jAlbum is appreciated by both collectors, nature photographers and for making product presentations. Many of our users maintain many or large galleries with thousands of images and hundreds of folders. With improved ordering, navigation and Multi Maker, this release focuses on the needs of power users who maintain large galleries and many projects. Version 1.0 launches with 20 styles, including 14 that echo Chameleon's most popular designs. This includes search, tag cloud, shopping cart, feedback, maps, social sharing tools, and custom pages. Lizard boasts a robust feature set, building upon what you know from other jAlbum skins: Tiger, Photoblogger, or Story. It offers such an extensive control over the design none of the skins offered before, and guesses the missing pieces intelligently. Unlike Chameleon, Lizard leverages CSS styles for graphic effects (drop shadows, shiny buttons) creating a smoother, more flexible experience. Welcome retro! After all, nothing is wrong with drop shadows, shiny buttons, and rounded corners. With this skin, you can easily rebuild your old albums or create completely new, retro-style albums. This skin is already built on such foundations that it can make albums for any device, whether it has a small or large screen, controlled by a mouse or a finger. Still, the look of it should be immediately familiar to everyone who has used Chameleon before. We didn't call this new skin Chameleon, since it had to be rewritten from the ground up, and can't mimic its predecessor in every detail. Remember Chameleon, which was once our most popular skin, characterized by grid-style layout, and skeuomorphic buttons? (Means: mimicking real-life objects.) This new skin was created to fill the void left by Chameleon after we stopped developing it because its architecture no longer suited modern devices and browsers. This week we've released our once most favored, Chameleon skin's successor, Lizard. Windows computer in Ohio with 1Gbps symmetric internet connection If it is well received, we may open up hubs in other locations.ġ. We can always switch you back if you encounter issues or is having second thoughts. Click it and you'll get the option of moving your storage. If you want to switch, sign in to and go to your Settings tab. If you are in North America, the one in the US should be faster. I have uploaded the Sample Project album with some videos added to both our storage in Europe/Sweden and to the new one in US/N. But your viewers might have a quick connection and would benefit. If you have a slow internet connection, then that will probably be the bottleneck so the location won't matter. When viewing the album, complete page loads are about 30% quicker. We have run some tests and for a user in east USA with a fast internet connection 1 uploading an album with many large files, like videos or large originals, the upload speed is about 3 times faster! Even for an album with only small files the new US hub is about 40% quicker than uploading to Sweden, if you are in the US.

Since we now are completely 'in the cloud' we can change this, so we have now opened a storage hub in the US, specifically in Northern Virginia! If you and most of your viewers are located in North America you will benefit from having your files here instead of in Europe. It has however worked so well that most of you haven't been bothered by this. It takes about 100ms (on a good day) for the data packets to cross the Atlantic Ocean so uploads can be slow and viewing the albums can be a bit sluggish. If that's you, having your files in Europe isn't optimal. But we have many customers outside Europe too, and especially in the US. This is good for most of our users, since most of our customers are in Europe. If you are using our storage ( Premium, Power or Super) your files have always been on servers located in Sweden. TL DR You can now have your albums hosted in the US if using jAlbum storage.

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