Gallery. Clear as mud
11:52 Sunday 27 May 07
Menalto gallery. That’s the piece of software that hasn’t been anywhere near any usability testing whatsoever. It’s amazingly obtuse. There has to be an alternative – someone must have created something that can work and can do so intuitively.
It’s astoundingly bad.
Need a gallery? Avoid Menalto.
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It is pretty chunky (50MB once installed). It’s rather painful to install too.
22:53 Sunday 27 May 07
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I used gallery and really didn’t like the functionality, even though it is 50 megs! All kidding aside, in terms of server side gallery programs, I have always liked 4images as it works the best for me!
22:24 Monday 28 May 07
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usability testing: prolly just don’t have the right users ;-)
usability testing: like the usability testing of WordPress?
01:42 Thursday 31 May 07
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I have long looked for a good image management system and was already determined to write my own (based on PHP5 + Symfony) because everything I came across appeared to be little more than a dirty hack when I found Menalto Gallery.
From my experience, it is fast, very robust, intuitive to use and – something I couldn’t care less about – easy to install. And the code is just beautiful, instead of the usual big-ball-of-dirt PHP chaos these developers have invested in a clean and testable architecture.
I’m quite baffled seeing such a contrasting opinion ;-)
10:58 Wednesday 24 Sep 08