The aim of BINS is to generate static HTML photo albums. Some of the functionalities of BINS are: * album can contains other albums (sub albums): tree structure * generation of a thumbnail and of scaled images for each picture * generated album appearance is fully customizable by using HTML templates and configuration parameters * several description fields (date, location, etc...) can be associated with the pictures (in text or HTML format) * Exif information and Digital camera support: o use the EXIF data structure found on some image files (usually, those produced by digital cameras) to fill automatically some fields (date and time for example). o BINS use the Orientation EXIF tag (which is normally set when you rotate a image on you DigiCam) to rotate the picture to correct orientation. o For each image, a page provides all information available on the picture and the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. o All EXIF information is saved in the XML description file, preventing they disappear when the image is modified * customizable charset encoding for HTML generation, including UTF-8 (Unicode) support by default. Generation of the Apache .htaccess file for correct encoding charset in HTTP headers * generate valid HTML 4 code.