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Tracy Lee Kometani

Joined: 2006-05-12
Posts: 4
Posted: Fri, 2006-09-15 15:17

OK, I am a mac user and I have been a member poking around in my spare time to get my images hosted with Gallery. How do I do this?
I have downloaded port authority and darwin ports. Don't know how to work this. Is Gallery a software attached to my site that will put images on my site, or does it send the user to another location hosted by gallery? Can people use this as e-commerce and purchase a photo from me?

How exactly do I get this software to work with my site?
I use Readyhosting.com, my site is built in Adobe Go Live and I up load the site myself once I am done creating it via fetch. Any help would certainly make my brain stop twitching.

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Tmack

Joined: 2005-06-01
Posts: 5
Posted: Wed, 2006-10-11 19:52

Quick and simplest description is that Gallery is a server side software package that will display photos you upload to it. You have to first have a webserver or hosting account that can run PHP applications and has enough space to hold your pics (and can run a Database if you plan to use V2 of gallery), then you can install gallery on it, configure it, and finally upload stuff to it. It is not a hosting account in itself, just an addition you can setup on your own hosting account (similar to CMSs like Mambo/Joombla, Post Nuke, phpbb, movable type, etc, but for pictures). You can probably set it up such that people can look through your photos and request images for purchase, and there might be plugins to make shopping carts, etc, but by default it only displays them. It does have hooks into various photo printing services, which you might be able setup accounts with to chage $$ for the prints above the normal printing charge, but I havent played with that part of it before...