We launched X3 Beta a few months ago, and several users are already using it in production. Although there is still a lot of features to include, within the next 2 months we will be launching a public release of X3.

Imagevue X3 Demo
Preview the new Imagevue X3 gallery.
https://demo.flamepix.com/

You may wish to check mjau-mjau.com also, which is running X3, and was used as a prototype-website while developing Imagevue X3.

Imagevue X3 Forums
Find more information about the Imagevue X3 gallery in our new X3 forums.

Imagevue X3 Documentation
Some basic X3 documentation is available already.

Imagevue X3 Dedicated Hosting
We are also launching our own dedicated X3 hosting service at flamepix.com, which offers superior speed, performance and compatibility. Find more information in this forum post.

Imagevuex.com Maintenance

The next few months will also see many changes on the imagevuex.com website, as we are looking to create a new home for the Imagevue X3 project. We want to get rid of the tedious WordPress CMS, and replace it with a new design running from our own Imagevue X3 framework!

We have currently closed comments on this website, so if you wish to communicate, please use the forums or contact us directly.

FAQ

Why can’t I login to download any more?
We have currently removed the login to download Imagevue X2. Instead, you can just navigate to the downloads section, and simply download latest version of X2. You will still need to use your license to authorize the gallery, so nothing really changes

How can I download X3 Beta?
We currently offer X3 beta only per request so that we can limit the issues we may need to deal with. Join the forums, or send us a request us by email.

What will be the price of X3 when it is launched?
We have not yet decided new prices for Imagevue X3, but likely it will be similar to the prices for X2, and current X2 license-owners will be offered a 50% discount.

When is the public launch date of Imagevue X3?
X3 will be launched public in the next few months, within May. Until then, the beta is available.

Can I easily upgrade from Imagevue X2 to X3?
You can upgrade your X2 content (folders and images) to X3, but you will need to apply all new settings, and re-create page settings manually. The reason for this, is that X2 and X3 are two entirely different gallery platforms in technical and functional terms.

Download›X2.8 Gallery Demo›

• Mobile Gallery
  We are hereby proud to launch a dedicated mobile version of the Imagevue gallery, which is basically a frontend exclusively for smartphones and touchscreen devices. This version will automatically display for all devices accessing the gallery from any touchscreen- or smartphone device. With the new Mobile gallery, Imagevue now covers all platforms: laptops and desktops with flash support will see the flash version, while mobile devices will be redirected to the mobile version … the best of both worlds! The mobile gallery comes with in a attractive interface optimized for touch, with support for swiping between images, and support for video (*mp4 only). The mobile gallery comes in two flavors: light and dark. Screenshots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Get out your iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, iPads and check out the demo:
  Mobile Light Theme›Mobile Dark Theme›
  * If you are checking the above links from a non-mobile device, please reset your gallery afterwards.

  Mobile Setup Guide›

• New Themes (flash version)
  With Imagevue X2.8, we are also launching a batch of beautiful themes, including a new default theme called ‘carbonizer’. All the new themes come with a selection of backgrounds to choose from, as well as an optional stylesheet with a strong color contrast. See new theme demos:

  Carbonizer›CarbonizerX›Illuminati›Lucido›Lucida›

  New Themes Guide›

• New Video Player
  Introducing a brand new video player that supports FLV and MP4 files, improves fullscreen rendering and has better buffering. The new video player by default opens in a new lightbox window to avoid complications with the flash gallery. By exporting your videos to MP4, your videos will now be available both for the mobile gallery as well as the flash gallery! See demo:

  Demo›Read more›

• New Lightbox Feature
  With Imagevue X2.8, there is a new lightbox feature available, which makes it possible to open images, video, maps, pages or other links in a nice lightbox layer. By default, we have substituted the “open in window” and “open in popup” options with the new lightbox option. You also have the option to trigger lightbox from the main menu, or from text links in your descriptions or text pages. Try clicking any of the Photo, Video or Map links from the demo text page:

  Demo›Read more›

• Map Links
  Imagevue now displays interactive Google Maps for any photos that contain location geo-data. This can be either if the image is taken with a GPS-enabled device, or if you have tagged the location in the photo with an application like iPhoto. See Examples:

  Demo›

• Nice URLs
  With this release, we decided to make the URL nicer. Instead of having links like /#/content/path/photo.jpg, we are just removing the static content item, and instead have a nicer short URL /#/path/photo.jpg. Not only does this look nicer, but it is also more secure as external visitors can’t easily see the direct path to your files and folders. Imagevue SWF is still backwards compatible and supports “#/content”, but we recommend removing this item if you have external links.
• All user configs, themes and languages are stored in iv-config folder
• [x] HTML [x] Flash [x] Mobile – Platform/device selector for folders in admin
• Themes in admin display with descriptions
• Dedicated Menu Logo option
  settings › menu.mainmenu.menu_logo
  read more ›
• Caching for very large galleries if iv-config/cache is writable
• Improved visibility for large controls next/previous
  theme › controls.largecontrols.arrow_color
• PHP5.4 Compatibility
• Revamped Demo/Examples
• HTML startpath option
  settings › settings.htmlstartpath
• Contact form sends e-mails with an image
• Added bottom_right for image text positions
  settings › image.text.textX.bottom_right
• Contact form spam protection
• New settings for thumbnails horizontal_amount and vertical_amount
  settings › thumbnails.thumbnails.horizontalamount
settings › thumbnails.thumbnails.verticalamount
• Fixed thumbnails layout bug
• Background Color for transparent PNG thumbnails and images
  settings › thumbnails.thumbnail.backgroundColor
• SEO -> Google Analytics Global option
• Fixed sharebutton when navigating between text page and thumbnails
• Fixed share in main menu
• Various minor SWF fixes
• Various usability and general improvements

PS!

We will be rolling out new docs for the mobile gallery, new themes and other feature soon!

Download›X2 Gallery Demo›X2 Admin Demo›

(Empty your browser cache to experience changes correctly in the demo’s)

X2.7 Highlights

The updatelog for this release is enormous, so we have made a summary of important features:

• Fotomoto E-commerce › Shopping Cart & E-commerce integration – Docs | Demo
• Multiple Languages › Multiple language support – Docs | Demo
• Folder Caching › Faster gallery switching with folder caching in SWF
• New Sharing Menu › Endless Options for the sharing menu – Docs
• New Menu Icons › Add any icons to your menu – Docs
• Improved Form functionality › Dramatically improved form functionality in the Gallery
• Flash features and bug fixes › Loads of fixes and new features!
• Revamped HTML Gallery › Plenty of new features for the Html gallery!
• New Admin functionality › loaded with new Admin features!

Important Release Notes!

We have moved the config folder to the gallery root folder /iv-config/, so that upgrading future versions will be easier. Basically, all user-changes from the admin are now stored in this folder, and it can easier by excluded when upgrading. There is a migration script included in X2.7 that will auto-migrate all files and delete the old folder, so the process should be entirely transparent. However if some issues arise, you can move your user-files manually from /iv-includes/config/ to /iv-config/ – Make sure you’ve renamed configUser.xml to config.xml

Imagevue X2.7 Updatelog

Flash Gallery

• Added Shopping Cart & E-commerce integration with Fotomoto – Docs | Demo
• Added support for multiple languages in file- and folder titles- and descriptions, text-pages and link (menu- and link function) – Docs | Demo
  Example input:

  [english]This is an English title[/english][french]Il s'agit d'un titre français[/french]

  • When accessing the gallery with ?language=english (or no parameter), it will show the English text, and when accessing the gallery with ?language=french, it will show the French text.
  • You can still use standard single-language input for those item where you don’t need/want multi-language support. In other words, this feature is optional per field.
  • In the example above, there is 2 languages, but you can add as many as you like.
  • If a language is used that a text is not made for, it will use the text from the first language item.
• Added internal SWF folder caching to speed up the gallery. This feature comes into effect when loading a folder that has already been viewed once in the same session. Next time the same folder is viewed, it does not need to load the folder data.
• Added support for frontend thumbnails creation from the Imagevue gallery. If you don’t create thumbnails for new images from the admin, they will be created on first visit of the gallery. However, we still recommend using the admin to create all thumbnails.
• Added optional rounded corners for thumbnails. Sets a slightly rounded corner on the thumbnail frame. Looks best with frames that are wider than 1 px, or when using the box-setting
  theme › thumbnails.thumbnails.frame.rounded
• Added optional thumbnail background-box. Sets a symmetrical background-frame for all folders that contain different-size thumbnails (resize-to-box). Has no effect for folders where all thumbnails are the same size – Forum
  theme › thumbnails.thumbnails.frame.box
• Added support for hundreds of social icons in the main menu. As long as they are available in the AddThis services list, you can use them in the Imagevue menu. To add an icon to a menu item, simply navigate to the folder from your admin, and change the title to “[servicecode]Title Here”. Full overview of available icons can be viewed here. Also, larger icons are displayed in the menu folderdescription tooltip when using a social icon, unless you have defined another previewimage. – Documentation
• Added support for custom icons in the menu. Simply copy any icons you want to use into your iv-includes/images/icons/ folder, and add them to any menu-item simply by referring to them through the title. For example:

  [filename]Folder Title

  We recommend using 16x16px icons, but you can also use larger icons up to 32px. We have already included a selection of icons in the iv-includes/images/icons/ folder that you can use in your menu as desired. – Documentation

• Added new node-graphic for menu items that contain sub-folders. This graphic is effectively substituting the [+] and – characters that earlier have emphasized a sub-folder. Now, this item can not be toggled on/off with CSS any longer, but instead uses the setting:
  settings › menu.mainmenu.items

  The color is by default inherited from theme foreground_color, but can be changed manually:

  theme › menu.mainmenu.menuitem.node_color
• Added support for all sharing services that are available in the AddThis services list. Simply add the code of any service to the sharing services setting. – Forum | Docs.
  settings › misc.sharing.services
• Added email as an option in the share menu. The email button uses the Imagevue sendlink e-mailer, unlike the other sharing services which use the external AddThis API – Forum.
  settings › misc.sharing.services
• Added new option sharebutton_click under sharing settings, which sets the mouse-click event for the main share button. If set to ‘menu‘, mouse-click will toggle the native Imagevue sharing menu. If set to ‘extended‘, mouse-click will display the sharing popover html layer with extended sharing options, just like the ‘more‘ button. Also, if all services are disabled from the sharing settings, the sharebutton click will default to open the extended menu, since there are no items to display in the native menu.
  settings › misc.sharing.sharebutton_click
• Added support for Flash transparency. You can use this feature to display Html behind the Imagevue gallery, although we do not recommend this because of performance issues and obvious placement issues. To apply this feature, you need to add

  wmode: 'transparent'

  and flashvar:

  transparent: true

  into your document. Normally this is achieved by editing iv-includes/templates/index.gallery.phtml unless you have a custom html document. – Forum

• Added auto sorting setting for the audio player. This way, audio tracks can now be sorted manually from the admin if required.
  settings › audioplayer.sorting
• Improved Form functionality
  The following features are available to all pages/modules with input fields: contact form, send-link form and password form:
  • The gallery does not exit from full-screen any longer when input form pages appear. Instead, the gallery exits from full-screen only if visitor clicks an input field. On form submission, the gallery attempts to go full-screen again if it was in this state before the form was focused.
  • Fixed fullscreen_click bug scenario. Gallery goes full-screen on first click, only if visitors first click is NOT a form input field.
  • Text in input fields for contact form and send-link form are retained after submit. This way if there is an error, the visitor can go back without loosing any of the text they entered.
  • Contact window closes automatically after successful submission, just like the send-link window (does not work for contact form embedded in textpage)
  • Added basic error indicators (red) when fields are not filled by visitor. All required fields must be filled before the visitor can click “send”.
  • “Tab” through form items with “enter” key (except for multiline input fields)
  • “Enter” key submits forms if “send” button is in focus.
• Add new theme CSS classes for the main menu. – CSS Docs
  .mainmenu_password {}
  .mainmenu_share {}
  .mainmenu_level1 {}
  .mainmenu_level2 {}
  .mainmenu_level3 {}
  .mainmenu_level4 {}
  .mainmenu_level5 {}
• Added Inverse Controls option to inverse the direction of all next/previous controls in the gallery. Useful in certain slideshows where you want the left/previous button to show the next image in order, photo-blog style.
  settings › controls.inverse_controls
• Added new setting scale_limit, which prevents the image from scaling larger than 100% of original size when the visitor uses the zoom buttons. – Forum
  settings › image.image.scale_limit
• Added the possibility to run Imagevue-native functions directly from the main menu – Forum.
• Added “View in Html” feature, which allows the visitor to switch the gallery to the corresponding html page from the flash gallery. This feature is available under settings for image-click, thumbnails-click, main-controls, image-buttons and right-click – Forum.
• Added new mainmenu items setting. Now you can choose what items to display in the main menu, instead of using CSS to hide them.
  settings › menu.mainmenu.items
• Added new video loop setting for the video player.
  settings › misc.video.loop
• Added more context buttons to videos. Available items are inherited from imagebuttons, excluding items that do not apply for video files.
• Added new feature auto-open image if there is only 1 image in the folder. It will skip thumbnails mode and open image directly. – Forum
• Added toggleplay option to imagebuttons, and fixed icon – Forum
  settings › image.imagebuttons.buttons
• Added new setting show_title to enable or disable titles for textpages without having to use CSS.
  settings › textpage.show_title
• Removed embedded social media icons in the Imagevue SWF, because now we load external icons for share and main menu. This shaves off 30kb.
• Fixed occasional bug in menu, where the menu does not collapse properly after moving mouse cursor out of menu – Forum.
• Fixed small bug in calculation of menu width, and changed default theme-config so that menu is more compact by changing the minimum_width value from 200 to 0:
  theme › menu.mainmenu.menuitem.minimum_width
• Fixed active state for current menu item when gallery is accessed through a # direct link – Forum.
• Fixed so that Imagevue exits fullscreen when clicking a share button as to accommodate the sharing window for the specific service.
• Fixed disable preview-image for folders with password-protection. Preview-image only becomes available after successful login to folder – Forum.
• Fixed bug with large controls where the arrows may get stuck when navigating between images at different width – Forum
• Fixed Textpage bug, where long textpages sometimes appear without scrollbar, cropped by the stage – Forum.
• Fixed Textpage bug when using multiple instances of the same image in a single textpage.
• Fixed incorrect placement of share-button in thumbnails page that occurs sometimes- Forum
• Fixed position of thumbnails tooltip for folders with variable (resize-to-box) thumbnail sizes.
• Fixed largecontrols so that when autohide=false, it does not show the background color behind the arrow-buttons. – Forum
  settings › controls.largecontrols.autohide
• Fixed Share button in imagebuttons to only display if sharing is globally enabled – Forum
  settings › misc.sharing.enabled
• Fixed bug in thumbnail-scroller where preview-image may not appear if mouse hovers over the thumbnail while it attempts to load.
• Fixed bug in thumbnails page buttons, when resizing browser up and thumbnails update to display a single page.
• Fixed warning in IE for swfmacmousewheel.js
• Fixed wmode:opaque transparency issues in various browsers for compatibility with external services like Addthis, Facebook and Fotomoto.
• Fixed Z-index issue for share-button in thumbnails mode. Now, the thumbnails tooltip hovers in front of the share button.
• Fixed so that maincontrols items can be accessed from folder parameters – Forum
  settings › controls.maincontrols.items

Admin / Html

• New: Fotomoto integration
• New: Revamped HTML Gallery
• New: Multi-language support in Flash and HTML galleries
• New: Improved Caching
• New: Thumbnails are created from the Gallery, no need to login to admin
• New: GPS Location in HTML Gallery
• New: Sharing in HTML Gallery
• New: Custom icons for menu items
• New: “View as: Text” in Admin
• New: Folder Preview Image can be removed
• New: Keyboard controls in HTML gallery
• New: Video and Audio Player in HTML Gallery and Admin
• New: Custom thumbnails for non-image files
• New: Editor for Email Templates
• New: Custom CSS editor
• New: Force From in Emails which helps to resolve email issues with GoDaddy
• New: BCC: Owner when somebody shares a link
• New: Automated Authorization check in admin
• New: Files/Folders stats
• New: Disable Admin Bar setting
• New: Disable EXIF/IPTC settings
• New: Ability to overwrite files on upload
• New: iPad stylesheet added, removes the link to Flash Gallery on iPad
• New: Random sorting for files
• New: Sitemap speed up
• New: Portuguese Language added
• New: Icelandic Language added
• New: Latvian Language added
• New: Disabling Meta info does not disable sorting on date taken
• New: Flash player auto-detect
• New: XMP support in meta-data
• Fixed: Improved XML error handling
• Fixed: Custom thumbnail creator is now correctly calculates thumbnail scale ratio
• Fixed: Missing titles for mp3 files on some servers
• Fixed: Better auto-expanding textareas
• Fixed: Minus sign is allowed in folder titles
• Fixed: Spaces in paths don’t break links in emails (not that it’s recommended to use spaces)
• Fixed: Cache is being recreated if there is an error in XML
• Fixed: For for image sharing for IIS/Win servers
• Fixed: Small improvements in admin
• Fixed: Default files sorting
• Fixed: IE9 Fixes
• Fixed: Bug with multiple background selectors
• Fixed: Better indexing

What’s next?

Horizontal menu, Guestbook, new video-player with youtube support, new themes, dedicated touchpad- and mobile versions, native stats, Ken Burns filemod.

Download›X2 Gallery Demo›X2 Admin Demo›

Imagevue X2.6 Updatelog

• Social Media Sharing – Read More. You can also check the demo gallery to see how the sharing button works.
• Multiple Background Images – Now you can use multiple background images in your theme. You can for example have a main background, a logo, and an interactive layer
• Thumbnail Editor – Did you ever wish you could change a specific thumbnail? With the new admin thumbnail editor, you can now edit a thumbnail so that it is trimmed just the way you want it! No more cropped heads or missing context.
• Rejuvenated text page editor – We now support paragraph tags properly, align options and font color selector
• Added Mac OSX MouseWheel Support – Available on windows for some time, you can now use the mouse trackpad/mousewheel to scroll text pages and zoom in on images – Forum
• Global Password – You can now set a global password for your gallery by setting a password for your content folder. Visitors will need to enter a password to enter your gallery. PS! Password on the content folder are non-recurisve.
• Fixed “jumping link” on text pages – Forum
• Recursive Passwords – You can now set password for a parent folder, and all child folders will inherit this password. PS! The password will only prompt if a subfolder is clicked, or if the parent folder has files.
• Added Dashboard to admin – Stay tuned with updates and news from Imagevue directly from your admin dashboard (RSS+Twitter)
• Auto-expanding text areas in admin
• New XML parser should increase performance a bit
• Fixed bug with negative values in config
• Forced thumbnails refresh in folders listings
• Russian language corrected
• Danish language added
• Fixed some problems with authorization
• Fix for Image options in text editor
• Fixed missing images in text pages bug
• htaccess.txt
• Fixed copy and move files

What’s next?

Some of you were perhaps hoping for a dedicated horizontal menu and Fotomoto e-commerce integration in this release, but we had to push this forwards to Imagevue X2.7. We are already bracing ourselves for X2.7, and also looking to the future in regards to dedicated Imagevue mobile/iPhone version, Guestbook and a few new cool themes!

Imagevue X2.5 Download›X2 Gallery Demo›X2 Admin Demo›

X2.5 Highlights

This release focuses on a brand new admin, with new features, improved functionality and a new design. Main features at a glance:

• Brand new admin › Demo
• XML Cache › Speeds up the gallery
• Manual Sorting › Drag-and-drop for folders and images
• Rename the iv-includes/ (admin) folder ›
• Folder Password Protection › Demo
• Uploader Image Resizer ›
• Imagevue authorization ›
• Folder Parameters ›
• Fixed a few bugs in the gallery, and added loads of new features. See the full list below.

Important Release Notes

• Imagevue X2.5 requires PHP 5.1.3 or higher, and we no longer support PHP 4.x.
  Read more ›
• With Imagevue X2.5, you are required to authorize your gallery. Read more ›
• When logging in to the new admin, you no longer use {gallery}/imagevue/, but instead {gallery}/iv-admin/. This folder can now be renamed.
• If you are upgrading from an earlier version, please read the Upgrade Instructions ›
• Although this is now X2.5 final release, you can still post comments and feedback in the Imagevue X2.5 beta forum post ›

Imagevue X2.5 Updatelog

• Brand New admin! – Read more
• XML Cache. Makes your gallery run much faster! – Read more
• Manual drag-and-drop sorting for folders and images – Read more
• Rename the iv-includes/ (formerly imagevue/) admin folder to anything you like
• Folder Password Protection – documentation
• Added client-side resizing with SWFupload 2.5 uploader – documentation
• Added Imagevue authorization – documentation
• Folder Parameters / per-folder settings – documentation – forum
  • New Parameters field in admin, where you can set folder-specific settings
  • Also works from Flashvars for settings on a per-document basis
• Improved image loading in Textpages – No more white backgrounds before images in textpages have loaded, and now the images fade nicely in after they are loaded
• support for loaded PNG transparency – forum
• Added stylesheet for “ » “ separator in gallery thumbnails mode – forum
• Fixed support for international characters in Audioplayer “Audio” and “Volume” text. Now supports special latin characters (like üúù). Also added CSS for these two items: .audioplayer_main, so now you can change font-style also. – forum
• Fixed fullscreen toggle issues in various browsers – issue – forum
  • Changed fullscreen icon graphics (for controls/buttons)
  • New option to go fullscreen after visitors first click anywhere – forum
• Added option to reset zoom/scale state on next image event – forum
• Added mousewheel support for image zoom and toggle thumbnails  – forum
• Fixed “next image” loading problem when using the thumbnailscroller – forum
• Improved thumbnailscroller interaction if large amounts of images in a folder – forum
  • Thumbnail-size in scroller is reduced if there is a large quantity of images in a folder and/or the visitors stage width is relatively small.
  • Thumbnails hover changed so that the scaled thumb does not interfere with next and previous thumbnail buttons.
• Contact forms remember visitor name and e-mail after first input – forum
• Thumbnails-mode now goes to specific thumbnails-page# corresponding to visitors last viewed image – forum
• Updated SWFAddress.js and SWFObject.js
• Fixed and cleaned some html/css in container document
• Large Controls / Arrows
  • Removed largecontrols.align setting – forum
  • Improved UI and support for large controls in full-zoom mode
  • Selective display for Next/Previous arrow controls. If there is only a single thumbnails-page, arrow-controls do not appear. If visitor is on LAST thumbnails page, RIGHT arrow-control is deactivated. If visitor is on FIRST thumbnails page, LEFT arrow-control is deactivated. Imagemode: If there is a single image, arrow-controls do not appear – forum
• Html tags stripped out of the page <title> – forum
• Changed page <title> order for both flash- and Html gallery – forum
• Fixed issue where wrong image text may display if rollover event is used – forum
• File extensions are now stripped from automatic file titles – forum
• Created optional loop toggle setting to stop looping between last and first image – forum
• Right-click “contact” is available globally, except when right-clicking thumbs – forum
• Audioplayer rollover canvas does not appear if there are no items to display – forum
• Support for national characters in domain names

Why 2.5?

There are a few reasons why we decided to release this new version as 2.5:

• X2.5 includes a brand new admin, designed from bottom up with a lot of important new features
• X2.5 now required PHP5.1.3
• X2.5 is generally a massive release

What’s next?

We are already looking forward to release Imagevue X2.6 for Christmas. In this release, we aim to include several requested features that we were not able to include in the 2.5 release: New horizontal menu, Fotomoto E-commerce integration, Social-media sharing, multiple backgrounds, and more. Stay tuned!

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What’s New?

Basically our old website was simply outdated in terms of content and design, and not oriented towards new releases. With the new Imagevuex.com, we have cleaned up many sections, and will be focusing more on frequently updated content and user interaction. The new website is built in WordPress, and is more scalable to extensive amounts of content. There are still a few “loose ends”, but we are working to fill in the gaps!

• Improved Imagevue Overview
  We have cleaned up the Imagevue Overview page to be more concentric towards Imagevue X2, and it acts as a good introduction to Imagevue in general!
  Imagevue Overview›
• Improved Documentation
  We have added and structured the documentation pages for a better insight into Imagevue. The new platform also allows us to create improved documentation structure with tags, categories and preferably video-tutorials in the future.
  Imagevue Documentation›
• New Users Premium Features
  New Imagevue users now get exclusive access to support, Forums and posting comments in Blog/documentation through their login. Since we are excluding anonymous users from this, we have more time to support- and interact with actual Imagevue users.
• New Forums
  With the release of the new website, we also updated forum to PHPBB3 and customized the design of our forum to match the website. It is still a bit rough, but I think we have a good fundament for the growing Imagevue community. Also new is the fact that only licensed Imagevue users will be able to login to the forums. This is a premium advantage for customers, and saves our time from supporting non-authorized users. All existing forum users still keep to get their login though. We may allow registering in the forums with limitations for any user, but we haven’t decided on this yet.
  Imagevue Forums›
• New Blog
  With our new Blog, we hope to provide frequent updates to the world of Imagevue, as well as tutorials and other interesting articles. We also invite interaction by using the comments field below – You can login with your Imagevue user account details. Stay Tuned!
  Imagevue Blog›
• Twitter and Facebook
  From now on, we will be focusing on delivering more frequent updates and improved interaction with users through Twitter and Facebook.
  Imagevue Twitter›
  Imagevue Facebook›
• User Galleries
  We have a new elegant section for featured Imagevue User-Galleries. You can browse through all the featured galleries, which are also randomly featured in the website Footer and on the front-page. Please feel free to add your own gallery here! The user-galleries are managed in unison with our sibling project, photogallerylinks.com
  User Galleries›
  User Galleries Full List›
  Add Your Gallery›
• User Testimonials
  We have received much praise from many Imagevue users since we started up, so we decided it would be fun to set up a Testimonials section on our website – See what others are saying about Imagevue and view their websites. You can also add your own testimonial, and include a link to your website for more exposure!
  Imagevue User Testimonials›
  Add Testimonial›

Logo and Design Profile

As you can see, we have a whole new design profile for the website and a brand new Logo. The boxed “x” represents the x in ImagevueX, and this icon will represent Imagevue from now on =)

What’s Next for Imagevue?

Many of you have been waiting patiently for a proposed massive update to Imagevue X2, and we simply have to apologize for the long wait. We had to nail this new website first to support our plans of future development – and we have many! Having said that, we are already well underway with the new Imagevue X2.5, and progress here is first priority from now on!

The Internet is constantly evolving with new technologies, trends and standards. In the near future, we would like to deliver other front-end modules for Imagevue in addition to the X2 Flash Gallery. We also want to document the Imagevue API, so that 3rd-party developers can create unique gallery- and slideshow frontends utilizing the Imagevue core and Control-Panel for management. For now, let me just mention a few keywords:

jQueryWordPresshtmlCSSFlashmobile

Please feel free to add comments below!

Because mobile platforms often use touchscreen interfacing, have smaller screens, and some platforms (iOS) don’t support SWF, the Imageuve gallery needs to display differently on these platforms. We have a few ideas about this –

Phase Now!

Currently with the latest release of Imagevue, if you go to the gallery from an iphone, the visitor will see the html gallery adapted to fit nicely on an iphone. We have achieved this by creating an iphone.css stylesheet specifically for iphone. Check it yourself from an iphone:

Imagevue X2 Demo›

Phase 2

For next release (the big one we are currently working on), we will release an optimized CSS stylesheet for the iPad (as we have already done for the iphone). This will allow Imagevue html gallery to function neatly and user-friendly on an iPad. Of course, iPad does not support FLASH so displaying the native imagevue flash application is simply not an option(not for us, or not for any competing software).

Phase 3

After the initial fixes above, we are certainly looking forwards to make the “ultimate” iPad gallery experience. However, I am a little uncertain about peoples expectations in this arena. Lets look at the iPhone first:

The iPhone is a small device with a small screen. Additionally, its mouse-less touch-screen interface is a different experience than viewing it from standard browsers on normal computers. The ultimate gallery on the iPhone, is basically something similar the native PHOTOS application on the iPhone … There is no room for swish-swoosh and fanciness on the limited screen size and unique style of interactivity. I think the best experience a visitor can wish for, is to actually be able to browse through the gallery/pages with no clumsiness. If anyone disagrees with my opinion, I would like to hear their suggestions!

The iPad has a bigger screen than the iPhone, although it inherits the same unique style of interactivity. There is room for some “special touch” for a gallery on the iPad(unlike iphone), but it is still limited in terms of design and esthetics. In my mind, we will aim to build a gallery that is functional to navigate and smooth to use on iPad, but it may lack the personal touch and flair of the imagevue SWF gallery … I guess what Im trying to say, is that its unrealistic to expect anything revolutionary, but instead maybe aim for something that works very smooth on an iPad(perhaps something similar to the native iPad PHOTOS app?). This is the essence of the iPad in the first place.

Maybe it would have similar visual identity as the native PHOTOS application on the iPad?

There will of course be the need to add some advanced javascript/css3/html behavior. For instance maybe a scrollable menu on the left(similar to native iPad)? Maybe image information/description layer pops up when placing finger on image? Basic crossfades between images? In the end of the day, the iPad screen and interface is just better suited for something purely functional, without too many “artifacts” that interfere with the user experience. Something that can be navigated with a single finger, and that puts the content in focus.

We’d love to hear peoples opinion on this!

iPhone and iPad APP

Many users will soon be wondering if we are going to make an APP for iPhone and iPad soon. First, let’s just take this into perspective: No visitors to your gallery will want to download an application before checking your gallery. They will want to simply target your gallery through their browsers, and then preferably have an optimized experience. So therefore an Imageuve APP for the Imagevue frontend? No, it has no function.

Imagevue ADMIN APP?

Ok, now we’re talking. There may be a growing need for gallery owners to be able to manage their gallery from an iPhone or iPad. Although the new admin should work very well from iPad, the problem would be that you cant upload photos from the iPad/iPhone through a normal browser page. This would therefore be a reason to create an application, perhaps dedicated to uploading photos to your imagevue gallery from iPhone or iPad.

That was a long post! Anyway, would be happy to hear your feedback or suggestions! The reason I am a bit skeptical to some “expectation”, is because I spoke to a photographer face2face the other day – He was wondering if we could make “kickass” Imagevue for iPad … In my opinion, Apple already made the best interface for this …

Indexr is a small versatile footprint PHP script that lists images and files in any folder on your server. Simply drop the single index.php file into your directory with files or images, and it will list everything in a nice eye-pleasing manner when accessed.

You can use Indexr to quickly set up small gallery, display files for clients online, or simply to resize all images or create thumbnails in a specific folder. You can change sorting order, thumbnail size, CSS and html layout by simply editing the single index.php file. Not only does Indexr list files in folders, but it also creates thumbnails for images and shows additional file information. If you need a simple but pretty directory listing with thumbnails, try Indexr!

PS! Indexr is FREE to download, and is not related to the Imagevue Gallery.

• List all/any filetypes in a specific directory
• Resize images or create thumbnails on-the-fly for any folder
• Displays thumbnail preview for image formats
• Display full-size images with previous/next navigation
• Sort files by date, name or extension
• Filter files by extension
• Easily Customize CSS and layout

Installation

Simply copy the index.php file into your file directory, and access it from your browser. In the demo below, we simply dropped the Indexr index.php file into our /demo/indexr/ directory:

imagevuex.com/demo/indexr/›

System Requirements

• Web server with PHP4 or greater
• GD2 or ImageMagick is required for thumbnails. One of these will normally exist on your server already.

Customization

You can change some options like sorting, thumbnail-size and allowed extensions by editing the index.php file directly. By changing css and html you can give it any look you want. Simply open index.php in any text-editor.

Options

define('THUMB_PREFIX', 'tn_');
 * Sets the thumbnail prefix to be used

define('THUMB_DIMENSIONS', '120x');
 * Thumbnail dimensions in format of 'WIDTHxHEIGHT'
 * If only the width is specified (e.g. '160x'), all thumbnails will be one width but different height.
 * If only the height is specified (e.g. 'x120'), all thumbnails will be one height but different width.
 * If width and height will be empty both, thumbnail will be a copy of original image.

define('THUMB_QUALITY', '85');
 * Thumbnail JPG quality

define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd M Y');
 * Date format

define('ALLOWED_FILES', '*.png|*.jpg|*.gif|*.mp3|*.htm*|*.txt|*.zip');
 * List of masks for allowed files
 * Empty string means all files allowed.
 * You can use shell wildcards:
 *   * - zero or more characters (any);
 *   ? - exactly one character (any).
 * Divide masks with | character.

define('SORT_METHOD', 'date-');
 * Sorting method with possible values:
 *   - name+ - sort by name ascending 
 *   - name- - sort by name descending 
 *   - date+ - sort by date ascending 
 *   - date- - sort by date descending 

define('NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS', 3);
* Number of columns in directory list

CSS Styles

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; outline:0; }
body { background: black; color: #999; font: 12px/18px "Lucida Grande", Candara, Tahoma; margin: 18px 36px;}
span { color: #333;}
h1, h2, h3, h4 { font-weight: normal; line-height:110%; color: #ffa600;}
h2 { font-size: 18px;}
a { text-decoration: none; color: #ffa600; }
a:visited { color: #bb8816; }
.pagemenu a:visited { color: #ffa600;}
a:hover { color: white;}
a.span { color: #333;}
img { border: 9px solid white; }
td { vertical-align: top; }
table table td { padding: 0 18px 18px 0; }
.thumb { text-align: right; }
.thumb img { border: 4px solid #ccc;}
.thumb img:hover { border: 4px solid white;}
.thumbtext { padding: 4px 0px 0px 0px; }
.imagetext, .pagemenu { padding: 0px 0px 9px 9px; }
.indexr { margin: 18px 0px 0px 0px; }
p { margin: 0 0 9px 0; }
form { }