Bharat is a Gallery developer.
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Gx
End User Perspective
- Crisp UI
- Big, easy to read fonts (like Wordpress)
- Very little text
- AJAX presentation
- Ability to scroll around album without a new page load
- All complex features hidden by default, but available with a single click
- One-click way to specify whether you're on a small or large screen
- RSS feed for albums and comments
- Fast keyword search for albums and photos
- Easy Commenting System
- One-click AJAX to bring up comment interface, without leaving the page
- One box for username (whatever you enter is remembered)
- One box for comment
- Inline comment preview
- Save the comment without leaving the page.
- Be able to see animated thumbnails for movies that show several frames of the movie
- Be able to view a movie inline on the page without having to use an external viewer
- View all photos in an album in a slideshow
- EXIF information available on demand
Album Admin Perspective
- Edit all aspects of an album with an AJAX interface
- Rotate images inline with a single click
- Edit all text inline
- Ability to see the page the way that guests do
- One click hide/show for individual images
- Visual indicator that images are hidden from guests
- Drag and drop image upload
- Drag and drop reorder images and albums
Site Admin Perspective
- Admin status splash page that provides all essential info about the install
- Notification when there's a newer version of Gx available for download
- Notification about new stories on GMC
- One-touch publishing of data from Gx back to GMC
- Advanced system which provides access to all complex features (make the impossible stuff possible, but it doesn't have to be easy to get to)
- Integrated Anti-spam measures (captcha, akismet, etc) by default
- Simple logging system to see recent system events
- Maintenance system that provides common operations with one click
- Single "Tune Up Gallery" task that does all common operations
- Super fast plugin list
- Ability to enable many plugins at once (check the ones you want, click one button)
- Downloadable Plugins
- One-click upgrade of all available plugins
- One theme for the entire site
Module Developer Perspective
- Creating a new module is really easy (less than 1 minute)
- There are clear, concise step by step directions to create a new module
- Meta information about module is separate from the code
- Module can register a URL space (eg: "/comment") and handle all requests in that space
- Module can register new maintenance tasks
- Module can register new site admin pages
- Module can store its own metadata
- Module can be called before/after an item is created, modified or deleted
- Module can export a set of blocks, to be used by themes
- Module has access to the following hooks:
- after create/modify/delete photo/album/movie
- validate form input
- perform initialization tasks
- perform cleanup tasks
- perform periodic (eg: cron) tasks
- search its own metadata
- Module can perform an update from an old version to the current version
Theme Developer Perspective
- Creating a new theme is really easy, you can do it in 1 minute
- Easy access to all internal objects
- There is clear, concise step-by-step documentation for creating a theme
- No restrictions on how output works
- Print statements are ok
- PHP templates are ok
- Can do an entire new look with just a CSS file (a la CSS Zen Garden)
- Theme has access to the following hooks
- Put HTML:
- at the top of the page
- in the head element
- at the bottom of the page
- at the beginning of every form
