# The Publish section

JAlbum has an integrated FTP and SFTP (secure ftp) client that makes publishing your album on a server a snap. JAlbum Attempts to speed up uploading by only uploading files with different sizes. You are able to fully continue using JAlbum during upload. Remember: You can use any other ftp client to publish your albums if you don't get along with this one.

You will need space on some web server in order to publish your album. If you don't have this already or don't know much about these things, JAlbum includes a wizard that helps you sign up for a web host account

- Create account... -Start the JAlbum web host signup wizard that makes it really easy to get a web hosting account with ftp access (unless you already have one) and have all ftp connection settings below automatically filled in.
- Accounts... -Open a popup window that allows you to add, remove and select among multiple FTP account profiles (settings). The profiles are automatically stored in the users' home directory
- FTP server -Host name of FTP server to upload album to, for example "ftp.myserver.com"
- Username -Username of FTP account
- Password -Password of FTP account
- Web directory -Directory under ftp directory that is web published (leave blank if same directory)
- Remote directory -Directory on FTP server where to upload album to. Note that the "Web directory" will be prepended to the remote directory
- Secure- Use secure (SSH2 based) ftp instead of ordinary ftp protocol.
- Passive mode -Use this switch if you are having trouble connecting through a firewall
- Save password -Store password in with JAlbum project. Currently not enabled - will store password if project is saved.
- Force UTF-8 -Force UTF-8 file name encoding nomatter what the server reports. This is helpful if you are having trouble uploading files with "foreign" characters like å ä ö
- Test connection -Attempt to log in and go to remote directory, will propose to create directory if not exists
- Always upload pages -Always upload html pages even if size of local file equals size of remote file, see "Smart upload" below
- Web root URL -URL to root of web site hosting the images. (For the preview link below)
- Preview link -Link that links you directly to the album on-site
- Upload all -Upload contents of output directory (the album) to FTP server
- Smart upload -Attempts to speed up uploading by only uploading files with different sizes

If you do not need the Preview link to work correctly, you can leave both that field and the Web directory field blank. In that case, put the entire path to the desired remote album directory into the Remote directory field