Client project - Global flash gallery

Like mentioned in previous posts I could not get the 'Next Gen photo gallery' to work properly on the website. Reason being that the plugins main purpose was for acting as a side bar widget and not a main focal point of a website.

After discussions with Shaun it was agreed that the best plan of action would be a flash gallery. I initially thought of having a flash gallery in the site but chose not to because of users not having a flash player. However looking back the majority of the people that I know already have flash player downloaded and so I decided to go ahead with a flash gallery, besides it looks more fancy and I believe that it will be more appealing for a the younger target audience.




I came across the 'Global flash gallery' plugin and after looking at a number of different galleries this one looked the most user friendly. I was not only trying to find a smart gallery but I was also looking for a gallery that would be easy to handle by someone who is not familiar with Wordpress. With this gallery the user is able to select the images that they require put them into different albums i.e. classes, competitions, shows etc. The user will then be able to select the photo's that they would like to be shown in the gallery and simply click the 'create gallery' button. this automatically gives the user the option to create a flashy gallery. I opted for the most simplest gallery because of the audience that the website is targeted at. To publish the gallery the user presses the 'publish' button and the gallery plugin code is supplied. The user just has to copy and paste the code on the page where they want the gallery to show.

I am pleased by what I have achieved considering I have been working on the gallery for over a week and achieving little results and even though I am happy with the gallery there are a few issues that need to be raised when handing my project over to my client:
- Each gallery that is upload can only hold nine images. This could be the size of the image even though I minimised the image size and so Jess would will have to switch the images of each album.
- When Jess wants to upload images she will also have to change the size of the images. Luckily I know she has experience in Photoshop so I can easily shoe her how to do this when I hand over the website.

The gallery is now up and running in not only the gallery page but also for the uniform as Jess wanted images of the different items of uniform that could be purchased.