What is Ultra Media Gallery?

Ultra Media Gallery(UMG) is a DotNetNuke component, it works in DotNetNuke website ONLY, DotNetNuke is a free, open source framework ideal for creating enterprise web applications, this manual assumes prior experience with DotNetNuke application , For further information about DotNetNuke, please refer to DotNetNuke manual which can be found on DotNetNuke.com.

UMG is a complete internet picture gallery and media gallery solution, with it, you can create photo galleries with fully customizable flash player or in Lightbox view, you can subscribe to Flickr and Google Picasa and play their pictures on your website in professional-looking interface, you can create Headline view for news headlines, site navigation, and quick links, you can show real estate pictures with virtual tour effect, you can sell digital products online, you can present personal user gallery service and let your visitors to share their work.

The current version is the 5th generation of this product, from the release of version 2.0 on 3rd Jan 2006, it has been in Top Sellers list every day, over 2500 DNN websites deployed this product in every major country around the world, powerful & flexible features and timely & professional customer support are major reasons that our clients choose Ultra Media Gallery as their internet gallery solution provider, why aren't you?

According to your business, we provide extensible licensing scheme, you can purchase single installation license and additional license, or unlimited installation license for enterprise users, if you are going to purchase a gallery module for DotNetNuke, Ultra Media Gallery is definitely the best choice.

Why choose Ultra Media Gallery?

The most powerful choice: UMG is an "7-in-one" gallery solution, which offers a lot of options for various business situations, you can configure it as a normal picture viewer, a lightbox viewer, an image rotator, a "headline" rotator ... once you invest this product, you get 7 flash player interfaces which can be used in different business circumstances so it save your cost to invest other products. The file size of core dlls is 672KB, which is much larger than similar products, because "...They don't take short cuts for there convienence, but do the difficult programming for yours" (from Dwight B).

The most stable choice: It is impossible that a module have no bugs, UMG have the widest range of users, so potential bugs and problems are reported quickly among our 2000 clients, in most case a fix is available 1 or 2 days later, so you can expect UMG works well for all visitors on your website, for example, after initial release of UMG 4 some clients reported the gallery won't display on some Vista computers, we released UMG 4.0.3 to fix this problem a few days later.

The most worry-saving choice: You may encounter various problems when deploy a DotNetNuke module, however, our detailed user guide can direct you to overcome most problems you may get, our support forum is also a good library of tips and tricks, "...The other major reason I choose this product 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 5 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, UMG call the .net component to generate data and config xmls, and use the flash player inside it to browse pictures, in the simplest manner, you can consider it as a flash player, 5 new presentation providers are released together with UMG 5, they are included in a separate listing - GenenicPresentationPack, you can purchase it independently.

1. Widescreenshowroom
   This is the new and most important presentation for Generic Presentation Pack, Widescreenshowroom support multiple albums and flv video playback, video can be specified by photo link field.
2. 3D Carousel
   Display thumbnails in a ellipse with mirror effect, move your mouse to scroll the ellipse.
3. Side Navigation
   Similar to the classic interface but display thumbnails vertically in left or right side.
4. Random Position
   Display thumbnails in random position, change "feed" to adjust the randomicity.
5. Right Header
   Display a series of text buttons in left or right side, ideal for quick links, featured contents.
6. Virtual Tour
   Browse your pictures with a virtual tour effect, ideal for real estate showcase, landscape pictures.

Widescreen showroom	3D Carousel	Random Position
Virtual Tour	Side Navigation	Right Header