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With the development of Gallery 3 well underway and in constant evolvement I'm thinking quite a lot about Photo Gallery theme development. I have some ideas about what I would like to do in a Gallery 3 theme, but nothing is decided as I have yet to sit down and actually try to design a mockup or anything.

So far it seems like the javascript library of choice in Gallery 3 will be jQuery which should make things a fair bit easier for me to work with. Also, the abundance of plugins available for jQuery is certain to help me out with adding some nice little effects to the final theme.

I'm looking forward to theming Gallery 3 as the theme system matures, so far it's looking very good and the current incarnation should make it fairly easy to get started with Gallery 3 theming. Hopefully this means that we will see a lot of great themes produced in the time ahead!

For now though, I would like to ask for inspiration. Do you know of a great photo gallery theme that you would like to show me? It doesn't have to be css/html only, flash based sites work for inspiration as well even if my theme most certainly won't be flash based at all.

So, what do you say? Want to help me find inspiration for a great Gallery 3 theme?

So, in a true Halloween spirit a new monster has been released to the general public. Ok, it might not be a monster just yet, but the aim is to get a "production use" Gallery 3 product ready for general release on February 1st 2009.

Check out the current code via SVN:
svn co http://gallery.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gallery/gallery3/trunk gallery3

More details are available on the Gallery-Devel mailinglist.

The countdown has begun, T-92 days to go.

Simpleviewer, the well known Flash image viewing application has finally got it's Gallery 2 companion.

"alecmyers" has made a Gallery 2 plugin available that enables you to put up Simpleviewer as a front-end to a Gallery 2 album. Finally you can combine the back end features of Gallery 2 management, with the stylish presentation Simpleviewer offers.

The plugin is still in active development, and has not really been officially released yet, but you can find details and download information in the following forum thread.

If you want to have a quick look at how it works, check out my test install.

Gallery 2.2.2 is now available for download. As a minor stability release it adds no new features and includes bug fixes only.

Over 30 bugs have been fixed in this stability release. Some highlights are:

* Fixed WebDAV for OS X / GNOME clients - Items are now recognized as images
* Fixed fallback theme / theme reset functionality
* Fixed PHP error in fetchWebPage() on too many redirects
* Fixed rewrite rule for embedded core.DownloadItem
* Fixed Upgrade Code for IBM DB2 / MS SQL Server

Read on for more details and upgrade instructions

Gallery 2.2 RC1 is now available for download! This is the first of two release candidates before Gallery 2.2 will be complete.

New Features Include:

• 1. Downloadable Plugins.
• 2. Added support for themes to display dynamic albums.
• 3. Watermarking changes
• 4. New themes: Carbon and Ajaxian
• 5. New WebDAV module to mount Gallery as network device on your computer.
• 6. New module to send Ecards.
• 7. New Digibug module for prints from digibug.com.
• 8. Added support for Flash Video and Windows ASF video.
• 9. Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications.

Read the rest of the details in the official announcement