What is Ultra Media Gallery?
Ultra Media Gallery (UMG) is a DotNetNuke application designed to work in DotNetNuke websites ONLY. DotNetNuke (DNN) is a free, open source framework ideal for building powerful web sites for business and personal use. This documentation assumes that you have prior experience with the DotNetNuke environment. For further information about DotNetNuke, please refer to DNN information found at www.dotnetnuke.com.
Ultra Media Gallery (UMG) is a complete, full-featured web photo/image and media gallery management solution. With UMG, you can create photo and image galleries with customizable Flash and Lightbox views. When you subscribe to Flickr and Google Picasa, you can use UMG to display Flickr and Picasa photos and images on your DotNetNuke website wrapped in UMG's high quality interface. With UMG, you can, for example, create a Headline view for news headlines, or display real estate photos in a Virtual Tour presentation. If you choose, use UMG to sell digital media products online, or simply use UMG to allow your website members to share their images with others using UMG's Personal Gallery mode. 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.
From the release of Ultra Media Gallery version 2.0 on 3rd Jan 2006, UMG has been a top seller on snowcovered everyday, with thousands of DotNetNuke websites deploying UMG in every major country around the world. Powerful features & flexible module functionality, backed by timely & professional customer support are a few reasons why many DotNetNuke users choose Ultra Media Gallery as their web image and media gallery solution.
Based on your needs, BizModules.net provides flexible and extensible module licensing options. You can purchase a single installation 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, our unlimited installation 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 picture viewer, a lightbox viewer, an image rotator, a "headline" rotator, and more. With Ultra Media Gallery, you save money because you get multiple Flash player 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 user base, UMG has the largest number of users, so potential bugs and problems are reported quickly more quickly than 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 5?
All products from bizmodules.net 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.
The most important enhancement in UMG 5 is the new presentation provider pattern. It allows 7 new presentation providers which are available as a separate purchase. A presentation provider is a specific implementation of flash player and .net component for UMG 5, in the simplest manner, you can consider it as a flash player, 7 new presentation providers are included in a separate listing - GenenicPresentationPack, you can purchase it if you need these extra presentations.
- Shadow Viewer This is the newest and most powerful presentation in Generic Presentation Pack, Shadow Viewer support multiple albums, nested albums, flv video playback, and flash movie(.swf).
- Widescreenshowroom Widescreenshowroom support multiple albums and flv video playback. it's ideal to be used as a product showroom.
- 3D Carousel Display thumbnails in a ellipse with mirror effect, move your mouse to scroll the ellipse.
- 3D Stack Similar to 3D Carousel but display pictures in a stack.
- Side Navigation Similar to the classic interface but display thumbnails vertically in left or right side.
- Random Position Display thumbnails in random position, change "feed" to adjust the randomicity.
- Right Header Display a series of text buttons in left or right side, ideal for quick links, featured contents.
- Virtual Tour Browse your pictures with a virtual tour effect, ideal for real estate showcase, landscape pictures.
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Widescreen showroom |
Virtual Tour |
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Random Position |
Side Navigation |