![]() ![]() If you click on the category folders in the left pane, the right pane will display sub-folders and image thumbnails. Your directory structure should now appear inside the Jalbum window in the left pane, with the main category folders displayed in the right pane, just like it would when you look at it through Windows Explorer or My Computer. Click the “Add” button at the bottom to let Jalbum look at your images. In our example above, once you double click on the folder, the “File Name:” box should read something like “D:\Samir’s Origami Portfolio” if you have kept it on the D: drive. Find the folder you prepared earlier, and double click on the folder without clicking on any files inside it. In that window you need to choose your main work folder for Jalbum to look at. Adding imagesĪ window that says “Add images or folders to the album” opens. Once it’s open, click on the “Add” button in the top bar (the one with the icon). You don’t need to sign-in to use the software the way we are going to. You can switch off the “Sign-In” box that opens by default to proceed. Let’s get started with creating your site. Just include whatever large version you have in the directories and Jalbum will take care of resizing everything down to an even size. ![]() You don’t need to worry about image sizes yet. Make sure all the images are rotated to be the right side up. And the project folder contains images that need to be displayed on a single page as part of that project (the JPG files in our example). The categories then have folders for each project, eg.- “Double Boat”. ![]() “Samir’s Origami Portfolio” is the main directory, which contains sub-directories that are the categories, “Origami Nature”, “Origami Boats” etc. For example, if you were trying to start a lucrative career in paper-folding, you could organise images of your work in this way: The way you can do this is by using folders on your computer. Every good portfolio needs some well selected and organised work to display and your first task is to organise the images of your work into categories and under specific projects for the Jalbum software to work on. Preparing Your Workīefore you proceed with creating the portfolio files you need to make some preparations. Barring major changes in future versions, this should all work as described here. This tutorial is based on Jalbum version 8.6. As long as you have some basic knowledge of using your particular system, this should be easy to follow. While I’m writing these instruction using a Windows computer, the instructions should still work for Linux or Mac. Jalbum is available on all major operating systems. If you don’t have the JAVA runtimes installed on your system (Jalbum will show you an error when you try to run it if you don’t have these), you will need to download and install the appropriate version from ![]() Once you download the file for this software, install it on your computer by running it. You point it to a directory containing images, adjust a few settings, and it will do all the hard work of resizing images, creating thumbnails, and creating the pages and the links between them. Jalbum is an automated HTML gallery creator. This is why you need to download Jalbum from The solution is to get your computer to do all the donkey’s work for us. That, combined with the time required to manually create thumbnails for the images, and make separate gallery pages for each project and section can be a cumbersome and repetitive process. The most time consuming part of creating an HTML portfolio is the process of resizing all the images down to an even format for your site. The difference is that I’m going to show you how to use software to automate all the difficult stuff. To create a web portfolio, you need to make a similar collection of HTML files for the pages and JPG images for your work. These work together to form the web site. What follows is a short cut, an easy way to get a very respectable looking HTML based portfolio to put on your own web space online, or to just give people on a CD, without any web design or programming skills.Īt a basic level, a website is a bunch of folders and sub-folders containing HTML files and JPG, GIF or PNG images. Learning HTML code to make a portfolio is not most people’s idea of fun, not to mention the efforts and adjustments involved in resizing and saving all your images into the proper formats for quick viewing online. A stumbling block most face when considering a web portfolio is that they are unfamiliar with the technologies involved. ![]()
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