Help & FAQ's/Using Viewbook/Albums
New Album release FAQ
Rien
posted this on February 09, 2010 10:53 am
Important changes, what you need to know!
New Album editor
You can now edit the style of your Albums visually. Open you Album and choose the new 'Style album' tab at the top.
Album in Page editing
The styling of the Albums in your website pages is now independent from the styling of your individual full browser Albums. So each Album inside a Page has it’s own style settings; which you can edit in your Page.
Albums that open from Collections
Albums that are part of a Collection page, and that are opened IN your site (not full screen) can be edited with the 'Style album' button below the thumbnails in your Collection Page.
Albums that open full screen from your Collection Page, can be edited on the Album level.
Something changed, how can I bring it back?
We did our best to make the transition as smooth as possible by making sure your Albums look the same. Unfortunately for Albums inside your Pages there can be some small changes. Here's a list of changes we've received the past few days and how you can recover them.
Text display
The new Album displays text differently. Classic mode displays the text in your Album, the 'old' way. Including some other settings. You can find the classic mode under the Text heading, in the 'version' selectbox. You can choose 'New' and 'Classic' there.
Numbers (Album in Page only)
You can enable the numbers between the navigation arrows under the 'Advanced' tab of the styling panel.
Navigation / image alignment
You can now align your images to the left, center or right. This also moves the navigation arrows to the same position.
Any other changes? Mail us at support@viewbook.com.
New features and improvements:
- Visual styling, see your changes instantly
You can now edit the style of your Albums visually. Open you Album and choose the new 'Style album' tab at the top.
- New text display
A completely new optimized way to display the text. Including a new Album Title & description option (under the Settings button of your Album).
- Choice of (system)fonts
Choose any of the following fonts; Arial, Verdana, Courier, Georgia, Lucida, Palatino or Times. Now with support of special characters and foreign languages.
- HD size for large displays
When you enable 'HD images' in your album styling window and upload your images in at least 1920×1080 pixels, your images will be displayed in this size on large screens.
- More thumbnail sizes and thumbnail cropping
Choose between three thumbnail sizes, and cropping.
- Image alignment (left, center, right)
Align your images.
- More navigation options
You can now add the navigation arrows to the top, middle or botton.
- Advanced Option bar
Change the color of the options bar (Full album only) and enable / disable options like, share, download and full screen.
- Display of filename
Display the original filename at the bottom of the image.
- Disable frame margin album
For embedding you can disable the margins around the Album, so your Album can align exactly with your site.
- Disable and enable image transitions
Disable the fade between the images.
Comments
Hi, How can I duplicate the style of "album 1" into "album 2"?
thnks
Marco
thnks for answer
Marco
If I redirect an album web page to my album page so they play big,I cannot seem to add a back button to return me to the web page. Alternatively if I do not redirect my album page, but instead drag an album to the webpage how do I get the album to play large without having to inform people to use the fullscreen button. It is just on some of the example websites I have seen and also at jamesnader.co.uk when you click on his portfolio and then a link it opens in big pictures and there is a back button top left to the last page.I want to MIMIC this design but am getting frustrated because I cannot see any intuitive way to do it. Please help.....Andrew
Add ?p=1 at the end of your redirect link.
You can use a 'Collection' page format, then choose the 'Thumbnails' tab and enable 'Open albums full screen'.
This site has great potential, however i'm a little confused with it. I'm trying to work out how to create an album/portfolio of images which can be displayed full view, like many examples I have come across. Creating an album only seems to display a small slideshow of my images at approximately a 1/3rd of the uploaded sized images in my library. Please can you help?
Hello Herman. To open the individual full browser albums, just select one of the albums in your upper album source list and click 'Open' in the main toolbar. This will open the full browser album. You can set the images to HD and enable the full screen option under the album styling tab. Hope this helps! If you have more questions just create a support ticket and ask us anything!