Jalbum turtle skin#

Unfortunately, on mobile devices you can easily end up with an unusable album when you use the traditional вЂњIFRAMEвЂќ method. It alternates the left/right positions of the pictures and their captions. Zigzag is another example of an unusual layout.

Jalbum turtle skin#

This skin was also the first that allowed embedding custom pages (or any custom content) into the index page, which strenghtens the blog-like experience even further. Story is the first skin capable of playing with thumbnail sizes (thumbnail / wide / full), in order to create an intriguing blog-like experience. Mercury is special because it is capable of displaying lengthy text around images, not just below. This is useful when you just want to display a handful of pictures in an already-made web page. Responsive is the only one which can create a whole album inside a web page on-the-fly by utilizing Javascript. These skins are also the easiest to tweak, or to use as a base for creating a new skin. Athough they look similar, Atom features a fully-responsive layout, and has more options. If youвЂ™re after the simplest presentation, and the extra features are not important, you can choose a вЂњ minimalistic skinвЂќ, like Minimal or Atom. For single events it might be better to choose a lightbox-first skin that's built around the slideshow, although not as useful for navigating deeper folder structures. For complex, multi-level albums itвЂ™s wise to choose a robust skin with strong navigation support and search.

It boils down to what type of content you usually create. The good news is that we are planning on renewing Chameleon this year. I know this disappointed quite a few users. Development of the hugely popular Chameleon skin was halted a decade ago with no descendant. Tiger inherited most of the features, styles, and layout from Turtle. Once a skin gets to the point where its underlying technology gets hopelessly dated, we can either choose to rewrite the skin from the ground up, or to bring out a new skin that mimics the old one. This happened with Google Maps in 2017, for example, and with Facebook sharing after the 2016 US election. PayPal, Google Maps, and Facebook might no longer work these external services retire their old interfaces (APIвЂ™s) regularly. But even on desktops and laptops, you might have problems with integrations. Naturally, if you donвЂ™t care about mobile visitors, thereвЂ™s nothing wrong with old skins. But Flash no longer works in any current browser, so weвЂ™ve removed all of the Flash skins. Historically, there were also some Flash-based skins in our skin repository, like the once very popular Fotoplayer skin. Using a modern skin is not only important for the visitorsвЂ™ sake, but Google and other search engines give a higher rank to web pages that embrace modern standards. This is what sets Turtle apart from Tiger, for example. ThatвЂ™s why all new skins are based on responsive web design, which allows the album to adapt to the visitorвЂ™s device. These not only have smaller screens, but also donвЂ™t have a pointing device (i.e., a mouse), which might render old albums a pain to navigate.

Today more than 50 percent of site visitors use a mobile device. The single most important change of the past decade in web design is the rapid spread of mobile devices. However, times are changing, new devices appear with different screens and different capabilities, there are new standards, new browsers emerge, and those old albums become almost unusable on these new devices. It looks odd when the older albums use a different skin. I know itвЂ™s a pain changing the skin when you are building a large gallery and want to add new albums every now and then.