Introduction

FotoPlayer is a flash based web photo album software for sharing your photos online. FotoPlayer incorporates a lot of highly customizable and advanced features and helps you to publish your album with a smooth and rich presentation. The software is provided as a skin for the famous JAlbum photo album generator.

Technology used:

Software is based on,

• XML, an efficient and hassles easy way of storing and sharing the web data,

• Adobe FLASH (SWF), the most popular way to present dynamic , interactive and visually attractive web contents (with a reachable target of 97.3% web users without downloading the plugin) ,

• PHP, a widely used general purpose server side scripting language.

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Main features:

Some of the main features include built-in shopping cart system, RSS feeder, moderated guestbook, MP3 background music, full image navigation controls with slideshow and image pan and zoom tool,FLASH video player (SWF and FLV) etc. Checkout the feature section for the full list.

About this Help document:

v1.2 May 26, 2007.

This help document is designed to give you a comprehensive guide to know all the FotoPlayer (hereafter will be referred as FP) features, installation procedure and ways to customize your album to fit to your needs, FAQs and troubleshooting some general issues. You can download this help file as compiled HTML (CHM) files for offline references.

The screenshot in this guide are optimized and gray-scaled for faster downloading.

This help document was created under the following settings.

JAlbum v7.1.3

FotoPlayer v3.0

OS: Windows

JAlbum installed directory : E:\Program Files\JAlbum7

Image input directory: E:\fotoplayer_in

Image output directory: E:\fotoplayer_out

FTP Client: WS_FTP Pro

Browser: IE7

Download user guide:

Click here to download this online reference  in CHM format (Microsoft Compressed HTML Help).

Viewing chm format in other operating systems:

MAC users: http://chmox.sourceforge.net/ (free)

LINUX users:  http://xchm.sourceforge.net/ (free)

UNIX users: http://www.kchmviewer.net/ (free)

Important note:  This help guide is intended for FotoPlayer v3.0. You can download v2.0 userguide in CHM format from here and for previous versions please refer readme text files in the skin 'docs' folder.

OK... let's get started!