Shashin

Shashin is a small utility that generates photo gallery webpages. It resizes and adjusts the resolution of the image files to be used and generates the HTML with user-specified styles. Basically Shahsin does the gruntwork with the images and basic page layout and leaves the page design up to the user.

Shashin is not a web page editor, so don't expect to find easy controls to change the background colour, or to add drop shadows. All that can be specified through the CSS tab (knowledge of CSS syntax required).

The word "Shashin" (pronounced sha-SHEE-n) is Japanese for "photograph". That's also how the Kanji (Chinese charactors) in the top left of this page and on the About tab say.

Here are some examples of webpages created with Shashin.

Here are some screenshots of Shashin in action.

To run Shashin 1.1 and above, you need the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, which is currently only available for the Microsoft Windows series of operating systems.

• Shashin 1.1 - coming soon!
• Shashin 1.0 - ZIP file 34 Kb.

Version 1.1

• Now Requires Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1
• No longer crashes when given invalid image file.
• Can create new folder when selecting image folder.
• Can add Back To link to webpage.
• BMP file filter added to Add Image dialog.
• More comprehansive error messages and handling.
• Bug fixes

Version 1.0

• Speed and memory performance improvements
• Fixed the content-type for XHTML 1.1 files
• Can now output XHTML 1.0 Transitional web pages
• Bug fixes

Version 0.6

• Enforced unique rule selectors and declaration properties in CSS
• Added tooltip help
• Option to overwrite output image files
• Improved memory performance
• Progress bar during page creation
• Ability to cancel page creation
• Bug fixes

Version 0.5

• css.xml and prefs.xml files now validated for correctness
• CSS and Advanced data can now be saved to file
• UI for changing CSS
• General UI improvements dealing with tabbing order and focus issues
• Bug fixes

Version 0.4

• Thumbnail View in image list
• Ability to change image positions, select all
• Reset now loads advanced settings and CSS from file
• Links to relative files on different drives now supported (for offline browsing)
• Image output directory can now be specified
• URLs now properly escaped
• Delete key now deletes images
• Tree for viewing CSS
• Bug fixes

Version 0.3

• CSS file chooser implemented
• Change Caption button implemented
• F2 now edits selected image caption
• css.xml nodes renamed to match CSS spec
• Implemented Max Image/Thumb Size (maintain aspect ratio)
• Advanced tab
• Can now generate XHTML 1.0 Strict pages
• User-specified language and character encoding
• User-specified meta-tags
• Advanced data stored in prefs file
• Include build, etc info in exe file properties
• Bug fixes

Version 0.2

• No more crashes!
• Custom width and height of image divs
• Valid XHTML 1.1 web pages created
• Snazzy program icon
• About links now work
• Images now 72 DPI
• Bug fixes

Version 0.1

• First version

Do you have questions, comments, suggestions or bug reports?

Email Chris Lyon: chris@cplyon.ca

This software is provided as is, and thus comes with no warrantees or guarantees of any kind. Download and run at your own risk. The developer takes no responsibility for any damage caused through the use of this product.