Album thumbnails on My Albums page appearing cropped

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I'm trying to build a website using iWeb 08 and am using the My Albums feature to showcase samples of my work by type. However, for some reason the thumbnail that is being displayed for each album that I drag over from iPhoto is displaying only part of the first image in each album, rather than the whole thing. This is making the album page look pretty lousy. How can I amend it so that thumbnails feature an entire image, rather than just part of it? Thanks, Plockie.

The "My Albums" template should give you a preview of the photos when you "mouse over" the album.
At this time, it will only present landscape photos properly and not portrait.
To request this feature email ..
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html

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your pictures file names contain space , iweb albums/photos page use picture file names to create sub folder (inside Media folder), here is your media folder:
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Hi Y'all
I am using the Layered Paper template (iweb '09) for an artist's website and on the photo album page I add an album from iphoto with 3 vertical pictures and the "thumbnail" on the My Album page crops the vertical pix into a horizontal pix, cutting the top and bottom off the pix. On the actual album page all the pictures are working fine, no crop. All the pictures in this album are vertical. How can I deal with this?
Thanks for the help.

It's the nature of albums and the same for all themes. Nothing you can do that I know of. Send a feature request to the iWeb developers via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html.
OT

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Does anyone else with a "My Albums" page find that it takes a while to open it in iWeb. All my other pages open pretty fast except for that one.

The My Albums page is a slick looking way to present albums but, like the blog, it generates huge files.
The other problem is that your captions can't be read by spiders and you can't add descriptive text.
The Photos page is not quite so bad but still has the same problems.
Then you are stuck with the default slideshow.
For a site like yours I would have thought it would be better to have a page of thumbnails with "spider readable" captions and text which, when clicked, display a larger image.
This can be done the hard way by making a new page for every enlarged image using the thumbnails as links to open in a new window.
You can make life easier by grouping thumbnails to display more than one image per page which cuts down on the work involved.
I've been working on a site to show all this sort of stuff and I'll send you some examples later today when I get the flash version finished. This is way quicker to implement.
The site is not nearly finished and, like iwebformusicians.com, keeps growing, otherwise I would give the URL here.
The method of having a thumbnail, caption and product description with the option of a larger view seems to be the most successful and popular way to display items on commercial sites.
I am resisting the temptation to have the enlarged image appear on the same page as the thumbs as I find this to be slow, distracting and irritating on sites that have this arrangement.

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Is there any reason photos in an album page created in iweb display small on the iPad, but normally on an iMac? And videos on a movies page don't play on the iPad, but are OK on the iMac?

there are three displays in photos page:
1) thumbnails grid - smallest
2) deatial view and detail view slideshow - large
3a) pop-up slideshow - vary - this is slideshow.html
3b) or iphone/ipad slideshow phoneshow.html - iphone/ipad can't do pop-up
it's difficult to know which you refer to.
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instead look in phoneshow.html and change width and heigth of element id slideshow:
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position: relative;
width: 320px; /* this is default width */
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Thanks for the prompt reply Mr Old Toad. In fact, despite the title of "Album Page" seeming to be self explanatory (usually the case with Mac software & why I love it so much) and the software instructions which say "Drag photo and movie pages here to make them accessible from one place", this time I have discovered by messing around that you have to add a "photos" page while the Album page is selected on the left. You then drag the required images into the photo page (not the album page). Each additional photo page added appears on the Album page as it is added.
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Hi,
this sounds to me ridiculous. This has to be considered as bug, not limitation as I am allowed to put pictures in portrait to my "Pictures"-template site. How can I contact Apple regarding this issue as on their support page they seem to hide the way to contact them in case of troubles... Bad customer care Apple...
my 2 cents
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I'll start by saying that I've searched discussions and read the tutorials...and I'd prefer to fix this issue without resorting to codes/outside albums.
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Hold everything guys, and this is for Cedric, Roddy and Cyclosaurus and before I go any further I want you all to know how much I appreciate your assistance, and your patience with me.
The plot thickens...I previously started another thread with this question :
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I found out, during my trying to straighten this out, that I wound up with 2 accounts, lorrdon, which was marked as a soon - to - expire trial, and lorrdon1 which was marked as a paid account with almost a full year to go.
I had contact with billing support at .mac trying to sort it out and was told that I was now lorrdon and that I could not transfer data from one account to the other.
I sent them a strongly worded e-mail telling them I had to have this corrected and although I have not actually had a reply from billing support I just realized, a few moments ago, when I was trying to see the result of applying Cedric's last fix suggestion , which was :
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that I could access the webite either as lorrdon or lorrdon1 but that as lorrdon which now shows as the paid account and for which the Albums page was complete, and as lorrdon 1 where there was still an Album missing.
I'm wondering if billing support made the change I wanted and simply hasn't told me that directly.
I can login under either name, but if I login as lorrdon1 and then click on " Account details " the next window shows as lorrdon, not lorrdon1.
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I go into the Photos app and then go to my albums. I can see all of my albums there and can tap to view any of them. When done, I can tap "Albums" in the upper left corner and it returns me to the albums page, no problem. However, if I "pinch" to exit the album, it returns me to the album pages...then briefly "flashes". It didn't do that before the iOS 8 update and the 8.0.2 fix didn't fix the problem. What gives?

You can try resetting your iPad by simultaneously pressing and holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until you see the Apple Logo. This can take up to 15 seconds so be patient and don't release the buttons until the logo appears.
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OK dummy me - of course I can remove "Subscribe to" using inspector and switch off "Slideshow" as well.
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Web Galleries and new iWeb album pages

The new version of iWeb allows for "album" pages that serve as a collection of all the photo and mvies pages that are in a site. This is pretty slick, and allows one to re-order the photo pages exactly like one can re-order photos on one of the photo pages.
I am playing with web galleries, and notice that you can create a widget for a gallery for any iWeb page. When I do this on my album page, the widget shows up, but does not act like or interact with the other picture pages. It is simply a "widget" that sits on the page where it is placed. Has anyone figured out how to get a (link to a) gallery to act like one of the photo pages?
-=[doug]=-

I'm searching the forum for a solution to this too; web galleries look cheap next to the albums, and there's no reason for it. Short of changing all of my albums to galleries, here's my temporary solution, but it's a half-measure:
1) Drop a square on top of your .Mac Web Gallery widget that's just a bit larger than the widget.
2) Select the square, and in the Inspector, go to the Graphic Inspector, and under Stroke, select Picture Frame.
3) Select the frame that matches your album's format, then resize the square until it's just about the size of the widget, or provides the desired border width around the widget.
4) Move the square backward, behind the widget.
5) If desired, add a dummy album name beneath the gallery for visual continuity.
See my example here: http://www.vehphoto.com/sandrift/Photos/Photos.html
This worked for me because I'm using a white background and white frames; your mileage may vary depending on what theme and picture frames you're using. (I can't recall if I enabled additional frames in the Inspector as described in the Keynote forums - if a matching frame appears to be missing in the Inspector, let me know and I'll double-check this.)
Still, it's a sub-optimal solution, because 1) the widget cannot be resized 2) the widget still contains the gallery name, and 3) widgets cannot be rearranged the way albums can - they probably have to be segregated from albums.
I'll be posting feedback on this at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
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