What is Ultra Media Gallery?

Ultra Media Gallery is a complete, full-featured web photo/image and media gallery management solution. With UMG, you can create photo and image galleries with 10+ customizable Flash and Html views. You can subscribe to Flickr, Google Picasa, or other image sources by RSS so you can use UMG's high quality interface to warp these images. UMG also allows you to sell digital media products or prints online so you can benefit from it. UMG is a comprehensive image media management module with many configuration settings and options that offer you a wide range of presentation choices to suit your needs.

UMG has been a Snowcovered.com top seller more than 4 year, with thousands of DotNetNuke websites deploying UMG in every major country around the world. Powerful features and flexible module functionality, backed by timely and professional customer support are why many DotNetNuke users select Ultra Media Gallery as their web image and media gallery solution.

Based on your needs, Biz Modules provides flexible and extensible module licensing options. You can purchase a single use license if you intend to use UMG in a single DotNetNuke installation, then add additional licenses as needed for other installations. Or for enterprise users, an unlimited use license is available for using UMG in a multi-installation environment.

Why choose Ultra Media Gallery?

The most powerful choice: UMG is an "all-in-one" gallery solution, offering many display options for various business and personal uses. For example, you can configure UMG as a normal image viewer, a Lightbox viewer, an image rotator, a headline rotator, and more. With Ultra Media Gallery, you save money because you get multiple Flash and html viewer interfaces built into one product, when other vendors distribute modules with only one player per module. The power built into UMG is much greater than similar products, because "...they [Biz Modules] don't take short cuts for their convenience, they do the difficult programming for you." (from Dwight B.)

The most stable choice: With a large installed user base, UMG has such a large number of users that potential bugs and problems are reported more quickly than as for products with fewer active users. In many cases, bug fixes are available in a few days or less. With a wide range of UMG installations, you can expect UMG works correctly for all your site visitors, across various browser and computer platforms.

The most carefree choice: While you may encounter various questions and concerns when deploying a DotNetNuke module, UMG's detailed user guide can help you to quickly solve most issues that arise. Biz Modules support forum is also a good knowledgebase of tips and tricks. "The other major reason I choose this product [UMG] is that the developer is very active and responsive in supporting this product. This gives me confidence that any issues that arise in the future will be addressed quickly." (from Sean Lee)

What's new in version 6?

All of our products are customer-driven, our clients gave us many suggestions based on their usage experience, this ensures what we enhance is what you need, so if you get any cool ideas with this product, please do not hesitate to let us know, we expect to evolve Ultra Media Gallery together with you.

1. Fresh new design UI
   in UMG 6 the UI is almost fully rewrote in a more modern style and offers greater user experience.
2. Easy upload, easy manage
   UMG 6 offers a brand new flash uploader, you can easily select dozens of files on your hard disk and then upload them one by one automatically. UMG also allows you to quickly manage your photos in Ajax manner.
3. 4 new presentations
   UMG 6 offers 4 new presentations: TiltViewer, Highslide, MooFlow and SmoothGallery, TiltViewer is flash-based, others are fully implemented by html+javascript.
4. Geotag support
   Taking photos by iPhone or other cameras which have includes a GPS device? UMG 6 is able to read the GPS coordinates of your photos and show this point to site visitors.
5. Google maps integration
   UMG is deeply integrated with Google maps, you can see the shooting place on Google maps when view a photo, you can build a full list of shooting places on the world map. You even can manually mark the shooting place for your photos if your camera doesn’t have a GPS chip.
6. iPhone support
   iPhone doesn’t support flash. When UMG run on iPhone, UMG will automatically switch to an html presentation – SmoothGallery - if a flash presentation was choosed.
7. Integration of 3rd party javascript libraries
   The UMG-FreeContentList module is used to replace the UMG-TopPhotos module in prior versions, this module integrated numerous 3rd party javascript libraries like jQuery Cycle, Highslide, jQuery scrollable, Space gallery, actually you can use them as extra html presentations for your galleries.
8. Tag support
   Similar to Ultra Video Gallery and Ultra News Article, you can use tags to describe your photos, the tags are displayed in UMG-Rate module when view a photo, your visitors can click it to see other photos with this tag.
9. Edit, Adjust, Crop images online
   UMG 6 is integrated with Snipshot and Picnik, both are free web services that allows you to resize, crop, enhance and adjust photos online.
10. Community mode
    The new community mode allows specific user roles to create their own albums and photos, users can access their own work only while all albums and photo are displayed together.
11. Users can choose their own presentation
    when work in Personal Gallery mode, users can choose their own preferred presentation.
12. Sell image prints
    This feature in available in Professional Edition only. The new UMG-OrderPrints module allows you to sell image prints, users can select the size of the print, the frames, the colors and the shipping method when place the order.
13. Widely RSS feed support
    UMG 5 only support RSS feed published by Flickr and Google Picasa, in version 6 we support almost all media rss feeds, as long as you can find http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ in the header of your RSS source, it will likely be accepted by UMG.
14. Enhanced support for Dynamic Gallery
    UMG 5 have a Dynamic Gallery mode, which is able to build a gallery from a server folder, but there are a lot of restrictions, you can’t rate it, comment it, you can’t sell it, you can’t search it….. in version 6 there is no restrictions at all.
15. Easily resort
    When manage albums or photos you can use mouse drag and drop to adjust the sort order easily.
16. Get user avatars from profile modules .
    Similar to Ultra Video Gallery and Ultra News Article, UMG can retrieve user avatars from 4 common profile modules and display it in UMG-Response module.
17. AddThis support
    You will find a Share link in the bottom of UMG-Rate module, which allows you to easily share a UMG gallery by email or more than 200 popular websites such as facebook, digg, twitter, myspace…