[olug] Gallery software

John Hobbs john at velvetcache.org
Tue Nov 4 20:46:33 UTC 2008


I lean towards Gallery [0] for the gallery side of things and Wordpress [1]
for the cms/blog side of things.  Both are easy to customize and Wordpress
integrates with Gallery smoothly through a plugin.

- John Hobbs

[0] http://gallery.menalto.com/
[1] http://wordpress.org/

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> I've found myself in the market for a web CMS-type gallery application
> that will allow a privileged (but non-computer-savvy) content administrator
> to create galleries within his site, upload photos, and add text to
> individual photos, entire galleries, or the entire site.
>
> My brother in Nashville is a talented trim carpenter and makes wooden
> jewelry that he sells.  He wants me to run a simple web page for him
> off my home server.  I can handle the software setup, but we both want
> him to be in charge of all the content without having to tell me
> which changes he wants made.  This will be a smallish site.  I'd
> prefer that he be able to maintain it entirely via a web interface
> without installing any special software or learning to use SSH/SCP.
> He'll be running a Mac and my server will run some Linux flavor, if
> it matters.
>
> Any suggestions?  I've never needed to setup something like this
> before.  The only CMS I've used for my own stuff is 'vi'.
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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