Simple Gallery - The next phase

Been thinking a lot about my Simple Gallery Management Project.
So far, it's been downloaded ~200 times (130 for version 2.0), and after implementing ~6 projects with it, I'm thinking about taking it to the next step, and making it an even simpler, more generic CMS.
This means generalizing the database, redoing the management portal into a cool, hierarchy-like content portal.

I'll still be using HTML/ JS/ PHP (For json API)/ MySQL as a platform, simply because the cheapest hosting services are under that platform. I could implement it with node.js and mongodb, but that would be overkill. Only when I implement a simple social network, then I might use these platforms - There are few services (Like dotcloud) which do node.js and mongodb hosting, and they are not meant for the SOHO customer requiring our services (myartichoke).

This also got me thinking - What about social networks? Does anyone really need to implement a social network anymore? The 2 major risers in the social network battlefield these days (instagram and pinterest) are less about social, and more about sharing and following, rather than full fledged social networks. This means that these social networks have the 'core' social features (contacts, feed, responses and likes) built into them, but not much more - Facebook and Google+ have a whole envelope of features which try to integrate the web into their sites.

Of course, all these networks also have RESTful web services, allowing for third party developers to integrate into their network as well. This has also become a common practice.

I've also considered multi tag support, but came to realize that I'm using this feature as a 'category' (news/ objects/ shows etc.) when implementing sites - That is why I'll probably change 'tags' to 'categories', and maybe add multi tag support later.

In scope as well is making the GUI a little more '2d' and consistent. Adding an integrated toolbar per item (Like twitter's), maybe convince my wife to design some buttons for me :))

I'll update soon, once the new version begins to show signs of life.

Some updates...

Here's another one:
http://www.pninas.com/

Design was pretty straight forward, One page is all I needed (index.html + index.js).
I think I'm improving... This one was quite easy and fun to do.

In other notes, the simple blog is shaping up. In the beginning, I thought about how to differentiate the system from, say, um, Blogger... And decided on focusing on these features:

1. No Rich Text Editing. (So we'll be iPad compatible that way)
2. One file attachment per post. User can then decide what it's going to be.
3. Sample (Reference) viewer should be nicely designed, and with a separate (Maybe inline?) CSS.
4. This time, try github for hosting. Just for fun.

In the meantime, Simple Gallery Management has gone through one more phase of update - Adding an attachment option for news post. You can get it here.

Tagging is there, but I haven't written the link between tags and items... Just being a bit lazy, I guess :)

There's another project shaping up, but I'm trying to think if it has commercial potential...
Stay tuned.

New Simple Gallery Management Version available

This is it... Finally.
Finished work on it last evening, and here it goes.

I've added some nice GUI (click and edit like flickr) for it.

It's still not 100% done - Tagging and some more features would be added, but all the basics are there!

You can get it here:

sourceforge.net/projects/simplegalleryma/files/

... And, of course, it's 100% free (MIT license).

Enjoy!

We've been indexed....

Google have indexed this blog, which means we've gained another link to Einat's site. BTW - This site should be reposted, as it has a link to myartichoke (My wife's site).

The next projects:

- An update to Maya's site. Should be an easy one.

- Another dynamic site, to which I will add 'updates' section support in my simple gallery management project.

First entry

In which i can see that rte and ipad do not work well.... Knew that already, but still hurts.

First site:

Einat sarig reich is a talented, well established photographer from Ramat Hasharon.

Site is written in plain html and js, back end is php, based on my simple gallery management open source project.

Actually, this entry is also for trying to see how my SEO works. Goddady's SEO tools are ok, but they don't really do the job - There's a major problem with Google indexing their sitemap files, because they use redirects messages (302) to the file - Google then fails to download the sitemap because of that.

Enjoy