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Hey guys, I've been doing some work implementing a new gallery system for the site, it seems to be working very well thus far.. I've spent the past 5 or so hours configuring it, so there's still some things to iron out, but it's looking good. All users have had albums automatically created, so all you need to do is upload your files... I've currently got video uploads set to disabled, as I'd like to get the images working properly first.
 
I'm looking for people who are interested in testing out the new gallery, just test out the features, and let me know what you think is good, the bad and the ugly!
 

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Note: this is still in the testing phase, and I thank you all for your patience during the integration.
Testers please reply to this forum topic with your findings and opinions! Cheers again!
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Ok she works good ;)... other then the fact i once again uploaded pics directly from my camera it didnt work :p but yea looks good, and i like the Applet that uploads them nice and simple :)!   umm other then that i have on a few occasions gotton stuck in a loop when using the drop down menus (e.g. edit album)... it essentually keeps reloading the page and not showing up.. i then have to refresh a couple times and it works lol...   umm but yea sweeeeeet :) i been wanting the gallery to come back for a while now.   Cheers

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 Thanks for the quick feedback man, I see what you mean, it should be easy enough to fix! I'll get back to ya!

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Okay, so we appear to be having issues with uploading images with .JPG extensions. I have been instructed by the developers that the issue may be that the server is not recognizing the extension for the mime type. I have added a new MIME type in the Apache file in the Control Panel, but still it fails to work, I continue to receive an error when attempting to match the MIME Type in the software to the MIME Type I created in Apache... I've contacted our server technical support and awaiting a response to this query.

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I've spent the last few days trying to figure out why your images weren't working, and the support from the hosting company were less than helpful! So I decided to dig a bit deeper and figured that it had to either be MIME Types or the Image Toolkit. Playing with the MIME types hasn't worked so I removed the priority from the GD Toolkit and replaced it with the ImageMagick Toolkit, I tested your photos again and it appears to have resolved the issue...   Please check from your end when you get some time, cheers man!  

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hey steve :).. yea its workin great now.. i tried the one of mine you re-uploaded and it worked great.. i then uploaded a few more pics directly from my camer and it worked great as well   Btw i am now using Opera and the slow/wierdness issue is no longer present... damn IE lol..   thanks :)!

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haha yeah sweet! How is Opera? is it free?? LOL I've never used it before...    Glad to hear the gallery is working good for you now... I hope you like the updated theme too!  Cheers man

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That's very easy to use Steve.............worked a treat...........I now have a new album...................just need to link to the header of the main page.

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Cheers Andrew, yeah I still need to do something about the main page link... I'm currently looking at configuring the rating system for the images, and then I'll get the albums created from the old gallery (which has 56 albums and 626 images)... I am looking to do this very very soon, hopefully will get it started early this week!   Appreciate the feedback! Cheers again..

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sounds great steve :)   yea opera is free, its quite good.. i have it runnin on all the machines i use down at the school network i run and never had any issues with it..   keep up the good work mate :) hopefully when you get most of this up and runnin we can start nicking some people from cordiapower lol... honestly the new form system with the new gallery will be a much better setup then CP's site. 

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Hummmm...........most of the people from Cordiapower are already on here...............I was one of them and so is Steve.

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haha yes this is true! Things can only get better from here on in...  I want CF to be feature rich and easy to use, I feel we're slowly achieving it! LOL I've almost uploaded your photos into your album Andrew! ;) Enjoy!   Anyone else who needs their photos transferred to the new gallery, please log into the gallery at http://www.cordiafreaks.com/gallery and your album will be created automatically when you log in for the first time. Then let me know and I'll happily transfer the photos over for you! Or goto: http://mlm-success.info/gallery and locate the pics yourself if you prefer!    Have a good one! 

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Thanks Steve..............your a legend!

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It's my absolute pleasure! Saves you doing it again! LOL 

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 I'm currently looking to move the Gallery navigation links into the main site Menu at the top of the page, it should be cleaner! I'll let you'll know how it goes! 

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sweet.. :) btw you dont have to bother about puttin my old ones in ;).. i think most of them whernt any good anyways lol 

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haha already done, there were only 4 in your old album from memory... A bad photo is better than no photo! LOL  Good work! 

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I have thoroughly tested the gallery and very happy with how well it's running, I've upgraded the status to 'online', so all menus are now active. If anyone encounters any issues, please report them here!  Thanks guys   Steve

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Great work hey mate :)   it looks good and works good :) 

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Thanks man, it's getting there! LOL!!!   Just a message to everyone about the gallery, it is intended to host images of Cordias and people only, if anyone uploads another make/model vehicle, it may be removed without notice. However, you are more than welcome to share these pictures anywhere in our forum, using the insert image button as normal...   Cheers guys, and I apologise for any inconvenience. Steve

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Ok, spent this arvo working on the gallery... we now have larger thumbnails and I've removed ratings and a lot of the unnecessary text... Also, added shadows to all the image thumbnails, album thumbnails, and regular sized photos.