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Gallery creates DYNAMIC pages - Version: 1.4.1, 6/13/2004 02:39PM PST
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eobrien
True, Gallery is not an application that you double-click and run on your computer. And it certainly can be confusing to set up. It is a collection of PHP scripts that run on your server. The main benefit I see with Gallery is that it doesn't simply create static web pages that you must then upload to your site. You upload only your images.
If you want to change a caption, delete an image, re-order images, move images between albums, create new albums, etc., you don't need to rebuild a static album that's on your computer and upload everything all over again. Log on to your Gallery as administrator and change some setting in various popup menus and the site is dynamically updated.
If you want to change a caption, delete an image, re-order images, move images between albums, create new albums, etc., you don't need to rebuild a static album that's on your computer and upload everything all over again. Log on to your Gallery as administrator and change some setting in various popup menus and the site is dynamically updated.
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- Gallery creates DYNAMIC pages
web gallery software for the extreme geek - Version: 1.4.1, 2/13/2004 07:31PM PST
plaintiger
my friends all consider me pretty geeky; i'm the one they call when they have a technical problem and i can usually help them sort it out. but this - Gallery - is one of those things that the less geeky among us (and that includes me, now) download with the expectation that there will be an application involved and we can run it and poke around in the menus and the prefs and get a feel for how it works and then start using it...and instead we find a folder full of nothing but cryptically-named documents and more folders and we have no blanking idea what to do with any of it, and the documentation takes it for granted that the user has already authored several fully-functional operating systems by himself, blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back...underwater...and serves no purpose except to overwhelm and bewilder.
i think i'll just stick with iView MediaPro, thanks. i don't need pretty custom backgrounds for my galleries *this* bad.
I really have no idea what previous posters are complaining about. It isn't fair to cast disparaging comments about a product that is more advanced than some people are used to. If I climbed into the captains chair of the Space Shuttle, I wouldn't gripe because I couldn't find the windshield wipers right away.
That said, I think that with a little patience and clear head, installing and configuring this gallery should be fairly trouble free. Yes, I've had a little experience with administrating data-driven sites, but I'm no expert. I had the gallery installed and running in a little over an hour from the time I DLed it. As with any piece of software, the user should READ the README file.
What would be helpful might be the inclusion of a glossary of terms and a description of the different features with information about exactly where one goes to configure them. Again, with a little clicking around, most things aren't too hard to find, but to a noob, I can see why it would be overwhelming.
ALSO, and I might just be blind, but I couldn't find a link to a demo on the developer's site. That almost caused me to assume that it was shoit and just move on to some other gallery.
ALSO, I'd LOVE to see this ported to XOOPs. Wish I new PHP better!
This is a very power, flexible, and full-featured gallery that is probably more than some people need, but I'm probably going to eliminate my XOOPs-based gallery and use this one, even though it will send my users out of my main site.
Great work!