Revolutionary gallery generation
Heyaz everybody! Any owner of a pay site or any other gallery-enabled site (AVS/TPG) has surely got through the school of a gallery creation. I put my leg on it that each third webmaster has checked out dozens of programs and scripts which could help him or her (dear madams, I pay my respect to you) to create galleries.Revolutionary galleries creation
Heyaz everybody! Any owner of a pay site or any other gallery-enabled site (AVS/TPG) has surely got through the school of a gallery creation. I put my leg on it that each third webmaster has checked out dozens of programs and scripts which could help him or her (dear madams, I pay my respect to you) to create galleries. Everything is as easy as one-two-three: download proggie, install it, run it, choose some parameters from an incredible list and get the result. Of course all that needs your precious time as far as you have to click here and there, read it’s huge technical documentation and feed a proggie with gigz of graphics – and everything is fine.
For example, the most popular for today is Gallery Maker PRO, you may download a full version here: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-3356748-100-4559680.html This lovely utility to many of webmasters lets you create galleries in 7 long time-wasting steps of selecting a needed feature on or off.
Here is an another method of gallery creation – create thumbnails in the Photoshop. But as far as I know there is no any masochists who would love to waste his time. In other case there would be no such programs like Gallery Maker PRO. But this program has a very serious disadvantage: each time you need to change your gallery content, add new whole gallery or just a few pictures, you have to run this program again, create thumbnails and each time upload all changes made to a FTP. In addition you can easily get messed up with dozens of html files this Gallery Maker PRO generates. That is why if you need to change a design of your gallery website it could be the real pain-in-the ass – you need to launch this damned program again and create all galleries from the ground, etc, etc, etc. So, are there enough draw backs in that Gallery Maker PRO? It’s enough that each uploading takes you time and effort – and thanks God if you have a fast channel.
So, what we have? While sitting on the gold mine you have to waste a lot of your time not to search for a good content and visitors, but to spend it all at your routine work – constantly upload not just pictures, but thumbnails too in addition to the heap of html files with an ugly design.
So, what you say to do, know-all man? – would ask somebody from the hall. Well, I’m not pretending to be a “know-all man” but I would like to notice – simply look around, maybe somebody has already solved that problem for you. For example, let us give a glance at internet-based software developers. And especially for the needs of Adult webmaster. The ones I would like to speak about are the group of hardworking Deutschland’s under the name of AdultWebware (www.adultwebware.com) who had offered quite an elegant solution which could not just make you forget what the time waste is. But also can make your work with content updates as a real pleasure.
Well, let’s stop throwing words around and move to business. And the business is as easy as one-two-three. It’s time to forget your content updating sorrows. Now to make your gallery being updated, all you need is:
1. Buy photos
2. Group them by directories
3. Upload it to your server
4. Go and have a coffee drink
Are you impressed? Think I’m kidding? I’m exaggerate a little bit of cause, but joking apart – Adult-Engine will do all the fork for you by itself. And what will it do? – you suspiciously ask me. In face of fact that I have a lot to say you about, I’ll try to speak briefly and on business.
— The ease of administation
You can manage all workflow via powerful Adult-Engine administrative interface. It seems like guys at AdultWebware have worked with each detail including the ease of use and intuitiveness of the navigation system. So, after uploading all graphical or video files to your server, it would be enough for you to enter the admin panel, choose “Galleries” section and press an “Update Index” button. After that you will see full tree of your website structure, each gallery is presented with a folder icon.
Now we need to create thumbnails. There’s nothing more easy than that! To create thumbnails you should press just one button with the same name on itself – “Create thumbnails”. Everything is ready! After we have created all thumbs its time to think about galleries. From the tree of the left we choose preferred gallery to work with by a simple one-clicking on it. What we can do with each gallery or category?
– Provide a name for the each category/gallery
– Enter full description for the gallery to warm-up a user higher
– Choose a thumbnail for the category/gallery from the list
– Choose date when the category/gallery should become visible on site
– Choose output template to be used when showing this gal to a user
– Define the number of thumbs per page
– Define the number of thumbs per line to prevent user of messing up
– What kind of content type should be supported by a category (jpg/mov/avi/ra/oth)
When all changes made, we need nothing more than pressing a “Save” button and all options will be saved. And what extraordinarily is there? There is not yet – just a simple settings. The most interesting is waiting for us ahead.
You can also add a copyright string to the top left corner to each of your photos. Farsighted Deutschland’s from AdultWebware has created an ability to choose a color of the string. Checking “make backup” checkbox lets you be sure that your source content files will not be damaged somehow and you will be able to make all changes back. After pressing a “Process” button you might be wondered how fast each photo will be marked with your copyright string with the name and address of your site on it! Not bad, isn’t it?
— The ease of installation
How to install this wonder to a ready site design? With a maximum simplicity: it’s enough to copy a needed string to the center of your page or to a place you need and everything is ready! It’s remarkable that the new version 2.1 of Adult-Engine supports templates. It means that each webmaster have an ability to tune Adult-Engine manually by himself in minutes using Adult-Engine’s own simple templates language.
By the way, all these technical fine points could be solved by AdultWebware specialists, simply subscribe for a tech support. To believe the information on their website, is to know that first installation is made by them and one month of tech support is included.
— Technical requirements
What technical requirements the Adult-Engine has? Your hosting-provider should support PHP language (in other words, you hosting provider should be Unix-based). Also your hosting company should have Zend Optimizer installed (for today, it is installed on more than 95% all Unix hosting providers). Finally, your host should have installed a GD-lib for PGP. You should better ask about it your host admin.
How may I know if technical abilities of my host would be enough to install Adult-Engine? You’d better ask about it AdultWebware themselves. Technical support assistance is available anytime, any day, 24/7/356. I’m sure that they would answer all these questions much better than me.
— Hidden abilities.
What else is it interesting in this Adul-Engine you ask? Probably, we cannot give away such feature as content rotation periods for galleries. It could be useful in the next situation. Let us assume, that a user of one of your sites has bought one month access to your site. After entering it, this user sees, for example, only 30 galleries (and you have for example 40-80). After that, within a specified amount of time (a week, for ex.), user sees another 5 galleries. And this is accompanied with a news linke that: “Today we have new updates! 5 new galleries are available for you, click here to see them all”. And so on, so futher each 7 days a specified amount of galleries/categories will appear. As you see, such an ability allows to motivate your users to pay more interest to your resource as far as it is updated highly. As far as user will never know that you have uploaded all content at one day and made a schedule on half a year in advance.
Moreover, using such method you can smooth your content update periods. Users sees the only step-by-step, week-after-week content updating process (or on everyday basis – each day a user gets few new pics per day if needed). Yeah, I must admit that different settings variants are supported for specific needs of each webmaster may have. Ask AdultWebware about that.
— How to get a FREE DEMO?
Heey! Wanna see how it works live? Yeah? Sure? Well, go to www.adultwebware.com and see by yourself what you can do there.
I cannot keep myself silent and not to say that several our own sites are using this technology already. We are very happy with how this system works and how our new users are happy with highly updated good-looking and fast working members area. If you will need something that is not yet developed at the Adult-Engine, feel free to contact AdultWebware about that matter. Hardworking guys at AdultWebware will make a new features in Adult-Engine with love and energy as always.
For example, Adult-Engine could be used not just on pay sites, but also on AVS, TGP or TGP2 systems. Maybe you need Circle Jerk engine automation? Or something else we do not know? Feel free to contact us at www.adultwebware.com
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Your truly Nickolas, truenick@adultwebware.com
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