need standalone web builder with good thumbnail feature

<p>I ask this after much searching and some trial downloads. For various reasons I prefer to work offline, and the builders I've tried have a limited thumbnail feature. I want some control of their size and arrangement, and would like to add some small text to each one. And of course I'd want to be able to click on them to get the larger version.</p>

<p>Any suggestions are welcome!</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>Give <a href="http://jalbum.net/en/"><strong>jalbum</strong></a> a try. Quite flexible. It renders thumbnail galleries using all sorts of available skins/templates, and you can park the resulting HTML and image output on pretty much any web server.</p>

<p>Seconding jAlbum.</p>

<p>Thanks to you both, quick replies!</p>

<p>This may be just what I'm looking for. I've downloaded and installed it and am getting acquainted. I like the thumbnail feature very much, it handles thumbnails better than anything I've seen. I can drag and drop new images to an existing set of images, and easily move them to the top or anywhere else in the array.</p>

<p>Haven't figure out how to do text yet, but that will come. Kind of late in the day for me to be thinking well, will get at it first thing in am. Odd I haven't heard of this or run across it before, and believe me I've done lots of Googling!</p>

<p>Thanks very much,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>Different "skins" (templates) handle text in different ways. You might have to hunt around to find one that does everything you want to, but there's bound to be something that meets your needs. Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks, Noreen, I'm back at it this am!</p>

<p>I'm a little stuck here at the beginning of my learning curve. Let me ask you a couple of questions then I'll try out their help forum and not bother you too much more.</p>

<p>One problem is that when I upload a preliminary (very) draft to my website, it ends up as a subfolder... however there are other subfolders from my previous web builder. How can I get rid of those?</p>

<p>Secondly, I can't seem to get a full-size window for JAlbum. I've set the Window size to maximum but it keeps loading as Normalized.</p>

<p>Finally, it seems terribly slow to load.</p>

<p>Can you suggest a good skin for photographs? There are so many to choose from... also, when I choose a skin can I switch skins later on without redoing the whole site? I would suspect not.</p>

<p>This should get me started, pretty elementary questions, I know.</p>

<p>Regards,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>Noreen,</p>

<p>Please ignore my first issue... I got rid of folders from my previous web builder program by using Filezilla.</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>I'm not sure I can help with the technical question (window size), Paul, I'm sorry to say! But I wonder if the slowness is caused by the size of the files you're working with. Also, with some (all?) skins I think you can control how many files pre-load. Manipulating that might speed things up.</p>

<p>The skin I've worked most with has been Galleria (for example [i made this for someone else's website]: <a href="http://www.naturalencountersbirdingtours.com/presentations/WildlifeOfPeru/album/index.html">http://www.naturalencountersbirdingtours.com/presentations/WildlifeOfPeru/album/index.html</a> ).</p>

<p>You can indeed use the same photos that you have placed in jAlbum and reconfigure them with a different skin. Start with just a few--maybe a half dozen--and play around with different skins for a while until you find something you like. If you know a bit of HTML, some can be customized further with text etc.</p>

<p>Thanks, Noreen,</p>

<p>Actually I found the answer to retaining full window, over in the Jalbum forum. The told me to go to Tools>Preference>General... there's a button to activate full window.</p>

<p>As for file size, I only have a few dozen and they're all 800x600 pixels.</p>

<p>Thanks for the tip on the Galeria skin, I'll check that out!</p>

<p>Regards,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>You're most welcome, Paul! I've just today upgraded to v. 11, so I am sure that I have new things to figure out as well.</p>

<p>Just as an alternative to JAlbum, you might want to have a look at <a href="http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/">Porta</a> - free, fast and very capable. Flexible too, if you know a little bit of HTML.</p>

<p>Nice results too:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/demo/mies/">HTML</a><br>

<a href="http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/demo/mies_simpleviewer/">SimpleViewer</a></p>

<p>Thanks, Keith, I checked out those links. Nice and clean, I like that. I don't know HTML but I suppose I could learn the basics.</p>

<p>Paul</p>