Gallery - Tutorial

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Tutorial

Grave-Pictures – Gallery

Registrieren

• Sie müssen sich erst registrieren um Bilder sehen zu können!

• Klicken Sie den Registrieren Button im Menu und folgen Sie den Anleitungen.
• Es können neue Benutzer keine Beiträge schreiben, bis sie den Link angeklickt haben, der ihnen nach der Registrierung per E-Mail zugeschickt worden ist. Erst mit dem Aufrufen des Links aktivieren neue Benutzer ihr Benutzerkonto.
• Solange neue Benutzer diesen Link nicht angeklickt haben, sind sie in der Benutzergruppe 'Nicht aktivierte Benutzerkonten'.

General Overview

See sections below for greater detail.

• Extensive forum integration (all include single login and many include integrated avatars, signatures, styles)
• Extensive usergroup permissions-based system
• Gallery layout options including a forum-style layout, portal-style (with sidebars) and a gallery layout.
• Contest mode to create categories where photos can be voted on and then sorted by number of votes.
• Multiple user-selectible layouts for galleries: thumbnails only, thumbnails with titles, full descriptions and grouping of photos by members.
• Auto thumbnail creation with option for medium sized images and resizing down of larger images. Large images can be displayed in popup windows.
• Option to allow users to download a gallery as a ZIP file
• User managed "favorites" list which can be downloaded as a ZIP file
• Multiple watermark options (including on-the-fly watermarks) © Copyright Grave-Pictures for all Pictures.
• Multi-language support (includes english, dutch, french, german and spanish
• templates).
• Gallery Moderator assignments to moderate comments and photos
• Personal Albums for user management of their own photos - including user selectible frames for albums, photo sorting and when not using integrate forum styles the ability to choose their own style.
• eCards allowing users to send eCards to their friends and family; users can customize the look of the card and get return receipts when card is read.
• Slideshows with user selectible delays
• EXIF/IPTC information extraction and display
• Help popup screens

Main Index

• Toggle display boxes for Recent uploads, Most Popular photos

• Quick Search boxes as well as quick links for displaying recent uploads (1 day, 7 days, 14 days, all images)

• Intelligent menus to display user selectable options
• Who'sOnlinedisplay

• PALs which can display Recent Comments for more Informations klick more, Highest Rated, Random Images, Top Posters and general Stats

• Calendar PAL to display current month with links to images uploaded on a given date

• Number of users viewing shown per category

• Category avatars

Category Display (showgallery)

• User selectable number of thumbnails to display per page (saved in a cookie for future use)

• Email the page link to a friend box

• Subscribe to gallery for email notifications of new uploads
• Thumbnail/Gallery selectible dropdown for showgallery pages which allow for thumbnail only views
• User selectable sorting options
• Advanced Sorting on showgallery pages
• Sort Photos
  • Sort by Filename

• Sort Photos
  • Sort by Timeframe

• Sort Photos
  • Order Ascending or Descending

• Quick nav dropdown selector
• "Image ## to ## of ####" indicator on showgallery page
• Recent Posts category specific when in category
• Category specific thumbnail borders (can override site default)
• Thumbnails with Gallery in showgallery page

• Thumbnails without Titles in showgallery page

• Thumbnails with Titles in showgallery page

Member Galleries (showmembers)

• List or Gallery format available
• Quick sorting by first letter of name
• User selectable sort options
• User selectable number of users per page to display
• Member Galleries can be configured to show all of a users photos or only those photos which were uploaded to their Member Gallery
• Integration of the "Show Albums" mod which provides an index of all albums; switch can be used to add link to Members Gallery (see this example link)
• Recent Posts category specific when in category
• Thumbnails with Titles in showgallery page
• "Image ## to ## of ####" indicator on showgallery page

Search

• Extensive searching options which allows for searching of Photos and Comments
• Thumbnail for photo optional when viewing comment search results
• Search within date range
• Search for Username
• Search specific categories, multiple categories or all categories
• Quick search boxes located on index and gallery pages
• improved search conditions (all words, one word matching)

Photo Display

• Preview strip of photos displaying next and previous photos for quick viewing or with Slide Show

• Links to enabled options for:
  • Add to Favorites

• Links to enabled options for:
  • Post a comment

• Links to enabled options for:
  • Report Photo (allows a user to report a photo to the Admin and enter a description of the issue)

• Links to enabled options for:
  • Send as eCard
  • Receive email updates (notifys user of comments being posted to photo)

• Displays EXIF Information

• Quick rating box/Additional Info (Add to Favorites – Post a Comment – Report Photo – Send as e-Card – Receive Email Updates – Print View – Show Exif Info)

• Quick comment box

• Display IMG markup code so users can copy/paste into forums

Profile

• Displays simple stats about a user
  • Number of photos
  • Number of comments
  • Number of times their photos have been viewed
  • Disk space used
  • Last photo uploaded
  • Last comment posted
• Manage gallery subscription (can unsubscribe from here)
• Manage photo notifications (can unsubscribe from here)
• Admin option for link to delete all of a users photos
• Link to Manage Photos (see Photo Manager)

My Favorites

• Images can be tagged as "favorites" which are available from a "My Favorites" link on every page
• If enabled, all images in the users My Favorites can be downloaded as a ZIP file
• Images can be removed from favorites either on the photo page or from the My Favorites page.
• User ability to sort albums to control the order in which they are displayed.

eCards

• User selectable options include:
  • Layout (text to side or below image)
  • Background color
  • Border color
  • Font color
  • Font style
• Email sent to user to notify how to view eCard
• Optional notification for when card is viewed
• Preview card option
• User can enter Subject and text to be sent with eCard
• eCard expirations set by Admin

and any more!