Web Album 1.0

Web Album is a program that will create a web based photo album from a collection of digital images. It effectively scans all your directories from a user selected root directory creating thumbnail representations of your photos, templates for captions of every photo and finally web pages that include your thumb nails with captions and links to the original photos. Also web pages for intermediate directories will be generated containing links to their sub directories.

As an example I have included some photos which you can access here.

The following screen shots show the rather simple user interface. It is a small specialized program. I wrote it to fill a particular need I had and because other programs I found on the web did not exactly fill my needs.

Some screen shots

Downloading and running WebAlbum - the easy way

• Step 1 Read the Read Me

• Step 2 Follow the instructions

Downloading and running Web Album - the harder way

• Step 1. Download the The Web Album Java jar file into a new folder

• Step 2. Make sure you have at least version 1.2 of Java (JRE or SDK) installed

  In a command window enter:

  java -version

  Make sure the response indicates that the version is greater than or equal to version 1.2

• Step 3. Run Web Album

  In a command window go to the directory in which you have saved the album.jar file and enter:

  java -Xmx256000000 -jar album.jar

  You can also append a directory path if you wish, e.g.

  java -Xmx256000000 -jar album.jar /stuff/photos

  Most people make a batch or script file to do this. Here is one for Windows. Download it into the same directory as the jar file and if desired make a shortcut of it on the desk top.

Bugs, feature requests and modification history

Known bugs

• Excessive memory consumption when generating thumbnails
• Splash screen needs to be displayed for a minimum time

Feature requests

• scaled image prefix ui option
• Initial global blurb file
• Individual page description files
• Check to see if more information can be extracted from the jpeg files

Completed tasks

• 21-9-01 Rob. JRE 1.4 directory lists were not sorted. Now explicitly sort directories w.r.t. their name.
• 23-5-01 Rob. user's name and email entries ui option
• 9-5-01 Rob. Save/load the options settings to/from a preferences file
• 9-5-01 Rob. JPEG quality adjustment
• 18-4-01 Rob. Annotate each photo with it's creation date if data can't be extracted from jpeg file
• 19-4-01 Rob. Control files for picture comments
• 21-4-01 Rob. All options that are now static variables need to be adjustable by the user in the GUI

Source Code

You are welcome to have the source code to Web-Album. There is no licence or guarantee associated with this program. All I ask is if you develop further enhancements is that you consider giving me access to them so that I can add them into the next version.