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For each and every page in a site, Showkase creates a folder in the root Showkase directory (with the same name as the page itself) and inside each page's folder is a file named 'index.html'.

If you wanted to change the on-screen text in the menu for a certain page name, then you would need to edit all the 'index.html' pages in all the page folders (as the menu is included in every page).

Again, please note that as soon as you update a page within the Showkase interface, the edit will be lost.

It might be easier just to try to give each Showkase page a unique name.

I was composing my response to your first post as you posted your second one (hence no reference to your &nbps; suggestion).
This will not work.

As you have discovered, Showkase strips out non-alpha-numerical characters when using the name for the folder on your web server but escapes XML entites in the name so that it is displayed exactly as you see it in the input text field.
What you were seeing when you thought it was working was likely to be either a page which had not yet been updated and published or a older version of your page cached by your browser.

My suggestion to manually edit the HTML page created by Showkase after it has been published still stands as a possible workaround.

Please see 'Editing Individual Captions' in the Pages section of the Showkase User Guide for details on how to extract the image's IPTC title and description.

If entering IPTC data via Adobe Photoshop, {iptctitle} corresponds to the IPTC 'Document Title' field and {iptcdescription} corresponds to the IPTC 'Description' field.

You can add a custom favicon by opening your Showkase theme's 'layout.tpl' file (e.g. 'showkase/_themes/kosel/pagetypes/layout.tpl') in a plain text editor and adding the following code immediately before the closing </head> tag.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Make sure that your chosen 'favicon.ico' file is in the correct location on your web server and that the path to it is correct in the code above. (The code above will work for a 'favicon.ico' file in your web space's root directory.)

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the current version of Juicebox (v1.3.3) whereby a link in a Gallery Title will not be active if the Gallery Title is positioned on the image overlay.
We have already addressed this issue and it will be fixed in the next version of Juicebox.
In the meantime, the workaround would be to set galleryPosition="TOP" (in the 'General' section).

In order for the link in the Gallery Title to open in the same tab/window (rather than a new tab/window) use the target="_self" attribute in the <a> tag. For example:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" target="_self">Click here</a>

It is not possible to rename image files within the Showkase interface for a gallery which has already been created.

Perhaps the best course of action would be to use the SEO functionality available in Juicebox-Pro galleries.
You can assign image titles and/or captions to individual images and then:
(1) Set captionPosition="NONE" (in the 'Pro -> Caption' section of the Juicebox gallery page) so that the titles and captions are not visible in the gallery.
(2) Select the Add SEO Content checkbox (in the 'Gallery Lite Options' section of the Juicebox gallery page).

The image titles and captions will not be visible in the gallery but they will be used in the SEO code on the gallery's HTML page in the following form.

<img title="image_title" alt="image_caption" src="/showkase/gallery/images/image.jpg">

By default, the Showkase menu changes when the user's browser window becomes narrow (or on a mobile device where the screen width is already limited).
In Boma, the menu moves from side to top and in Kosel, it auto-hides under a menu icon. (This is designed to use the limited available space on small screens as best as possible.)
This behavior cannot be changed in the Showkase interface and may be difficult to change in the source code (with each theme and page-type needing to be considered).

If you want your Juicebox-Pro galleries to look the same in desktop browsers and on mobile devices, you can force the galleries to be displayed in Large Screen Mode by setting Screen Mode to LARGE in the 'General' section of the gallery settings page.
For more information about how Juicebox adapts to different devices and screen sizes, please see here.

What exactly happened to your site?
Were files deleted? Were Showkase pages changed? Do you have any other files on your web space (not related to Showkase) that were affected in some way?
Without knowing all the details, it is difficult to know exactly what happened.

It is possible that it was your web hosting account itself (rather than your Showkase site specifically) that was compromised.
If this is the case, then it is possible that other sites on the same web host were also affected. You could try contacting your web host to ask them if there was a recent security breach (though they may be reluctant to divulge such information if they did experience such a problem).

The best advice I can give is to use strong passwords (long passwords with a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation) and that you use a different password for each and every service you use.

Even if a password is stored on a web server in an encrypted form, there is a possibility that it can be discovered if it is just a common word. For example, if your password for a service is 'Password1' and it is stored on a web server as a SHA1 hash, then if someone somehow got hold of this hashed password (which in itself may not be easy), all they would see is the text '70ccd9007338d6d81dd3b6271621b9cf9a97ea00'. However, because 'Password1' is a very weak password and is probably used quite often, there is a record of its hashes on the internet (see Rainbow tables for more information) and a simple web search of '70ccd9007338d6d81dd3b6271621b9cf9a97ea00' reveals that it is the SHA1 hash for the text 'Password1'. The more obscure your password is, the less likely it is that the internet will have a record of its hash (and that it can be found on Google) and the less likely it is to be discovered by a brute-force attack.

I do not know how your web host handles the storing of its own passwords but Showkase uses a more secure method than just hashing a password. A salt is also used so I think it is very unlikely that someone discovered your Showkase password and hacked your web site this way.

@iblauw

After uploading images for a gallery, go to the 'Images' tab, scroll down to the bottom of the page, select the 'Select all captions' checkbox, enter {file} in the 'Set selected to:' text field and click the 'Set' button.
This will set all image captions to be the filenames.

Please see the 'Editing Individual Captions' section in the Pages Menu support section for further details of other special codes which can be used for the image titles and captions.

By default, all browsers cache web pages unless otherwise specified (by the browser settings or the web page).
Showkase pages do not inlcude any code to influence the browser's decision as to whether or not the pages should be cached.
If you make any changes to your web page whilst your browser is still open, you may need to clear your browser's cache before reloading your web page to see the changes you have made.

Browsers usually do not cache between sessions (the opening and closing of a browser window being a session) so users who view your web site are unlikely to experience any caching issues. Each time they open a browser to view your web site, the browser should fetch the most recent files from your web server.

Are you using a 3G connection? If so, please see this FAQ:
Why can't I view my gallery on a 3G mobile connection?

A solution to this problem would be to create an .htaccess file containing the following code and upload it to your website's root directory. (Please note that this requires an Apache web server.)

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Cache-Control "no-transform"
</IfModule>

This should prevent content modification on your site when visitors view your galleries over a 3G connection.

You could also contact your 3G provider to see if it is possible for content modification to be turned off on your account (although this will help only when you view other people's galleries and will not solve the problem of other people viewing your own galleries over their own 3G connections, which the solution above tackles).

If this is not the problem and your gallery still does not display, then it is possible that the browser is timing out whilst fetching the gallery files from your web server. Try contacting your web host to see if they can increase the connection time out limit.

I'm glad everything is working as it should.
Thank you for posting back to let me know.

This is perfectly normal and is how Showkase works.
Each and every page you create in Showkase (including the page you choose to use as your home page) is given its own folder (in your root Showkase directory) and you can view each page by going to the 'index.html' page within the folder. (This is what happens when clicking a link in a page's menu.)
When a user navigates to the Showkase root directory itself, the 'index.php' file there displays the page you have chosen to use as your home page (the page with the lowest 'Nav Order'). (The home page is not actually duplicated. It is the content from the home page folder's 'index.html' file which is being displayed.)
In doing so, it is possible to quickly and easily change the home page in a Showkase installation without the need to restructure the entire web site.