patGal Live Preview
I promised it last night, but found a nasty bug allready wich now should be removed. I know it might not be much to the world right now, but acctually I been concentrating more on the basics of it and the showing part been abit behind. As you can see in this gallery, I haven’t assigned any directory pictures, but instead it’s showing the default folders. I will talk with a graphic friend of mine to get some custom made folders appear instead of these normal windows (wich is probabblly a breach in copyright. 
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Oh well, here’s the link to the Gallery. Comments, pretty urls, back and forward buttons, slideshow and such will be added. Since you can’t see the admin part, it’s currently integrated into the admin section. I will post some screenshots and add them to this post later today. Have fun and be sure to add some comments. 
July 27th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Is it available for download yet?
July 29th, 2005 at 10:21 am
Well I could release the code right now, but I haven’t had time to write any documentation to it yet. It might be best to do that first, since right now it would confuse anyone who tried to install it. However I would need some BETA testers. More info in my new blog post.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Hello Pate,
Just took a look at the first stage of your gallery plugin and wanted to give you my personal feedback.
First of all it looks very good. Clean and simple, and already wrapped in a nice layout. Something that can’t be said about many other galleries out there, although I must say there are a few nice ones being developed right now. Shame you all do this hard work on your own :).
Here are my thoughts:
1. Personally I don’t mind uploading through http://ftp. I even see the advantage of being able to upload my own selfmade thumbnail images. Anyway it would be nice If I could overwrite a thumb if I would prefer a different one/different cut.
2. Option for rectangular thumbs. I don’t fancy the square ones because they take away the dynamics of the pictures. And I don’t own a Hasselblad
You’re using tables to display the thumbs, so I myself would prefer centered vertical and horizontal thumbs. But perhaps this can be made into an option. Also what size the thumb should be (max-size).
3. The reason why until now I haven’t made my choice for a gallery system is that with each system you have to scroll to view the whole image. I would love to see the option of using a popupwindow for the larger image (I don’t need an ‘intermediate’ format). I’ve made a simple site for a friend which gives you an idea of how it could look with the popup (http://www.degroeneman.nl). And when using a single page for this, this page could be styled anyway you like (borders, backgroundcolors, margin and padding).
4. Perhaps a short title under the thumb and/or the larger picture. Ideal would be a title beneath the thumb and a description beneath the larger image, but looking at how hard I find it already to give my jpegs a proper name, this is not really a priority
5. I don’t really need comments. If people are going to like my images they can mail me. But I know lots of people want them really hard.
6. If you’re integrating the gallery into wordpress, then template tags like wp could be very handy. I’m thinking of a list of textlinks next to the gallery that link to all the main galleries directly, instead of having to move back to the main page with albumthumbs. Something like patgal_list_cats(); ?
7. Integration with wp could also mean a random/latest/favorite thumb on the weblog homepage with link to the album?
That’s it I think. I quess the popup and the centered thumbs are most important to me. The rest is OK.
I have a testblog running, so if you want I can be a ‘beta-tester’. Just let me know! I can ‘read’ php a little and done a bit of tweaking myself, but I’m not a programmer.
Jack