Improvements To Thaivisa Photo Gallery

[george]

We are happy to annouce that we will upgrade our Gallery software shortly. New Features and Changes coming up:

* Post form fields automatically insert into the post form and image view page without manual skin edits

* Import/export of media types to allow sharing of media type codes

* Zip import capabilities for members

* Latest images honor permissions accurately / Improved recursive latest image and count handling for albums and categories

* Image dimensions display on fileview

* Added "Forum style" for album listings

* Various image listing pages use the global settings (as opposed to hard-coded 9 image display)

* Internal code overhaul - reduced queries, reduced number of queries in SQL cache files, less template files loaded

* Improved search - search capabilities expanded, search results use image listing format

* Improved full image popup options: show in new window, show in popup, use IPB attachment (Gallery 2.1) style, and lightbox integration capabilities

* Added ability for members to choose default sorting for albums when creating them, added sort options to album view

* Notification option for new comments to an image (with ability to subscribe during image submission)

* Notification options for new images in a category or album

* Control panel to manage notification options

* Ability to view more than last 10 comments (view all, 10 per page, ordered by submission date desc)

* Ability for administrators to disable private albums

* Added easy bbcode options to image view page

* Added ability to set an image as your avatar

* Redesigned image view page slightly to clean it up a little

* Added ajax controlled photostrip navigation

* Added ability to find all images by a user from the Gallery tab in profiles

* Ability to moderate albums, including move images to and from albums, hide and unhide images in albums, pin and unpin images in albums, etc.

Plus dozens of small cleanups here and there. Much of the work went into the backend - there was a lot of abstraction of common functions, and a lot of work put into making Gallery run more efficiently. There is now a much stronger base moving forward to work from than before, and adding new features should be much easier than it was previously.

We expect to launch the improved Thaivisa gallery shortly. If you have a photo gallery uploaded on thaivisa.com your current album(s) will be converted, so you don;t need to do anything.

Your feedback is welcome!

[Kan Win]

Welcoming news I must say and waiting to see the new look.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

P.S. on the Gallery that we have now after page 15 – 16 there are no photos just names. Will these be deleted or will they be included?