The easiest way to add buttons and setup a stock photography site – Part 7
By Harry Kaplanian
April 10, 2004

Up to this point, keeping everything we have discussed in mind, adding many Stock Photographs to your web site and PayLoadz is still a tedious and long process. Everything we have discussed is useful and necessary, but it would be great if we could somehow automate the process of creating and adding the html purchase button code into our web site. It would be even greater if we could just generate the html for all those stock photos on our web site automatically. If we could just setup some sort of template and have some program generate everything for us.
Well, there is an application freely available that can do this for us. Its called JAlbum.
JAlbum was written by David Ekholm, Datadosen of Sweden and is available as freeware. With JAlbum, you can create a directory on your computer and arrange all your stock photography in as many subdirectories as you like. Once you have it all organized, startup JAlbum. You then specify the directory of your images, where you want the modified images to appear and a template (skin) from the list of templates that come with JAlbum. It will then create a new directory with index images and html files to display the images along with larger slides of your images along with watermarks and html files to display them as well! It even places photo information and navigation controls that work! It can even be configured to automatically place all the files on your website via FTP!
Be sure to spend some time browsing through the JAlbum web site.