mangiaphoto

Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply. It’s got all the functionality and “features” you need, and nothing you don’t. Where the old guys put in a bunch of modules and junk, we put a lot of thought. We hope you agree with our philosopy: simpler is better.

I tested few open source galleries and decided to choose Gallery2 for my blog. Unfortunately, after few months I found it dead. While I was reading internet forums and log files, I saw that gallery2 is a very complex and too heavy for normal usage. Don’t get me wrong about this “too heavy”. It is an easy task for administration, has hundreds usable plugins, templates, languages but I don’t like so big and complex things. It will eat up your web space with hundred files, at least 20 languages, scripts you don’t need, etc… Believe me, simple is better.

So, I decided to search for better solution and found ZendPhoto. Zenphoto really does have everything you need for your online gallery, and you’ll even stare in awe at some of the innovative innovations we innovated upon.

Here are some of the wonderful things about it:

• Your standard gallery stuff, the way everyone knows it should work: index, albums, and images. And of course, automatically generated thumbnails and sized-down images for your time and bandwidth saving pleasure.

• Upload any way you like. Want to use FTP? Stick your photos in a new folder in the /albums folder, and it’s an album. Want to use your web browser? Hit the control panel, click upload, enter some names and load your pics. Simple. Want to use e-mail? Sorry, not ready yet. E-mail your picture to your grandmother and she can probably figure it out.

• Comments! Just like on your blog, people can leave comments. Just like on your blog, you can smite them down with a single click if you don’t like them.

• AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse, yes, just like flickr (we like flickr, but we also already pay for lots of online storage, hence, we like zenphoto).

• Theme engine! Kind of like a steam engine, but more powerful… except when pulling a train. The theme engine is completely flexible; you can make your own themes, you can switch how your whole gallery looks at the click of a button, and you can make it look like your blog! (yeah, let’s see you do that, flickr…).

To see my gallery please click HERE. To start your own gallery, please visit ZendPhoto.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.