I have several questions.

HUNTERSlink

Joined: 2011-03-02
Posts: 2
Posted: Wed, 2011-03-02 16:04

Hello. I just started my website a few months ago, so I'm new to all this. I have a couple questions regarding Gallery and I hope someone can answer them.

1. Can visitors of my website upload pictures into a single album that I created? I don't want visitors to be able to create their own albums. I want to control that. I may have one album for "this" type of picture, and another album for "that" type of picture. Then let the visitor to my website choose the appropriate album and upload their picture. Can I do that while not having visitors create usernames or have to login?

2. What will the webpage for the Gallery look like? I have a talk forum on my website and the webpage or template for the talk forum looks completely different than that of my main website. I'm sure I can somehow write a template, or whatever, for the talk forum, but I don't have the expertise and I don't want to spend the money, at this point, for a web designer. Will the Gallery use the graphics/colors of my website or am I required to use a pre-designed template from Gallery?

I hope all that makes sense and I appreciate any information you can give me.

Thanks.
 
nivekiam
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Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16504
Posted: Wed, 2011-03-02 16:44

1) With Gallery 2, yes, you can set permissions to do that.

2) There are a lot of themes available for G2:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Category:Gallery_2:Themes
http://themes.gallery2.hu/
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suprsidr
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Joined: 2005-04-17
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Posted: Wed, 2011-03-02 17:30

Gallery2 is very easy to embed into your website.
Once you have it setup ask and I'll show you how.

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eliz82

Joined: 2009-11-06
Posts: 71
Posted: Thu, 2011-03-10 09:39
HUNTERSlink wrote:
2. What will the webpage for the Gallery look like? I have a talk forum on my website and the webpage or template for the talk forum looks completely different than that of my main website. I'm sure I can somehow write a template, or whatever, for the talk forum, but I don't have the expertise and I don't want to spend the money, at this point, for a web designer. Will the Gallery use the graphics/colors of my website or am I required to use a pre-designed template from Gallery?

you need to learn some CSS for that. install the Firebug plugin for firefox, you can preview CSS changes very easy.

for example i have a embeded gallery2 in a PHPBB3 forum.
1) a solution is to modify directly my theme css of the gallery2 to make it compatible with forum design ( /gallery/themes/matrix/theme.css )
2) the second solution is to use the CSS overwrite that my phpbb3-g2 integration pack allready have. i'm using forum/styles/SimpleLightGreen/theme/g2embed_overrides.css and made css modification to that file to make forum design compatible with gallery design. because is executed after theme.css it will overwrite it.
3) the third solution is to use Colorpack plugin for gallery2 and gallery/modules/colorpack/packs/*/color.css . you can set there in color.css any parameter you like and use "!important;" to overwrite a previous declaration made in theme.css .
this way is the more complex because Gallery2 admin panel let you set specific Colorpack on specific albums. so you can make a different scheme color for different albums.