Quickie Web Albums 2.0 is an application for quickly transferring pictures to HTML formatted web pages. It allows the user options for formatting the HTML as the user sees fit. It creates not only an index page (with thumbnails for all the images), but also HTML pages for all of the images. This is a 45-day demo that can be unlocked at anytime by registering. For unregistered copies the days remaining is shown in the about window and on the splash screen at startup.
Macintosh System Requirements:
Quickie Web Albums 2.0 requires a PowerPC CPU running Mac OS version 8.0 or higher with QuickTime (with the still image module).
Windows System Requirements:
Quickie Web Albums 2.0 requires a Intel or compatible chip running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000 with QuickTime (with the still image, effect, authoring, 3D and internet extras modules).
Features added in version 2.0
[new] added fonts window for previewing and setting html fonts
[new] added html options window to set html page properties
[new] added JavaScript option to protect full size images by disabling right click
[new] added JavaScript option to show image in new window
[new] added JavaScript option to show image in a new html window
[new] added export options window.
[new] added preview for header and footer
[new] added preview for sample index page
[new] added navigation menu which mimics the picture order control pad.
[new] added new album option which removes all of the images in the current album
[new] added save album (combines the save image list and save layout) for registered users only.
[new] added load album (combines the load image list and load layout) for registered users only.
[change] import options are now added to the description at import instead of at create.
Quickie Web Albums 2.0 Features
This application includes the above features and following features:
Ñ The ability to import JPEG, GIF, BMP, PICT, or PNP pictures.
Ñ The ability to create just thumbnails for all the images.
Ñ Options for the height, border, and alignment for thumbnails.
Ñ Album tab that allows you to make Horizontal or Vertical templates.
Ñ Preview the picture's thumbnail (at size) while entering a description for that picture.
Ñ A common header or footer text area (allowing for text above or below the photo table) for each page.
Ñ Format the Font, Size, Alignment for the picture description, header line, and the footer line.
Ñ Border size selection for the table, thumbnail, or images.
Ñ Specify HTML page properties such as background image, colors for text and link, Meta tags.
Ñ Navigation Bar for rearranging the pictures to the desired order or remove unwanted pictures.
Ñ For the Registered user - The option to use a custom template. This allows the user to take a formatted web page, add a few comments to it, and use it as the template. No more hassles of copying tables.
Ñ Import options (file name, size, type, Created date, dimensions, and a custom field).
Ñ For the Registered user - The Ability to save the Album and load albums.
Ñ For the Registered user - The option of showing the Created by logo at the bottom of each page.
Ñ For the Registered user - The Ability to use a custom template.
Ñ For the Registered user - No time limit.
How to Register Quickie
Either Visit http://www.joyenvironmental.com/lajdesign/ or select Register online from the online menu within Quickie. LAJ Design uses Kagi for its payments. Once you buy from them, LAJ Design will email your Serial Number. You can enter the serial number by either opening the about Quickie window (under the apple menu) and choosing register. Or by choosing the enter code button when quickie starts up. Make sure and type the name and serial number exactly as shown (it is case sensitive). LAJ Design gets a list of all the new licensees and is responsible for any required support. Send any Support requests to mailto:lajdesign@mac.com. This program has been tested on MacOS 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0.4, 10.1.2 and on Windows 95, 98, and NT
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How to use Quickie
With Quickie it only takes three steps to create a web photo album
1. Add the images that you want to include.
2. Select an output folder
3. Click the create button
To add an individual image or a folder of images (Step 1)
To add an individual image or a folder of images, click the add images" button. This will bring up the import window. By this window you can import individual images or folders or images and set there import options. Import options allow you to put the images name, size, and type, under the description.
To select an output folder (Step 2)
The output folder will be where the outputted web album will be located. It will include all of the required file (the HTML files, the images, and the thumbnails).To select an output folder, click the output folder "Select" button. This will give you a folder browse window and then select the folder to output to.
To create the HTML Photo Album (Step 3)
Click the "Create" Button
All of the other options are not required, but are there for greater control with your HTML. See the help within Quickie for other options.
To select the album type
The Album tab allows you to select from three types of albums: regular, vertical, or horizontal. The regular album is the default. Vertical albums create a page with the thumbnails in a frame down the right side of the page and the current image in the middle to left side of the page. Horizontal albums create a page with the thumbnails in a frame at the bottom of the page and the current image in the rest of the page. For Vertical and Horizontal you are given the option to show the frame border, what size border, to have scroll bars, to use the maximum dimensions or to enter a value for the height and width for the thumbnail frame.
The frame border is the little bar that separates the current image from the thumbnails at the bottom or side. If you set it to 0 it will not be shown, you can also just select not to show it. The scroll bars put scroll bars on the right and bottom of the screen. If the image is larger than the screen it is a good idea to turn these on. The maximum height will calculate the maximum height or width for the thumbnail frame. You can also enter a number for the height or width.
Adding a description for each image
You can add a description for each image by entering text into the field on the order tab. This text will be applied to the image whose thumbnail is shown and whose line is selected from all the image names. The text will be added when you do one of three things.
1. Click the refresh button
2. Click the next button (the next picture will be shown)
3. Click the previous button (the previous picture will be shown)
After doing any of the above the text description will appear next to the image name on the Image List.
To Move out of Order
You can move to another image by double clicking in the Image list on the image that you want to see.
Format the Text description for each image
To format the description for each image, select the options that you want. These will be applied to all of the images for a uniform look and feel.
Formatting Options (Available for image description, header, and footer areas)
1. Bold
2. Italic
3. Underlined
4. Font - HTML can use groups of fonts. The default uses the system font.
5. Align - This is the alignment of the text. If none is selected it is not specified in the HTML.
6. Format - This is the HTML Format feature. Paragraph is the default, Heading 1 is the largest, and Heading 6 is the smallest.
7. Size - This can be relative size (example +1 is one size greater that the default) or absolute size (example 6 is a size six font) to set a more exact size than what format allows.
Picture Order Control Pad Features
The picture order control pad allows you to move around images in the image list, delete images from the list, refresh the image list, or move to the next/previous image. To remove an image, select the image from the Image list and click the remove button (X). To remove all of the images from the list hold shift down and click the remove button. To move an image up or down, select the image from the image list and click either the move up or move down buttons (up or down arrow). To move an image to the top of the list, hold down shift and click the up arrow. To move an image to the bottom of the image list, hold down shift and click the down arrow. To view the next or previous picture, click the next or previous arrows (right or left arrow). To preview the first image hold down shift and click the left button. To Preview the last image hold down shift and click the right button. The arrow keys on the keyboard are linked to the corresponding control pad arrow. Meaning that clicking the up key is the same as clicking the up button on the control pad.
Header/Footer Options
The header and footer areas provide the option of text that will go either above, below, or both above and below the photo table. The header will give you text above the Table and the footer below. Both have the same formatting options as the Image description text.
Image Options
The image options are located under the Images tab. You can choose how many images should go on each row (with 2 the default). You can select a border for table, image, thumbnail, or for all three. You can choose the thumbnail color depth output with high being 32 bit, medium being 16 bit and low being 8 bit (color depth option is not available for windows). And you can choose the Alignment for the thumbnail images. At the bottom of this page you will notice some information about the current selected image from the image list.
Page Properties
The Page Properties window allows you to set options for the page such as a background image, a background color, description tags, keyword tags, and colors for text, links, visited links, and active links. To choose a background color, click the background image select button and browse to the picture. The picture will show up under the text, link, visited link, or active link text. If the image is greater than the box, only the portion seen will be shown. If the image is smaller, the images will be tiled. If no image is found a dialog box will appear saying "Not an image file" and then you will be asked to choose again. In this case your picture is not really a picture or Quickie cannot import your file type. To set color for any of the other page properties, click the Select color button and choose your color. The text to the right and color box to the left will change to the color that you have chosen. Notice that if you choose a background color and have a background image, the background image will be shown. This is done because web browser will show the image even if a background color is also select. To remove a background image, click the remove button.
Additional Options
Additional options are listed under the options tab. You can enter a title for all the pages. The individual pages will take this title and add image X of X to the end. Lastly you can choose where to display the navigation bar (these are the arrow images that are shown on the individual pages). You can choose above, below or not shown. For the navigation bar you can also choose the design of the arrows.
To create just thumbnails of the images and no HTML, Click the "Create Thumbnails only" button under the images tab.
JavaScript Options
There are basically three JavaScript options.
1. Open images in a new window
2. Open images in a new html window
3. Protect images
Open images in a new window, will open a new browser window with just the image when you click on the images thumbnail.
Open images in a new html window will open a new browser window with the html page for that individual image.
Three allows basic image protection. The user will not be able to right click to save the image. This is basic protection using JavaScript and dues not work if JavaScript is turned off or on certain platforms such as Macintosh.
Export Options
The Export options window allows you to choose the image export options, choose to span the index page, and/or choose to rename the index file. Under the image export options, you can choose to export all the images as jpegs or to have the exported images keep their current file type. The index page is the HTML page that shows all the thumbnails for the images. You can choose to have the thumbnails spanned over several pages (to show fewer images per page). Just choose how many image rows to have per index page (the number of images that this corresponds to will be shown on the line below). Lastly you can choose to rename the index file a different name.
Lastly, you have the option of where to show the description for each image. You can choose to show the image on just the index page(s) or on the individual image page(s) or show the description on both. This is the default setting.
Help
To use the quickie help select help from the help menu. This will give you a list of topics on the left side of the help window. For the topic of interest, just click on it and the information for that topic will be shown.
Quick Start
The quick Start is there as a brief introduction to Quickie for new users. It also has some tips and hints for more advanced users. The Quick Start window can be accessed by selecting Quick Start from the help menu.
Options to registered users
Registered users get three extra options.
1. The ability to use custom templates.
2. The ability to save the current album and load other albums.
3. The ability to show or not show the Quickie logo at the bottom of each page.
4. No expiration time period.
To use a custom template
Open the HTML template that you wish to use. Insert the following comments exactly as shown. The QuickieTitle should go between <title> and </title>. The QuickieHead tag goes after the </title> and before the </head> tag. The QuickieBody goes between the <body> and </body> tags. The QuickieHeader goes where you want the header text to go. The QuickieTable goes where you want the image table to fit. The QuickieFooter goes where you want the footer text to go. The QuickieBody is used in the basic.HTML file and is not required for the custom template.
<!--QuickieTitle -->
<!--QuickieHead-->
<!-QuickieBody -->
<!--QuickieHeader-->
<!--QuickieTable -->
<!--QuickieFooter-->
After placing all of the comments save the file. Then check the custom button from the options tab. This will prompt you to locate the file. This option is not available for non-registered users.
Below is what you need to make a custom template (show as a sample custom page) and then a description about each tag is given.
<HTML>
<head>
<title><!--QuickieTitle --></title>
<!--QuickieHead -->
</head>
<Body>
<!--QuickieBody -->
<!--QuickieHeader-->
<!--QuickieTable -->
<!--QuickieFooter-->
</body>
</HTML>
Description for each Tag
<!--QuickieTitle --> defines where the title goes
<!--QuickieHead --> defines where meta tags go
<!--QuickieBody --> Defines where the body starts
<!--QuickieHeader--> Defines the header area(the text area above the image table).
<!--QuickieTable --> Defines where the image table needs to go.
<!--QuickieFooter--> Defines the Footer area (the text area below the image table).
Save the Current Album
To save the current Album, select File then "Save Album". This will let you add an album name and will allow you to choose where to save the album list. This list saves a reference to all the images in an album, and all of the current settings. This option is only available to registered users.
Note: When you save an album you do not have to have any images loaded. This is how you can save and load different settings.
Load an Album
To load a different Album, select File then "Load Album". You will be prompted to select the Album that you want to load. This option is only available to registered users.
Show the Quickie Created image option
Registered users have the option of showing or not showing the Quickie Created image at the bottom of all the outputted pages. Choose "Yes" or "No" from the pulldown menu next to "Show Quickie Logo" under the options tab.
How to contact LAJ Design:
Email: mailto:lajdesign@mac.com
For more information about LAJ Design, visit their website at http://www.joyenvironmental.com/lajdesign/
