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TheJester12 Member
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Hey guys, I've been a longtime fan of Zenphoto and have used it on both my personal site as well as a client site.

Right now I'm starting a new website called the CMS Design Resource where people can learn about different CMS's and Internet Applications like Zenphoto.

I could really use a few people to lend their expert opinions on Zenphoto to spread the word about Zenphoto and let others know what you think about it.

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Thanks for listing Zenphoto. We really appreciate spreading the word...:-) A very nice looking site, bettter than other sites of the same topic I know...:-)

    It would be nice if you also could point out that Zenphoto is quite more than just a "simple online gallery". Especially with the Zenpage CMS plugin it is actually a specialized CMS for portfolio/gallery focussed sites. With Zenphoto 1.2.4 Zenpage will also be included as an official plugin. Some info here if unknown: http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/zenpage-a-cms-plugin-for-zenphoto/
    Maybe it should also be noted that you can also manage video and audio content.

    Development: community driven
    Wouldn't "open source" generally be the better term especially as you compare it with "commerical"? Actually we have actualy a team that does the core development which probably counts for all free CMSs.

    Anyway, it's your site, I won't tell you what to write..:-)

    PS: You should submit your own site to our showcase, I think it's not in there right now..:-)
  • TheJester12 Member
    Good points acrylian, I am trying to not talk about plugin functionality on most CMS's, because then you could probably claim that every CMS could basically do everything. Zenphoto is kind of a special case though, and I hadn't exactly figured out how to treat Zenpage. I suppose I'll make some revisions to mention it soon.

    As far as Community vs. Open Source... I did mention that its open source, I guess my train of that was that not all open source projects are community-developed sorts of things. A lot of commercial projects are now open source as well. Open source just basically means that the source code isn't hidden and can be modified, correct?

    lol, oh yeah... actually my site is on there (sheepish grin) JesseSutherland.com, its mostly a Wordpress site, but the photo gallery is driven by Zenphoto. Which I'm a huge fan of.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    We are all fans of Zenphoto, that's why we are here, right?...:-))

    I can fully understand the point about the plugins in general (never mind I am just biased on Zenphoto...:-))
    Regarding Open Source, I guess you are right, "open source" vs "commerical" is not really good either. I was just thinking loud I guess.

    PS: One general suggestion: It would be nice if there was a prev/next on the CMS detail view page so you could skip through them instead of returning to the list. How are they sorted actually? Lastest descending?
  • TheJester12 Member
    Good idea with the prev/next... I'll try and implement that soon. The order will be based on their rankings (though it would be cool for people to be able to sort them how they want) but there aren't a ton of rankings yet, so its just based on the order they were published. Lame, I know. =)
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