26 September 2003

nGallery v1.0 Released!

Visit the nGallery site at http://www.ngallery.org to download!

nGallery is a FREEWARE, OPEN SOURCE implementation of a image gallery written purely in managed .NET and C#.

nGallery provides a solution to store and display your image galleries on your own Web site, as well as providing means for customizing and extending nGallery to your own personal likings.

System Requirements: 

  • Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 * 
  • Ability to manage directory-level permissions 
  • Ability to configure a directory as an application directory (for global.asax processing) 
  • While a database is not required, if you wish to run the SQL Server data provider you obviously must have access to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or above.

        * = nGallery is currently untested with Mono.

Features:

  • Allows creation and customization of Albums to contain your images
  • Provides automatic thumbnailing, and caching, of your images for faster loading
  • Allows users to comment or caption images
  • Allows users to select a specific picture within an album to be used to highlight the album's contents
  • Contains a full Web-based administration tool for managing your albums, images, comments/captions, including uploading your images for you, or bulk adding images that have been previously uploaded
  • Allows you to quickly send an e-mail with a link of your gallery, a specific album or a specific image to a friend or list of friends
  • The look and feel of your nGallery is fully customizable, without touching any code
  • Supports the concept of "skinning" where users can customize the look and feel of nGallery and then easily share those with the community
  • Integrates with Shutterfly so that you can transfer and print images
  • Allows you to customize the album-listing page to be either in line or a grid layout
  • Configures almost all features in one central text file
  • Allows you to secure the administration tool
  • Allows you to password protect your entire photo gallery

We encourage you to grab a copy, subscribe to the mail list (ngallery-discuss-subscribe@ngallery.org) and contribute! We're about to start discussions on v2 features and we'd love to have everyone involved!

If you find any bugs, please send a detailed description to bugs@ngallery.org!

 

Thanks, and hope everyone enjoys it,
-Jason Alexander (jason@ngallery.org)

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Comments

# TrackBack said:
Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:30 AM
# Alex Hoffman said:

Many thanks for a really great product - now I don't have an excuse for not sorting out all my digital photos! (BTW - really like the email feature)

Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:40 AM
# Brian Swiger said:

Excellent .NET project! I've been looking for this for quite a while. I ran across several attempts at this with .NET, but this one looks awesome. I'm downloading and installing it all now. Thanks.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:38 PM
# Corey Gouker said:

I was wondering if there were any plans or ideas on EXIF tag support in a point release or any comments on a plugin that would do it?

Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:20 AM