Flash Photo CMS: What To Choose?

Creating a personal portfolio is a quite challenging task for a photographer, artist or designer. And if you don't have any special programmer or web designer skills, this task becomes really painful ...Until you get to know about CMS based photo website software.

If you are not satisfied with public photo gallery page and want something more attractive and unique, think about personal portfolio website based on Flash. Flash will give you enough tools to build an eye-catching, dynamic and interactive photo portfolio that will attract new customers and employers. Besides, today even non-professionals can create flash photo albums or complex flash websites with the help of photography CMS. It allows you to manage an advanced website without any professional knowledge, by means of user-friendly GUI administrative panel. There are a lot of CMS providers available on the web today, some of them are tailored directly to the needs of photographers, designers and creatives.

This is an overview of 7 attractive flash photo CMS offers you could take into consideration while planning your own photography website. You can find a comparison table in the end of the article to easily analyze information and make the best choice for your project.

Picaholic
Picaholic offers flash website software for photographers, artists, designers and creative professional. The website editing suite comes along with pre-built flash templates (currently there are 4 templates available). There are 3 payment options presupposing the long-term subscription loyalty.

Key Features:

- Online content editing application
- Unlimited pages
- SEO friendly + Google Analytic integration
- Background Music and Video Playback
- Windows and Apple compatible
- Password protected pages

Price:
- from $25 per month
- from $60 per quarter
- from $200 annually

mojoPortal 2.3.1.9: Focusing on Images

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mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 has been released. A number of image related features went into this new release. Some of the new features found in mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 include:

  • Easy content animation/slide shows - You can enable it in the settings of an Html Content instance and it will create a slide show based on the content using cool transitions that you can also configure in the settings. The animation uses the jQuery Cycle Plugin. It can rotate images paragraphs or any html content.
  • Integrated Image Cropping
  • Bulk Image Upload in the Image Gallery - Bulk upload was added to the Folder Gallery in the last release and now the same feature has been added to the the Image Gallery.
  • Integrated Twitter Widgets
  • New Configuration file for TinyMCE - More control over which plugins and toolbar items are displayed is provided via an xml config file.

Additional details and more information on the features included in mojoPortal 2.3.1.9 can be found on the official announcement at mojoPortal.com.

Ready Photo Site Flash Photo CMS – Your Editable Photography Website

The name of Ready Photo Site flash content management software speaks for itself.  Ready Photo Site is a Flash Photo CMS geared to the needs of photographers, artists, painters, fashion models and any company or person who wants a personal stylish Flash photo gallery and expects to have more than just a place on the web to upload the photos. Ready Photo Site is not only an online photo gallery - it is a fully editable and controllable Flash photography website.

The special thing about our photo website software is that you don't have to build or buy the design for your photo site and search for appropriate CMS solution to integrate it with. Ready Photo Site is an all-in-one solution. We offer up-to-date Flash photo website designs integrated with the content management system. No additional software or admin tools are required for successful Ready Photo Site project maintaining – simply install the application and enjoy the workflow.

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Development continues for Gallery 3.0

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Now that Gallery 3.0 is in the beta phase of its software development, I feel it's safe to talk about the new features users can expect out of this open source web-based photo album organizer. Now I realize that Gallery is not a full content management system, but I also know there are plenty of people out there that think they need a CMS when perhaps what they really need is something a little simpler. For those that want to build a site to display and share their photography I recommend a look at Menalto's Gallery.

The philosophy behind Gallery 3 development is to make the web application easy and fun to customize with a big focus on usability. The developers have made every effort to make it much easier for the casual developer to hack on the product and do some really cool things with the software. The emphasis is on making simple, frequent tasks quick and easy.

New features and enhancements in Gallery 3 include:

  • Support for upgrading to further releases
  • Full HTTPS support
  • Use the EXIF caption (information provided by your digital camera) as the photo description

Work on Gallery 3 Begins

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The developers of Gallery, an online photo-album organizer, have officially announced the start of Gallery 3.  I have to say they have a very aggressive release date for the release of version 3.0.

Those of you that have been paying attention know that something is going on! At the Gallery Sprint a few weeks ago, we made a lot of decisions and got the ball rolling on a complete rewrite which we've decided to call Gallery 3. Development of new features on Gallery 2 has been frozen, Gallery 1 is now a completely separate project "Jallery", and the Gallery team is now busy at work on Gallery 3. It's definitely not ready to run on your website yet but we've set the ambitious goal of having a 3.0 release by February 1, 2009 and are on track to meet that goal.

Feature requirements for Gallery 3.0 can be found on the Gallery wiki page.

Gallery 2.3 released

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Gallery 2.3, an open source "photo album organizer", has been released. Lot of new features in this version of the Gallery 2.x branch.  Some of the new features and enchancements include:

  • Slideshow module now uses PicLens to provide a rich, full screen slideshow.
  • Comment module now offers spam moderation and Akismet support.
  • New email notification module allowing users to configure events they wish to get notified for.
  • Support for SQLite 3.x as a database backend.
  • New SnapGalaxy module for prints from snapgalaxy.com.
  • New Jpegtran module to support rotation and cropping of jpeg images.
  • New database backup features.
  • Themes can now override module template files.
  • Performance and stability improvements.
  • User interface improvements.
  • Security improvements resulting from internal and external audits.

New Bitrix Site Manager CMS v6.5: Web 2.0 style

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Bitrix, Inc. is proud to announce the release of Bitrix Site Manager CMS V6.5, a new version filled with marvelous enhancements and new leading-edge features, including Web 2.0 tools, site wizards, Web services, photo gallery and other utilities. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web content management system that provides stable functionality and security, and promotes cost-effective growth of clients’ Internet projects.

Gallery 2.2.2

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Gallery 2.2.2, a Web application for managing your photos, was released this week.  No new features have been added but over 30 bug fixes were included in this stability release.  Some highlights are:

  • Fixed WebDAV for OS X / GNOME clients - Items are now recognized as images
  • Fixed fallback theme / theme reset functionality
  • Fixed PHP error in fetchWebPage() on too many redirects
  • Fixed rewrite rule for embedded core.DownloadItem
  • Fixed Upgrade Code for IBM DB2 / MS SQL Server

Check Gallery's download page for the latest version of Gallery.  The original announcement of Gallery 2.2.2's release can be found by clicking here.

Gallery 2.2 Coming Soon

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With the first release of two release candidates, Gallery 2.2 will be arriving before you know it. Some of the new features in Gallery 2.2 will include:

  • Downloadable Plugins
  • Added support for themes to display dynamic albums.
  • Watermarking changes
  • New themes: Carbon and Ajaxian
  • New WebDAV module to mount Gallery as network device on your computer. This allows you to easily manage your Gallery with any WebDAV client like Windows Explorer.
  • New module to send Ecards.
  • New Digibug module for prints from digibug.com.
  • Added support for Flash Video and Windows ASF video.
  • Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications.

You can download the release candidate from the Gallery 2 Download Page. More information about Gallery 2.2 RC 1 can be found on Gallery's original announcement.

Gallery 1.6 just around the corner

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Click to go to Gallery's WebsiteThe folks at Gallery, an online photo album organizer, are working hard developing the newest version of Gallery in the 1.x line...Gallery 1.6. Gallery 1.6 is currently at Alpha 2 which means that the software is intended for testing purposes and not for use on production servers. If your confused with what I just said then I recommend you wait installing Gallery 1.6 until it has been fully released.

The two primary goals for this new version of Gallery were HTML 4.01 compliance and easier visual customization. Because so many of the code changes were centered around the visualization, it is unlikely that your previous 1.x themes and styles for Gallery are fully compatible with Gallery 1.6. For a highlight of changes and new features as well as download links in Gallery, check out the official announcement located on the application's home site.

The current development schedule calls for Gallery 1.6 to be released at the end of November, 2006. In in the Spring of 2007, Gallery 1.7 will be released and it will likely be the last actively developed version in the Gallery 1.x series to be released. After Gallery 1.7 is released the developers are expected to support it for one year which gives procrastinators the time the need to finally adopt Gallery 2.