# General Notes about the PBase Skin

This skin is based on the web galleries hosted at PBase.

This version includes a sample of styles, as based on those available to PBase members, and are named: alexc; athiker95; blackstandard; joshua; karen1109; tarheel; timmyg; webdev; wedding; and whitestandard.

## Customizing

Image Sizes
  The default slide image size was set to 600x400 for test, and thumbnails were also set to 120x120. There's no reason why you can't set these to whatever's suitable.
User Interface Settings
  A user can set the following values via the user interface panel. These values then become the default settings until replaced by values in 'props' files.
  If you save a jAlbum project file, these values are also saved.
meta.properties
  This skin makes good use of the meta.properties file. This is a text file with the following format.
  title=descriptive title of gallery
  description=fuller description of the contents
  iconFolder=image to be used for gallery
  keywords=list of keywords, separated by commas
  A title for the gallery will appear on the top of each index page and under any thumbnail/folder image for a sub-folder. The description will appear above the first set of navigation links. The iconFolder picks which image (which must be in the gallery directory) to use to represent that gallery in the parent index page, and defaults to folder.gif if left blank (a "blank" copy of this graphic is included in the /res folder for modification). The keywords value replaces that entered for the album on the user interface panel and is used by search engines.

Image Properties Files
  Each image can also have several definitions using general 'properties' files. See Using Properties Files for details.
Extended Comments
  If you have a matching comments file (e.g. newbychurch.txt for newbychurch.jpg) in a original image directory, any text in that file will be added as an extended comment.

## History

January 2004
  Version 2.0 released
  + properties files support for labels, comments and keywords
  + html METATAGS added
  + some reformatting in positioning of comments and EXIF data

August 2003
  Version 1 released
  basic conversion of styles used at PBase site.

## Credits

Original Theme & Images
  PBase
jAlbum Program
  David Ekholm
Conversion
  Laura Seabrook

| Version 2.0 -- 20 January 2004 |