About:
LiveFrame Gallery is an easily-customized photo album and slideshow application. Its interface focuses your user's attention on your photographs, not on navigation, allowing them to easily click through sequentially, select from thumbnails, or view an automated slideshow. Users can select from up to five different image sizes to view, based on their display size and network connection. All pages are template based, allowing you to easily customize the entire interface.

Author:
James Home [contact developer]

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8.52/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.liveframe.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.liveframe.org/pub/liveframe-current.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.liveframe.org/gallery/changes.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.94e	11-Sep-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] great program
by rainer - Jul 6th 2002 02:06:25

Some reasons why I like (and use) liveframe:

1. It has very spiffy viewing modes, and produces very nice pages. It uses templates for all pages, so it is easy to customize.
2. It is a single, well-written Perl script, easy to understand, to check for security problems, and to modify. I wanted to store the images on another site (where running cgi programs is not possible), and modifying liveframe for this was child's play.
3. It does not autogenerate thumbnails. I have many images, some in 'portrait', some in 'landscape' mode, some need to be rotated, and some need to be thrown away ... preprocessing them with a little script is much easier than e.g. fumbling around with some interactive gallery app.

Some drawbacks:

1. Lack of input validation (easy to fix).
2. The templates include a stylesheet, but don't make much use of it, therefore modifications must always be done in several places.
3. The navigation looks spiffy, but is actually difficult to use for computer illiterates (default images too small, resize option requires two actions - choose size and click 'resize' -, and the start page for a gallery forces users to read which options are provided - gosh!).

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[»] great program
by brendan - Aug 20th 2001 15:30:30

i've been using liveframe for a while now, and i love it.

it's the nicest looking photo album app that i've been able to find.

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