Several recent clients needed a photo gallery for Joomla. Their requirements, as usual, were that it be easy to use. One would assume that a Joomla photo gallery would be easy to use, but my experience with Joomla photo galleries tells me that is not the case. They are often difficult to install and confusing for the client to use.

Lucky for me, I found RSGallery2, a free Photo Gallery component for Joomla. The price is right, but does it have the features you would expect in a photo gallery?

The following is a list of RSGallery2 features:

• VERY easy to install
• VERY easy to use
• Can bulk upload of a zip file of images (this feature is AWESOME and saves a great deal of time)
• Very easy to manage image galleries
• Easy to configure
• Automatic thumbnail creation and sizing (configurable)
• Automatic image resizing (configurable)
• User comments and voting
• Front-end users can create their own galleries and upload their own images (configurable)
• Automatic image branding and watermarking (configurable)
• Image search
• Image download link
• Ability to display random images
• Ability to display latest images
• And the list goes on

Most important, though, for ME and for my clients, is that RSGaller2 is easy to install, configure, and use. In addition, the default gallery display looks very nice.

I give this Joomla Photo Gallery Component 5 stars.

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New Joomla update for Monarch Little League with latest Joomla software, new, easy-to-use site navigation, and a new look and feel. In addition, we added RSGallery2 photo gallery plugin so administrators and quickly and easily add and update photo galleries. In addition, we installed JCE Joomla Editor plugin so administrators and quickly and easlily paste scores and standings from MS Excel directly into Joomla articles without an formatting.

Many of our website clients want the ability to easily add, edit, update, and delete text, images, and pages on their website. A Content Management System (CMS) provides a way for these clients to easily achieve these goals.

A website content management system (CMS) is a computer system used to manage and control a large or small, dynamic collection of web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates document control, auditing, editing, and management. The beauty of a CMS is that it does not require the CMS user to be an HTML expert. Furthermore, it allows the CMS user to easily update web pages using a simple web browser interface.

Joomla is a free, OpenSource CMS will hundreds of free and commercial plugins that extends it’s already abundant features.

• For more information, see our article on Content Management Systems.
• Also, see the Joomla website.