Introduction to Gallery

Bharat Mediratta

July 25, 2002

What is Gallery

• Your photos on your website

• Similar to commercial ASP products

Brief History of Gallery

• Started May 2000

• Small development team

• 20,000+ websites today

• 100+ new installs a day

Gallery Features

• Easy Install

• Simple image management

• User permissions

• Java companion

• Slideshow

• User comments

Customizing Gallery for Your Website

• Html wrappers

• Style Sheets

• Modifying the code

Gallery and CMS/Portals

• Nuke and PostNuke

• Geeklog

• PhpBB2

• XOOPS

Using Gallery for E-commerce

• Using html_wrap plugins

• Shopping cart

• Inventory integration

Known Issues

• Prototype

• No Internationalization

• No Templates

• Concurrency Problems

G2: The Future of Gallery

• Templates

• Concurrency Support

• Relational Database support

• Better CMS Integration

• Internationalization

• Dynamic thumbnail generation

• Significant performance increases

Questions