If you have been thinking of setting up a website and really wanted to be able to have a more community driven site, then Siteframe is definitely a choice you need to look into. The Siteframe CMS (Content Management System) is much more heavily geared to sites with a lot of users who want to set up their own blogs, send e-mails to each other within the system, and have their own mini sites within your website. It’s a truly light weight CMS that allows you, as administrator, to create the kind of experiences for your users that is going to seriously increase the size of your web community. With Siteframe templates, website owners can customize their sites to look any way they please.
Of course, an image gallery is another important bit for any serious web community and you can do this easily with Siteframe. They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, so this is a great way to get people interested in your site.
The process of setting up an image gallery in this CMS is extremely simple. Let’s take a look at how it’s done:
First things first, meaning you need to log into your Siteframe admin panel using your customary password. Once you’re in, click on the ‘New Folder’ link in the navigation panel. Use that handy drop down box to select ‘Image Gallery’. Once you’ve got that, click ‘Submit’.
Once you’ve submitted your choice, you’ll be taken to a page listing the options that you have when it comes to an image gallery done Siteframe style. As mentioned earlier in this article, this is a very light weight CMS and as such, it is extremely simple to create your gallery, but at the same time you have plenty of options. You can even have these galleries set up in such a way that each of the users on your site can create their own to share with others.
Here is a rundown of the basic options you have when it comes to a Siteframe image gallery:
Folder Name – As you would expect, this is where you name your image gallery. Try for something descriptive that explains what the gallery’s images should be organized around, such as a theme or a specific type of photo.
Description – This is where you describe the gallery and keep in mind that search engines are going to be reading this text so if you have a certain type of viewer you want to interest, cater to the way they would search for your images. Be sure this description clearly states the sort of images you want uploaded to this gallery if you plan to allow users to submit their own images.
Sort Documents – You’ve got a lot of options here in how the images get sorted. The drop down box will let you sort them by date they were uploaded (so you could, for example, display the newest first) or by their titles, etc.
Group Items – This option allows you to have your images grouped according to the way you’ve set them to be sorted. Handy for creating categories of images.
Folder Pages – With this, you can show your folders’ contents as pages.
Public Folder – This is where you decide if you are going to allow your site’s users to upload their own images to this particular gallery.
Max Submissions Per User – You simply enter the number of the maximum images you’ll allow any given user to submit. This helps you avoid getting your gallery stuffed by a trouble making user before you have a chance to sort things out.
Allow Rating – Users can rate this particular gallery if you check this option.
Allow Comments – Do you want users to be able to comment on this gallery? If so, then check this option.
So now you know how to set up your own image gallery using the ever flexible community building CMS, Siteframe!
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