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Setting Up A Photo Gallery In Under An Hour

January 18, 2008 By Brian Self

I get asked a lot about the topic of photo galleries from budding designers and clients and they all ask the same thing. “What’s a really easy and fast photo gallery to set up and use?”

And then they ask me: “What do you think about Drupal?”

Don’t get me wrong, Drupal is great but I wouldn’t use “Drupal photo gallery” and “easy and fast to set up” in the same sentence. When I think of simple, I try to find something that can take as much work off my plate as possible; Thats why I opted to learn Ruby On Rails instead of Jakarta Struts.

When I began researching all the different image gallery frameworks, the one common denominator that seemed to get in the way of keeping “quick” in mind was that they all required a database to be set up. Except for when I came across a lovely, flexible image gallery PHP web application called Singapore. With Singapore you can administer directly via FTP or using the web based admin which features advanced metadata & user permissions; Fully template driven & multilingual. I am going to give a quick run-through in setting up Singapore and you will see really quickly why I chose to go with it when I need to quickly throw up a photo gallery.

Step 1

Download Singapore and upload it to your hosting account.

Once that is done we can take a run with the ‘test.php’ file to make sure our server can handle running Singapore. Point your browser to ‘http://www.whateveryourwebsiteaddressis.com/singapore/test.php’. The page will test everything and it should look something like this:

Server test page

The test will let us know that if we want higher quality thumbnails, we need to change the ‘thumbnail_software’ option in the ‘singapore.ini’ file. In the ‘singapore.ini’ file, change the value for the ‘thumbnail_software’ variable to ‘gd2’. Your screen should look like this:

The other settings in the ‘singapore.ini’ file can be messed around with as much as you desire. If you cannot edit the .ini file in your ftp client, just edit it on your desktop and upload it to replace the existing file.

Step 2

You need to change the permissions on some of the folders in order for the script to write to them. You can do this using the CHMOD command in your FTP program. We’ll change the permissions as follows:

  • CHMOD the ‘data’ folder and all the files and folders in the ‘data’ folder to 777
  • CHMOD the ‘galleries’ folder and all the files and folders in the ‘galleries’ folder to 777

Step 3

Now jump into ‘setup.php’ to setup Singapore or click the ‘Proceed to setup’ link at the bottom of the test page. Your screen should look like this:

Main setup page

Once this is finished make sure you delete the ‘setup.php’ so that you keep your head above the security issue water. Click on the proceed link and then…

Step 4

Your screen should look like this:

Click ‘Log in’ and enter ‘admin’ for the username and ‘password’ for the password. Your screen should look like this:

This will throw you into the Singapore main control panel page. Your screen should look like this:

Main admin control panel page

You can now use the control panel to customize and manage the gallery and just don’t forget to change your password!

Final words

Remember, it’s not what you use to get your clients site up and running as much as it is the amount of time it took to get set up and its simplicity to its end users that counts. At the end of the day, my clients are more concerned about having quick turnovers and working sites. Sometimes we can get caught up in the lingo, brands and “techyness” that makes us geeks drool like a kid in a candy store and makes our clients scream like a kid at the dentist.

Friday Focus #49

October 12, 2007 By Devlounge

Happy Friday everyone. Edition 49, just three weeks away from a year. Wow, are you as surprised as I am?

Sites of the Week

Week 49, and the first site this week is BillQ. BillQ is another billing / money management web application. Both the site and the application are very clean, but there are many of these around these days, and I’d actually have to have some money in order to actually try them out.

MyBillQ

9rules, the social network the content network, also finally released “Ali 2”. As the network I once belong to, I figured I’d share the news. And just for the hell of it, I thought I’d also love to point out how much more content is showcased in this new version. 4 “Most Popular Articles” (apparently based on views over the past 48 hours) and 5 “Most Popular Topics” (from 9rules notes).

9Rules Ali 2

And rounding out this weeks three is the Sundance Film Festival. A great festival to check out if you live in the area or just love independent movies. It’s hitting Park City, Utah (US) from January 17-27, 2008.

Sundance

Digg Weekly

Design – 9 Artists Who Will Blow Your Mind
[From Digg Description] Remember, the following jaw-dropping pictures are of paintings or sculptures. Even if you think photo realistic art is pointless (which I’m sure some people do) there’s no denying the skill and patience involved in these creations.

Programming – Nothing amazing again this week.

New Side Project

Just a little heads up. While I am still busy trying to find a buyer for Devlounge, I am also in the process of getting together things for a new small project of mine, one that won’t require any content adding of my own so I can just “set it and forget it”. I don’t want to give anything away (plus I don’t know exactly what I’m going to call it yet), but I will tell you that is it going to help a lot of you if you’ve ever been in my situation with trying to sell a site and having discovered that there aren’t really any places where you can say “my site is for sale” besides forums and Sitepoint’s Marketplace. This project is also doubling as my Senior Project for high school, so I have to do a lot of analyzing of marketing, prices, etc. We’ll see how things turn out.

Articles sitting on the burner, waiting for me to light the match

I have some articles I’ve been waiting to write, but it seems like as soon as I get home from school every day, before I know it it is time for me to go back to sleep and start the daily patterns of life all over again. I am going to work hard to get them out over the next few days. Please excuse all the excuses I have had over and over for the past few weeks for the lack of new content – I just need to get over my busyness and get some things published. Soon. Hopefully.

Friday Focus #48

October 5, 2007 By Devlounge

Edition 48. Yes, that’s f o r t y e i g h t.

Sites of the Week

Kicking things off is TEN (Teaching Excellence Network). Pretty nice for a network dedicated to teachers. Obviously their web department doesn’t need much work.

TEN - Teaching Excellence Network

Next we have a really minty design. This is the portfolio of Laco Janic, a graphic designer hailing from Slovakia. There is plenty of work in this portfolio, so don’t be surprised if it takes you a while to scroll through.

Janic Portfolio

Built by Buffalo, our final site of the week, has done some really slick looking work. Their newest site, Rememble, looks to be really cool. I hope on reviewing it sometime this weekend (in between SAT’s and a bunch of other things).

Built by Buffalo

Digg Weekly

Design – Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect in Photoshop
This is a really cool effect, and a very long and detailed tutorial. By the comments on the site itself, lots of people are enjoying, so hopefully some of you will find it useful as well.

Programming – Microsoft to Release .NET Framework Source Code in v3.5
From the Digg description: Microsoft will begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML, and WPF. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

Saturday Slice (FF #43)

September 1, 2007 By Devlounge

Late edition Friday Focus this week, and of course, it is all my fault. Please forgive me for a rare “Saturday” edition of the focus. Yesterday was my first day back at school, and after the seemingly forever when-the-hell-is-this-going-to-end day was over, I was out the rest of the night until early this morning. So no surprise I didn’t do any writing. The irony about the whole thing was all week I planned on writing about how helpful scheduling posts can be when a situation like this arises (like I knew it would), but I never even got a chance to write that one. Watch for it next week sometime. Anyways, enough talk. It’s Saturday Slice.

Sites of the Week

Kicking things off this week is Mobile Web Design, the store front page for Cameron Moll’s book on that exact topic. It was designed by 31Three. My favorite little feature is how you can actually use the More and Back buttons to look at some screenshots.

Mobile Web Design

Next up is Peppermint Tea. The “official” repository for Mint Peppers. The design was recently updated, and has a much more “dark mint” appearance to it.

Peppermint Tea

Rounding out this weeks Friday Saturday Focus is Rainfall Daffinson. A grid based portfolio layout, similar to Particles gives way to a nice collection of design work. Check them out.

Rainfall Daffinson

Digg / Design Float Weekly

Design – Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheets
Large collection of development “cheat sheets” in categories such as Javascript, CSS, Xhtml/Html, and Ajax.

Programming – Ruby on Rails vs PHP
The only top item in Programming for the last seven days. So here it is, a RoR vs PHP commercial.

Some Changes in Store

We are nearing the 300k unique visitor mark. Once we hit it, there will be some new and improved things in store for us here at Devlounge. The more people that come here, the faster we launch some of the new stuff and updates. I’ve been testing some of this stuff on the newest WordPress [beta] version, 2.3, and the site has been functioning just fine, which is only good news as we get ready to make some changes. Watch for them soon!

Have you advertised with us?

Without trying to sound too selfish, I thought I’d like to point out that we have a bunch of open slots right now for your advertising pleasure. This include 1 homepage slot and 2 sidebar slots. Be sure to visit our advertising page if you are interested.

That is it for this weekend. Enjoy it everyone!

Friday Focus #42

August 24, 2007 By Devlounge

Issue number 42. Exactly 10 weeks to go until we hit a year. Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Sites of the Week

Leading off this weeks top three is Kineda. How many times are we going to feature this place? I believe this is the third time Kineda has made the list, but every redesign looks cleaner and cleaner. I wish the Devlounge homepage was arranged like this, as I think it is very effective and helps tremendously with exposing a lot more content to the visitor. It gives me ideas, but as I said, I’m not redesigning this anymore – I’ve done enough of that already.

Kineda - Back here again

Next up is Challies. Another refreshingly clean magazine / portal style layout featuring lots of blues. Three columns and fairly polished up.

Challies Big

Wrapping up this week is Loose Stitch, an outlining app. It looks like the application interface itself is pretty clean, so I think I’ll be taking a look at this some time over the coming days.

Loose Stitch

Design Float / Digg Weekly

Design – A CSS Styled Table Version 2
Another great tutorial from Veerle. Nice and detailed, and comes with a clean final result (of course).

Programming – Image Browser Controls
Another tutorial, this time from Pup Image on the common right / left arrow controls found on a lot of images theres day when shown as a gallery / slide show.

Other News

Earlier this week I released Particles, our newest WordPress theme. As I mentioned, its lightweighty-ness (not really a word) makes it a great theme to build upon. If you didn’t believe me, check out this screenshot from a blog we’ve been watching via our refer logs that has been building off of the Particles theme to make a web gallery. Obviously, it is still a work in progress, but it’s only been a few days.

Particles in action on a live blog

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