Fast Gallery

The Drupal 7 Version of Fast Gallery is going to be awesome!!! Please help.

Fast Gallery is a simple, lightweight, and fast image gallery. Making albums is as easy as putting images or videos into folders and uploading them to the gallery directory. It is fast because it is not based on nodes and doesn't implement some of the more complex features of larger gallery systems.

Uses Thickbox or Lightbox as the Javascript image display interface. Lightbox slideshows are also supported. You may also turn off the Javascript display framework, in which case thumbnails are linked to the original image with no extra frills. Imagecache is supported as well, for improved thumbnail generation. If you do not have the Imagecache module installed, Fast Gallery will generate the thumbnails cache internally through PHP functions.

Quickstart

1. Upload your images and videos in their folders to your webserver.
2. Type in the gallery path, title, and alias on the General settings page. The alias may not contain the characters: [space] \ * : ? < > | ".
3. Specify in the caption display dropdowns what you want to show as captions underneath images. There can be up to 3 fields.
4. Click Save Settings at the bottom of the page.
5. Click on Clear DB and then Rescan at the bottom of the page.
6. If you are using Imagecache, go to the Advanced settings page. Select the Imagecache preset for thumbnails and for full-size display. Use if you don't want to use Imagecache to resize the image (in which case the Internal Cache would be used). If you want custom pre-made Imagecache presets, click on Install IC Presets and reload the Advanced settings page. You should now be able to select the new presets ("fast_gallery_thumb" and "fast_gallery_big") in the dropdowns. If you aren't using Imagecache, the default dimension of a thumbnail generated by the Internal Cache is 150x100px and can be changed on the Advanced settings page.
7. Make sure that the width of "#fast_gallery .single-image" in the fast_gallery.css file is equal to or slightly wider than your thumbnails.
8. Now go to the gallery, as set by the alias you used above. There should be a link in the Navigation menu. If you prefer not to have this in the Navigation menu, go to the Menus administration page and disable it there.
9. Make note of how many thumbnails fit across the page. Go back to the General settings page and type that number info "Number of images per row". Click Save Settings at the bottom.
10. If you have thumbnails for non-image files, upload them to the same folder as the associated files. Give them the same name as the original files but with the extension ".screenshot.jpg". They must be of type JPG. The EXIF data of this thumbnail is used for the caption. The full-size of the linked file is set to the dimensions of this JPG screenshot. All files without screenshots will be given a generic thumbnail from the images folder of fast_gallery module folder.
11. If you have a custom thumbnail for a folder, upload it to the folder with the name "folder.jpg". It has to be a JPG. The JPG's EXIF description is used for the folder's teaser text, which is shown when the user hovers on the folder link.

-> Here an example of what flv videos look like: http://www.rapsli.ch/drupal/fast_gallery/Videos

This module is sponsered by www.schaerwebdesign and www.rapsli.ch
Special thanks to Nicholas (www.nyanginator.com) and for all the work and features he put into this module

New Screeshots and screencasts will come....

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