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*                      BluPlusPlus  -  JAlbum Skin                       *
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*                     Version 3.8  January 27, 2006                      *
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*                By: Armond Avanes (Armond555[at]yahoo.com)              *
*                   http://bluplusplus.armondavanes.com                  *
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Table Of Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Known Problems/Issues
3. Credits
4. Contact Information



1. Introduction
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BluPlusPlus is one of the most popular JAlbum skins. It is fully documented
with great details and examples, and is highly configurable with an
extremely friendly and intuitive user interface. Movies (any type), custom
frames (with preview), voice/music annotations, comments, and viewer remarks
among the features this skin supports. It comes with over a dozen themes,
multiple icon sets and an elegant frame collection. There is a large and
active user community to help with any questions and to provide quick and
knowledgeable support.

Please refer to UserGuide.txt document or hints.jap file for a very brief
explanation on configuring BluPlusPlus. Complete documentation for the
current version of BPP is available at the following address and highly
recommended:
http://bluplusplus.armondavanes.com/docs.html
Usage, applications, definitions, FAQs along with numerous examples are
included. The site can also be easily reached through the "About" tab on
the BPP user interface in JAlbum.

NOTE: The minimum JAlbum version this skin needs is v6.0.



2. Known Problems/Issues
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- You may want to turn the "Write UTF-8" feature OFF if generating albums for
  older browsers such as NetScape 4.xx (as they're mostly getting into problem).
- If you get into problems with SlideShow feature (actually it stops progressing 
  after one slide) while you're offline, you should have the "URL-encode links" 
  option OFF while generating your album.
- If you have the previous versions of this skin, it's recommended not to decompress
  this bundle on those ones. As there may have been structure changes, and having
  this version mixed with the previous ones all in one location, may cause some
  problems for you.
  Also it's strongly recommended to clean the content of "res" folder at your
  generated album if you're going to use a new version of the skin for the first
  time on that album.

NOTE: More frequently asked questions, and how to address the, can be found on FAQ
      part of the documentation site (see address above).



3. Special Credits
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Great thanks go to the following authors that I've got some from their works:
- "Blu" skin by John S. Reque
- "BluNDL" skin by Alexander Tsvyashchenko
- "Clean" skin by Sergio Feria
- "BC" skin by Óscar Jiménez Ribera
- "Aqua Fusion" icons by Daniel Flax & Markus Mueller
  (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4815)
- BluPlusPlus full set of documentation by Robert Camner
- "Universal" & "Dark-Matte" set of action icons modified & optimized by
  Robert Camner
- Great frame designs and contributions by Jens Troeger and Gordon Dodge
- "Black" & "White" set of action icons contributed by Georg (Shorshe)
- Keyboard Navigation Support by Dan Stefanescu

Also brilliant thanks go to "Marlon", my really great friend, who gave me his invaluable 
feedbacks and helped me a lot to fix many incompatibility problems with older browsers.
Robert Camner, Al Geddis and Gordon Dodge, the documentation team, for their invaluable
helps on documentation of BluPlusPlus :-) Robert! You're doing an outstanding job there!
Many thanks and great credits go to Valentino Ciciarelli and Nick A. Carter for all their
great efforts, feedbacks, code contributions.
And all others who encouraged me, helped me and provided their nice feedbacks.
Finally to "David Ekholm", author of JAlbum for providing such a great digital
album solution.



4. Contact Information
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You can contact me directly at :
- Armond555[at]yahoo.com

Also you can find the latest information, releases and documentations at the 
following address :
http://bluplusplus.armondavanes.com  (HOME)
http://bluplusplus.armondavanes.com/docs.html  (Documentation)

If you have any BluPlusPlus resource sets (icon sets, frame packs, styles or whatever)
to share with others, any new features or enhancements to request or any bugs and issues
to report, you can go to the following forum provided to cover different needs :
http://jalbum.net/forum/forum.jspa?forumID=16

As always, you're very welcome to directly contact me for whatever BluPlusPlus related
issues!

BluPlusPlus is downloadable from the following site too :
http://jrepository.engblom.org/
You can even rate it there if you want ;-)



		*** Thanks for trying BluPlusPlus ;-) ***
