Piwigo is an open source photo gallery system built with PHP & MySQL.

It is more a photo portal software as new users can register to the system & according to their permission levels, they can add more photos, comment & more.

Piwigo is very flexible in means of adding photos to the system. They can be added via pLoader (the remote client of Piwigo), mass uploading by FTP or the application can call them from any other servers transparently.

With the unlimited category-levels support, images can be organized easily. And, with the ability of tagging them, it just gets better.

A great feature is chronology. Piwigo reads EXIF data, understands when an image is taken & shows them in a chronologic order.

The application has also multilanguage support, can produce pretty URLs & an API makes integrations with any 3rd party applications possible.

GalleryView is a jQuery plugin for creating any type of content galleries including images or HTML.

It offers a wide list of configuration options from widths/heights to colors used.

The plugin simply converts an unordered list into a gallery. You can enable/disable captions which are produced from the alt tags.

By updating few images, new themes can be created easily. For several different demos, click here, here & here.

A factor which cannot be overlooked when designing websites, brochures or e-magazines is the all important font type.

Designers need to carefully select the font that best fits the style of the publication, is legible and perhaps a little different from the norm.

There are plenty of retro and urban fonts available for download, however many are very expensive. For those on a limited budget, here are some amazing free urban and retro fonts.

Victor Moscoso

This funky retro font is based on the 1960’s psychedelic poster lettering of Victor Moscoso. It is hard not to think of Cadillac’s and American diners when looking at this font. Compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, it is free for personal use and contains a full set of characters and numbers.

Watson

Watson is a retro font that still has the wow factor but is also simple and elegant. The lettering is skinny and some of the characters appear three dimensional. Best of all it’s completely free to use, compatible with Windows and Mac computers and contains a full set of characters and numbers.

Thuphap

Categorised as a brush font, Thuphap looks like freehand writing. The ink weight varies on the curves of the letters, as it would naturally do if you were writing on a piece of paper. It is completely free to use, compatible with Windows and Mac Computers and contains a full set of characters and numbers, including several special letters.

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GMFoto is an open source photo gallery script, built with PHP & does not require a database.

With the template & multi-user support, the script offers a wide-usage from a single installation.

Images can be added by uploading via FTP or with KFM. They will be compressed and resized automatically.

GMFoto provides an unlimited category logic which can be created when uploading images as every folder is a category.

Images are displayed in a Lightbox and can be browsed easily with prev-next buttons.

Although the script is in early beta, it is a very promising one.

Pikachoose is a jQuery image gallery plugin for presenting images smoothly & easily.

It displays the thumbnails of the images (which can be set to be staticly resized from the original image or created manually) & enables users to browse the gallery by clicking on the images, via pre-next buttons or with the auto-play feature.

The plugin can display the image captions & any type of HTML can be used in the captions (like links).

Pikachoose is very easy to setup, an unordered list with id="pikachoose" will turn into an image gallery. Any other options are defined in a single-line function.

XML Photo Album is a free Flash gallery application with multi-gallery support.

It can display images, audios (mp3), videos (flv) & switching between galleries or thumbnails is possible by hovering the app.

The gallery is managed by editing a XML file & that’s all it requires for configuration.

XML Photo Album comes with the .fla source which makes it possible to customize & improve further.

Imagin is a feature-rich & free Flash gallery which can be customized easily.

It supports multiple galleries with sub- galleries, can display jpg, png, gif, swf, flv, mp4 files & can present them as a slideshow.

This gallery application uses PHP at the backstage for loading images & automatic thumbnail generation.

Galleries & sub-galleries are folders and files are loaded via FTP. Imagin does the rest for scanning the related folders & shoing them accordingly.

Some features of Imagin

• Few images are loaded in advance for faster navigation
• Images can have a small description
• Full screen mode
• Basic html view of images
• Full browser resizable interface
• Right click menu. Link to an image or a gallery can be sent directly
• Keyboard navigation (space, arrows, enter, escape)
• Images scales down automaticaly to fit the browser size, or not if you don’t want

To see its power, check the demos.

S5 Reloaded is an extended version of S5, the popular standards based slideshow system by Eric Meyer.

System has very nice features like:

• auto-scaling of images/objects (whatever the size they originally are)
• auto-play
• sound & chart support
• soft transitions between slides
• a powerful control panel

This slideshow application has theming support to better customize it (examples can be found here).

P.S. For max. compatibility with the browsers, there is a special version: S5 1.29 a.k.a, which lacks of sound & charts.

dfGallery 2.0, the new version of the popular free Flash image gallery, is totally updated & offers a beautiful experience.

The gallery application has lots of features but still easy to use & have a slick look.

The gallery has integration support with Flickr & Picasa. It can get all Flickr albums under a user with the API key or any Picasa albums via the URL of the album.

dfGallery 2 can display multiple albums that can be switched via the interface. Images can be manually browsed or as a slideshow.

You have the full control over the gallery with an Ajaxed admin panel that supports multiple uploads & built on CodeIgniter.

Other features

• Theming support (change the layout and the presentation of the gallery)
• Skinning support
  
• Customizable background music
• Fullscreen feature

Click here for a demo of the gallery.

Yesterday, a jQuery slider plugin was published at WRD. And here is another nice one.

Accessible News Slider is a lighyweight jQuery plugin (2kb packed) for presenting contents in a slider.

The CSS, XHTML and JavaScript are developed specifically to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

• Users with color vision deficiency, or color blindness
  Color is not the primary indicator & back-next navigation is either visible or hidden. There is also an indicator that communicates the total number of news items.
• Users with limited or poor vision, but who do not use a screen reader
  Slider is compatible with resized fonts.
• Users that are legally blind, and who browse Web pages with a screen reader
  The appropriate skip links and title tags have been included for navigation and messaging.
• And more details are mentioned on the plugin’s homepage.

The plugin is compatible with all major browsers and free for both personal & commercial use.