Understanding photo album styles
The Photo Album Wizard can create photo albums in a variety of styles. The choice of album style mainly affects how your full-size images will be displayed. The available styles and their specific options are described below.
Slide Show
The wizard inserts a table of thumbnails into the current document. When the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding full-size image is displayed, either in the current window (replacing the current document) or in a new window.
The Window drop-down menu determines where to display the full-size images. The choices are:
- Current window: The full-size image will open in the current window, replacing the document that contains the thumbnail table. Optionally, you can specify a named window or frame in which to open the image using the Target box. (For more information about targets, see “Setting a link’s target window or frame“.) If Add navigation links is selected, a set of “Previous”, “Next”, and “Up” links will be shown under the image. If Auto advance interval is selected, the full-size images will be automatically displayed one after another, starting with the image the user selects, with the specified number of seconds between images.
- Separate new windows: Each time the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding full-size image will open in its own new window. You can specify window settings, such as whether to show the browser’s menu, toolbar, and so on.
- One new window: The first time the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding image will open in a new window. If the user clicks another thumbnail, its image will open in the same window as the first image, replacing it. You can specify the window size and its settings, such as whether to show the browser’s menu, toolbar, and so on.
Multi-View
The wizard inserts a table of thumbnails and the first full-size image, below the thumbnail table, into the current document. When the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding full-size image replaces the one being displayed.
This style has no settings to configure.
Gallery
The wizard inserts a table containing the full-size images themselves into the current document. No thumbnails are generated.
This style has no settings to configure.
Frame Style 1, 2, 3 and 4
The wizard inserts an inline frame into the current document; this inline frame contains a frameset in which one frame (the smaller frame) is used to display thumbnails, and the other (larger) frame is used to display the full-size image. The larger frame initially displays the first full-size image. When the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding full-size image replaces the one being displayed in the larger frame. The four Frame Style styles differ only in the relative positions of the two frames; for example, Frame Style 1 puts the thumbnail frame on the left, while Frame Style 2 puts it on the right.
You can specify both the size of the inline frame (in pixels) and the relative sizes of the two frames inside it (in percentages). The default sizes are 800 x 800 pixels for the inline frame, 22% for the thumbnail frame, and 78% for the full-image frame. You can also specify whether the inline frame should display scrollbars always, never, or only when needed (auto).