Comments on: An artwork gallery with Zenphoto http://www.exiledesigns.com/an-artwork-gallery-with-zenphoto/ cliparts (tubes), webdesign, ressources for designers, fantasy illustrations, poser characters and textures Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:34:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Corinne http://www.exiledesigns.com/an-artwork-gallery-with-zenphoto/#comment-14847 Corinne Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:06:17 +0000 http://www.exiledesigns.com/an-artwork-gallery-with-zenphoto/#comment-14847 Hi Yoan, many thanks for your input. I agree with you that mostly, clients need slightly different (or even very new) functionalities. I haven't tried to hack into Zenphoto at all yet, however (fortunately, my first client using it liked it "as is"). I'm hoping that this gallery will develop in order to have a flourishing community (which will happily bring new hacks and add-ons ;). BTW, I had never heard about <a href="http://jimmac.musichall.cz/original.php" rel="nofollow">Jimmac's Original</a>. I'm going to look at it, thanks! Hi Yoan, many thanks for your input.
I agree with you that mostly, clients need slightly different (or even very new) functionalities.
I haven’t tried to hack into Zenphoto at all yet, however (fortunately, my first client using it liked it “as is”).
I’m hoping that this gallery will develop in order to have a flourishing community (which will happily bring new hacks and add-ons ;).
BTW, I had never heard about Jimmac’s Original. I’m going to look at it, thanks!

]]> By: Yoan http://www.exiledesigns.com/an-artwork-gallery-with-zenphoto/#comment-14846 Yoan Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:19:36 +0000 http://www.exiledesigns.com/an-artwork-gallery-with-zenphoto/#comment-14846 Hi, I've recently have to work with Gallery 2.2 which required some hacks to fit my client needs. What is great about it: you can modify every single template in a non destructive way (which means that upgrading it won't break everything). Templates are made using Smarty, hard to debug but easy to reuse. You can do a throw everything away and build your own theme and this is great! Gallery 2.3 (which isn't stable yet) will get even better at creating deeper modified themes. One bad point for Zen Photo, it seems very similar to WordPress (which is a true pain to hack on). Most of the people need exactly what ZenPhoto or Gallery does but with on little thing different. Being able to say: “say, no worries” matters important imho. Disclaimer: I don't know ZenPhoto, and have a pretty poor experience with Gallery. I used Jimmac's original too, which is build as a client script and php pages on the server (for old or cheap hosting platform). Cheers, -- Yoan Hi,

I’ve recently have to work with Gallery 2.2 which required some hacks to fit my client needs.

What is great about it: you can modify every single template in a non destructive way (which means that upgrading it won’t break everything). Templates are made using Smarty, hard to debug but easy to reuse. You can do a throw everything away and build your own theme and this is great!

Gallery 2.3 (which isn’t stable yet) will get even better at creating deeper modified themes.

One bad point for Zen Photo, it seems very similar to WordPress (which is a true pain to hack on).

Most of the people need exactly what ZenPhoto or Gallery does but with on little thing different. Being able to say: “say, no worries” matters important imho.

Disclaimer: I don’t know ZenPhoto, and have a pretty poor experience with Gallery.

I used Jimmac’s original too, which is build as a client script and php pages on the server (for old or cheap hosting platform).

Cheers,

– Yoan

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