As a way to further improve the functionality of the Gallery, I have installed a tag system. For those not familiar with this technology (made popular by the photo-sharing site Flickr.com), tags are basically clickable keywords that describe an image. Clicking on a tag will show you all photos that share that particular tag.

Tags can be added to both albums and images.

Tags can be added in bunches or one at a time. Tags cannot have spaces, so separate multiple words in a tag with underscores. Tags can be separated with a space, comma or semicolon.

There are several ways to add tags:

Enter the tags in the "New Tag(s):" box under an item (click the image to the right of the box to submit it)
When viewing an album, click "Bulk Edit Tags" to edit tags for multiple items in the album (up to 15 items will be displayed at once)
When viewing an album, select "Edit Tags" from the "Item Actions" list under a picture
When viewing an image, click "Edit Tags" in the sidebar.

To keep things from getting too cluttered, and to avoid redundancy, I've turned off the option to show clickable keywords. Keywords are still useful, but I think tags are more fun.

The fun part of tags is something called a "tag cloud", which basically shows the most popular tags, with the size (and, in this case, color) of the links based on the popularity of that tag - the more popular a tag is, the larger it will be displayed in the cloud.

You can view the tag cloud by clicking "Tag Cloud" in the sidebar from anywhere in the gallery.

Enjoy!

Yep

Another thing I forgot to mention... Unlike keywords, you don't have to own the item to tag it. Anybody can tag any item they want.

However, make sure you check to see if there are any similar tags before adding new ones (when adding tags to a specific item through the Edit Tags interface, you can click on "Popular Tags" to see a list of existing tags and add those tags to the item).

The bulk thing is actually a feature I installed a few weeks ago and forgot to mention - it lets you change titles, descriptions, etc. for multiple images at once (click "Bulk Edit" ).

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