Gallery 3

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• Introduction
• GreyDragon Theme
• GreyDragon Theme: Features
• GreyDragon Theme: Download
• GreyDragon Theme: Installation
• GreyDragon Theme: Issues?
• Like it?
• Donations
• Other Modules and Themes
• Usefull links
• Testimonials

Gallery 3 Project Modules and Themes

If you are looking for nice, free PHP based solution to host your collection of images or photos, consider Menalto Gallery 3 Project. As you can see from the name it is now in 3rd iteration of development cycle and going strong.

I went this way few years ago myself when found Gallery v.2 to be nice solution for my own Photo Gallery.
At first, simple consumer, I become involved with development of v.3 of the Gallery and since worked creating many Modules and few Themes for my own use.

GreyDragon Theme

This is a custom theme built from ground up, adding many extra options. Supports many color and frame packs. I have tried minimize use of JS as much as possible shifting focus on proper CSS instead.

Features

• Tested/designed for 1280×1024 screen resolution.
• DIGG style paging in Albums and Individual Photo pages.
• Requires ShadowBox or Fancybox module for image preview. Support for slideshow mode.
• Over 30 options provided via theme’s Admin page.
• Color Packs support. Included: greydragon, slateblue, wind, carbon, blackhawk.
• Frame Packs support. Included: greydragon, android, book, darkglass, iphone, iphoto, simple, slide

Theme is free to use under GPL.

Download

Grey Dragon Theme v. 3.1.4

Installation

• Download and unpack package into Gallery’s themes folder. Please make sure “greydragon” folder is not duplicated.
• Login as Admin into your Gallery 3 instance and navigate to Admin\Appearance\Theme Choice
• Activate GreyDragon theme
• It is advised to visit Admin section of the theme and review provided options at Admin\Appearance\Theme Options

Supported browsers: Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10, Firefox 3.x, Opera, Chrome
Requires either Fancybox or Shadowbox modules to be installed and activated for popup-style image preview.
For more help deploying theme on your server refer to this great article about using themes inside Gallery 3.

Where to ask for support, report bugs and make feature requests?

Please post any requests in the appropriate plugin forum.

Like it?

If you like the theme or any other work done for G3 and would like to give back, here are some ways you can support future development:

• Say few nice words on the forum.
• Buy me a cup of coffee or two.
• Spread the word about my plug-in by writing about it on your blog, tweeting, digging, stumbling, etc.
• Use it, acnowledge my contribution by displaying copyright info

Donations (Thank you!)

You can donate to my coffee fund here.
Or you could send me an Amazon gift card (and I can buy a surprise for my wife encouraging her to allow continuing my involvement with the project). You will need my contact email address.

Full list of themes and modules for G3

Thank you, and I hope my work makes your gallery better and more popular!

Usefull links

When working on optimizing my site the following information did help improving it further:

• .htaccess and caching

Testimonials

Long standing GD Theme user. The GD Theme is very user friendly. I was able to create a fantastic gallery for my website using some of the many, many, options GD Theme offers. Thanks for the hard work and dedication to your theme and for allowing us the opportunity to use it. Gene

Gene S. Salisbury, President

GS Wallcoverings, LLC

I've used your Greydragon theme ever since I switched to using Gallery3. It looks very slick; it does everything that I want; it is easy to customise the appearance with its many options; image preloading makes it faster than other themes; the author continually develops it in response to feature requests; and he actively supports it. A very satisfied user and donor.

Brian Stewart

Cyberhalides Jazz

I've been using this [theme] since the start. It is by far the most attractive, feature packed and stable of the user-created skins for Gallery3.

Rhyull

First I’m new to G3. I was wanting to append my forum with a gallery and after doing a lot of looking and testing I settled on G3.
I tried all the themes I could find on the page at the mothership (Gallery homepage). I settled on graydragon. It’s so close to my forum’s default page it’s spooky.
It’s clean and neat, and so simple to use. Keep up the great work.
I just wish I could find a theme based on anime. Wishful thinking on my part…

Setishock

http://www.animeappeal.com

I’m a huge fan of this theme. I’ve got more than 90,000 pictures in my gallery3 running on a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop. It’s only for family photos. The GD theme is by far the most polished theme, easy to use and it’s still being developed! The theme options made me feel like a kid in a candy shop. Thanks for a great theme and keep up the good work!

Jklobo

The greydragon theme is fantastic. It’s clean, stable and feature rich. It took me a while to decide to move to G3 but with a there like this one, I could no longer resist. Thanks!

Ed