It seems now adays anyone with a little skill makes an image gallery as their hobby/project.

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I am no exception! 😃

So I proudly announce my own image gallery project.

URL: http://test.9cloud.net

Features

1. Drill down navigation with tags unlike the usual tag cloud. I think tag clouds are confusing and useless when you have a large amount of content to share.

I also think that tags (as flickr does it) are lacking something: a heirchichal view.

Example: I'm looking for pictures of dogs. I don't know what type exactly, but I know what I'm not looking for. With other image galleries, I have to go to the over general 'dog' tag, then hunt through the files manually.

With this. I find the dog tag, and then the software lists all the tags beneath it... golden retriever, bulldog, etc. I can exclude the things I don't want to further narrow my search.

2. 100% Buzzword compliance. I used the Symfony framework in PHP5 to develop this. It came with Prototype and Scriptaculous bundled so I felt compelled to use it.

3. Automated mass uploading. Click one button. Select 10, 20, or a 1000 pictures from a folder in your computer and watch them queue up and upload into your album.

4. Quick and easy re-organizing. If that album is out of order, how do you fix it? Click sort, and you see the entire album at once. Drag and drop pictures to re-order them.

5. Tag suggestions. Just uploaded something? Don't know where it'll fit in with a tag? The software is capable of suggesting tags for you. It looks at the title, and sees if there are any tags in the system related to those words.

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And I'm improving it pretty much everyday.

I have my friends "beta" testing it, but I'd like a little advice from other developers.

So please, take a look at this. Tell me what you think, and what areas I can improve upon or are already shining nicely.

Disclaimer: The amount of javascript you load initially is obscene. I'll compress and optimize for loading time later, but right now its in 'dev' mode.

URL: http://test.9cloud.net

    I know it doesn't look nice in IE6, but I use Firefox and Opera so I'm not too bothered. (btw... I use Firefox, because its the default program that loads up at my school... not just because I'm a Fox-o-file).

    I whipped up the menu very quickly, and I'm using css selectors that IE6 doesn't support. Also, I'm using NifyCube to round corners on some divs. When I finish the project, I plan to clean up the css (or hire someone to do this for me).

      6 months later

      It's been a few months, but I've found time to update the demo.

      There's a new site available as well, and I added new features.

      http://test.9cloud.net

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