About Flash Album Generator 2

Ever wanted to have a nifty flash gallery for all your photos? With the Flash Album Generator 2 you can do that quickly and easy! This extension will resize your photos with Fireworks, create thumbnails and put them in an amazing Flash Album. The album is generated from Dreamweaver within a few clicks! All your photo's will be displayed online instantly in a cool Flash Photo Viewer that is customizable to your site design.

Note: You need Fireworks to use this extension

Features

• Integrated in Dreamweaver;
  • interactive dialog in Dreamweaver with all the options you'll need;
    

• an inline property inspector so that you can easily change visual options later on
  

• Live preview in Dreamweaver:
  • With a single click on the preview button in DW you can see within Dreamweaver itself how your photo album will look like and navigate within the photos!

• Cool transition effects and easy navigation
  • Navigation within the photo album has never being easier
• Automatically generated thumbnails
  • Auto generate your thumbnails with the right size and crop them if needed
• Automatically generates and edits photos XML file
  • The extension creates the photo album XML file for you! No need to dig in a difficult XML format everything is completely visual now
• Images are automatically scaled in the Flash viewer
  • The Flash Viewer is using a smart imaging technique so that your images always fit in the display
• Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained

• Extended viewer properties
  • Adjust the viewer to fit your needs and site layout. You can set number of options like title of the gallery, text color, frame color and width as well layout and navigation

What's new in Flash Album Generator Version 2

All the great features from version 1 of the extension, like the DW integration and the rich set of gallery options stay the same.

We have build in our own Flash Gallery Viewer and no longer use the Simple Viewer included with the previous version.

This allows us to provide you with a new rich set of options without requiring any additional products! Everything is now integrated in one extension.

The new Flash Gallery Viewer from DMXzone includes the following new features:

• Gallery images are loaded on demand

This is a huge difference between the old and the new version as the old version always loaded the full gallery even if the user just viewed a few photos. Now everything is loaded on demand with a nice progress.

• Gallery images and thumbnails are better aligned

It is much easier now to align your images and thumbnails by just specifying how much space the main image takes from the viewer – the rest is calculated automatically.

• Gallery and image titles are now displayed much better

The gallery title is now always on the top side of your main image in the viewer and the image title is always below it.

• rich set of image transitions

Now you can choose from 12 different image effects for the transitions between the photos. You can also choose to use them all by selecting the random option.

• more options for the thumbnails view

You can customize the thumbnails even further with more colors to suit your design.

• smart thumbnails strip

The thumbnails layout has been improved so they fit the available space.

• extended error checking and reporting

Now when something is wrong with your xml or if images are missing on your server you get much better and more user friendly error messages.

• an easy conversion from the previous version

We provide a new command in DW so that you can easily convert your old galleries to the new version. Just run the "Convert Flash Album 1 to 2" command and you are ready!

• Rich Property Inspector for Dreamweaver

The property inspector in Dreamweaver now offers a richer set of options so that you can customize you gallery after it is generated so it fits your site perfectly.