If you're like me, you have a digital camera and a bunch of folders on your PC with lots -- lots -- of pictures. Wouldn't it be nice to publish those to the web and have the folders displayed automatically as a slide-show or as a photo-album?

Three modes of viewing a folder are supported by new BadBlue 2.5:

4 Traditional file details view
4 Slide-show view
4 Photo-album (thumbnails view)

Even better, you can now define in which view a folder appears. Say you've got a folder with 200 photos in it. You can now configure BadBlue to depict the folder in slide-show view automatically.

Automatically displaying a folder as a Slideshow or Album

Click on Manage >> Setup folders tab and scroll to the bottom of the page where the "Auto photo album view" setting appears. You can select a view (slide-show, photo-album or traditional file listing) and a "threshhold". The threshhold is a percentage of files in the folder that are pictures (JPG's).

If the user opens a folder that contains only Word documents, a conventional file details listing will be displayed. However, if a user opens a folder that contains 99% JPG's, then the threshhold percentage will be exceeded and the selected "Auto photo album view" will appear. By default the settings are:

4 Auto photo album view: Slide-show
4 Auto threshhold percent: 50%

So, by default, if more than half of the files in a folder are pictures then the folder will be displayed in slide-show format. By changing the "Auto photo album view" to "Thumbnail index", users will see the folder in an "album" format with rows of clickable, thumbnail images.

Or, if a file details listing is always desired, no matter how many pictures are in the folder, then the "Auto photo album view" can be set to "No". A user clicking on any folder will then see it in the traditional listing -- or file details -- format.

Next steps: Get a special offer on BadBlue Enterprise Edition.