An AJAX Photo gallery for Picasa

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 02:54 AM

AgileGallery is an AJAX photo gallery that rips through the XML output from Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/) and generates the paging and thumbnails and displays the full sized photos along with any description entered in Picasa.  A demo gallery and detailed instructions are available at the project homepage (http://www.agilegallery.com).

At the present AgileGallery has been kept very simple, as it was developed to fit a need for a very simple gallery that could be inserted on any web page without the need for server side scripts to maintain databases of images, comments, etc.

From the official website: "I also did not want to reinvent the wheel by creating a lot of interfaces for resizing, cropping, uploading, and general photo management as Picasa already does an excellent job and I beleive these tasks should stay on the desktop where they can be better managed.

So if you already use and love Picasa and have a website then AgileGallery is for you. Otherwise I recommend you try out Picasa or look at some other gallery scripts that have more photo management features.

AgileGallery does not require any server-side technology to generate the gallery for photos that are stored on your website as it uses AJAX to load and parse the Picasa XML file and photo and thumbnail displays.

All the layouts are very CSS rich so it is easy to modify the look and feel."

AgileGallery Requirements:

• A website to upload the photos, thumbnails, and XML file output by Picasa
• A modern web browser