I’ve tried a couple applications locally on my machine for managing photos in a gallery style manner with options like commenting, syndication, etc. Two in particular that I’ve tried that are noteworty is Gallery (sourceforge) and Plogger. The thing with photo gallery apps, is that there are hundreds of them out there, all with various features.

My buddy Jamison is using Gallery, one that has a ton of possibilities — plenty of modules with various functions. It’s even capable of allowing you to sell photos, send them to shutterfly and loads of other features. However…it’s also a heavyweight. The basic application with a few modules stood at around 14 MB. With my lackluster bandwidth (courtesy of Comcast — blazing upload speeds of 45 kbps…zzzzz) it took forever to upload the app.

I tried plogger as well and that one was much easier to manage, not nearly as complicated and was relatively easy to customize the look (if you know a little PHP and how to edit stylesheets). It certainly doesn’t have the power and options that Gallery does, but it’s easy to use and quite lightweight. But knowing PHP and seeing how lightweight the code is, it shouldn’t be too hard to add some minor features to the app.

But the main function of compiling selective photos into a gallery is accomplished.

April 16, 2006, 6:33 pm

Filed under: Photoblography

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