I've set up most of the architecture for the gallery, and everything is live and running at this point.

Please head on over to http://roundfender.somethingsquare.com/ and check out the album titled "Themes". There is a subalbum for each potential theme that we can use. Please have a look at them, play around a bit, and let me know which theme you'd prefer.

I haven't taken any steps to include or exclude the site from search engines yet. I can take care of that once we come to a concensus on what (if anything) we want to do for this.

- What theme do you like the best? Do you have any suggestions for customizing it?
- Do you want the gallery to be included in search engines?
- Do you want your email addresses to be publicly displayed or hidden on your "profile" page? (I would suggest to hide it if we choose to include the gallery in search engines. You can always type out your contact information in your root album description if you like.)


Now, some information for you...

Some of the features I have set up:
Everyone (who visits from the internet)
- View images and albums (unless hidden or protected by album owner)
- View/Add comments
- View/Add ratings
Additional features for users (you guys)
- Access to upload (from hard drive or web page) and manage (including hide, password protect, and delete) files, select images/albums for bulk download (as zip file), edit captions (in BB format)
- Create and manage (including hide, password protect, and delete) sub-albums within your album
- Add your own personal watermarks to images in your album
Some features of the gallery software itself
- Create multiple sized versions of the original image, rotate or resize the image, crop the thumnail version of the image, use custom thumbnail image
- Member pages which show your name, email address, and most recent updates (this can be hidden or disabled, if you prefer not to have your email addresses displayed)
- Automatically reads EXIF data from jpeg file created by most digital cameras (not currently set to be displayed by default, but we can change this if you are interested)
- "Highlight" image for each album cover will change to a random image within that album every 6 hours (This time limit can be changed, or the random feature can be disabled)
- Quotas: Right now, I have 500MB allocated for the images in the gallery which is to be shared by all users. I thought this was a nicer option than setting individual user quotas, so that you can add as much as you like (assuming someone else hasn't taken up all the space). 500MB should be enough room for a lot of photos, but if we start running out of space then I will try and come up with another solution.
- Thumbnail dimension size is set to 150 pixels, default image view size is 640 pixels, additional view size is 800 pixels, max picture size dimension is 1024 pixels, no file size limit is set (although upload size is limited to ~8MB). These are the gallery-wide defaults I have set at the moment, but these can be changed if we want to, and users can over-ride these settings for their individual albums.
- Allegedly, the software can handle the following file types:
pdf, psd, ai, eps, ps, svg, tga, pcd, ppm, pjpeg, png, tif, tiff, ppm, gif, jpg, jpeg, jpe, png, wbmp, mpe, mpeg, mpg, mov, qt, asf, wmv, avi, swf
(The the purpose of compatibility and server disk space, I'd suggest that we primarily stick to jpg and gif files for images. I haven't had a chance to test how well the video formats work, so I can't make any recommendations there yet.)


Once the gallery layout/setup is finalized, I will also try to prepare a rudimentary instruction guide for using the software, so that you can get started with ease once you've created your account.