17. How to set up JoomGallery, a Photo Gallery for Joomla

One feature commonly found in websites is a photo gallery. This tutorial will show you a popular Joomla extension called JoomGallery

1) As with all extensions we'll be showing you, start by going to extensions.joomla.org. Then, navigate to the Photos & Images / Photo Gallery category and find the JoomGallery page

2) Click Download

3) Since we have Joomla 1.5, click JoomlaGallery 1.5

As you can see, there are many extensions for this component that you can choose to download at a later date

4) Click the component link

5) We'll need the installer

6) Click Download

7) Agree to the terms of the license

8) Proceed

9) Save the file to your computer

Now, it's time to install this extension in Joomla

For assistance with finding or installing extensions, watch the first two tutorials in this series

10) Once installed, click Components...

11) ...then JoomGallery

Apparently, an update was released after we downloaded the file. You'll receive update notifications here

The developer recommends you back up your site before updating JoomGallery, just in case. If you're not sure how to do this, watch the tutorials in the Setup series

You can choose here to update using a ZIP file or to auto update

12) Click Start autoupdate

13) Return to the JoomGallery menu

Configuration Manager has many options for you to customize, if you want to. Most of the defaults should be just fine

Check out Help and Information if you run into any problems

Let's add a category

14) Click Category Manager

15) Click New

16) Enter a Title

17) Type a Description, if you want

Scroll down and change the access and display settings, if you wish. Then, scroll right

In the future, you'll be able to choose a Parent Category to put a new category into an existing one

18) Click Save

You can see under Owner and Type that the Administrator created this category using the Admin CP

Now, let's upload some pictures

19) Click Picture Upload

20) Browse for a few pictures

Scroll down

21) Choose a category

22) Enter a Generic Title to apply to every image

23) Click Upload

You can save time and upload a compressed ZIP archive of images by using Batch Upload. Or, use images that have already been uploaded with FTP Upload

Alternatively, you might prefer the Java Uploader over here

Let's take a look at our two images in the Picture Manager

24) Click here

If you encounter any problems with uploads, contact support and have them check PHP's upload_max_filesize for your server. Attempting to upload files larger than the specified size will result in errors

25) Choose one of the pictures

26) Change the title or description, if you want, then scroll down