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Maybe it's not so easy to manage as other gallery extensions where you just have to put the tab in front of the target folder (for n00bs like me everything is a challenge), but it's quite simple to install and use nonetheless, and once you get it right the result is quite impressive, with animated preview captions, a catchy animated pic viewer, and other features that I still have to experiment with. Recommendable!

It’s a nice image gallery, with lots of options, and good things. However, it is a bit hard to setup on indifferent pages, since you should write codes for it. But it doesn’t mean that the codes are that complicated! If you read the instructions and templates suggested in the respective website, you get to know how to set it up and use all the different functions and features. I have used it a Joomla 1.6 website, and so far it has been alright. There are some little bugs that I mention later on…
The little bugs:
When inserting the so called “templates”, or codes, in the articles, each time you save your article or apply the changes, one html code of appears in the article after the codes you have written for the gallery. So if you save it many times, they will be inserted repeatedly like this: . This means your article will be messed up in front end.
Sometimes the quotation character (“) appears at the end of the gallery code, after saving.
Some other appearance problems in the front end happened for me when I was editing and try to see different parameters. For example some parts of my text were indented to right; and paragraph structures were affected.
Inserting the template codes into the articles will cause a huge empty space after the gallery () in the front end, as well as some pixels of unwanted margins.


Suggestion for improvement:
The PDF documentation needs to be improved with including more examples; and adding all the possible “parameters” that one can use in the gallery.
A more user-friendly system that one could set the parameters and the codes, and insert description and captions, without being forced to write the code by his/her own, would make a better extension.

p.s. This review is based on the free version (Dione Gallery Wizard Lite Edition 2.1.8) installed on a Joomla 1.6, along with JCE editor (200 RC2)
Thanks a lot for a nice extension. Looking forward to see lots of more enhancements in it!
Cheers

I've been using this on some of my sites I made in the past year and I'm pretty happy with it,easy to install and use and it's free so don't miss it if you're looking for a quick way to create galleries within your articles. Deserves 5 stars!

Its not naturally to get an answer from the support in 24h for a free plugin.
With some small changes the plugin works now perfectly for me!!!
Great Gallery!!!

Thanks

I've used other extensions trying to make things work like this one, good luck I found it!

Why do I love this extension?
-it's simple to setup
-it's easy to customize (especially image tags)
-it looks FANTASTIC
-it's free

Plus today I discovered it had a bug on Linux server. So I sent them an email: which they quickly responded to, assessed the issue, and fixed the plugin (all within 1hr !!).

Awesome.

It's a good gallery, light, not very easy to use, should have been a button in article editor to add and browse for gallery directory.
Cons : the viewer cannot adapt the pictures to the web explorer window size, large pictures do not fit.

Not so user friendly for thouse of us who are not so familiar with hard-coding and as far as I can see you also need access to the root folder to take advantage of the features.

Personal I can´t get the view box width and height in the parameters settings to work.

I have just started using this plugin, and I like it; however, sexy light box does not resize images properly and causes the image to slowly "creep" down the page.

It is very easy to set up, but I cannot get captions to appear, does anyone know what the text file should be called?

It looks like a great addon and the support is fast. However, for some reason this does not work if your menu is on the right side. In that case the menu drops _below_ the content. I tested this on 2 different sites. Unfortunately, I could not find a fix for this.

Otherwise it is a very nice gallery.

it's really practical. My client can now update 100% of his website from the front-end, without the headache using modules and messing with the back-end

This plugin is just what I was looking for, thanks Dionesoft. Its sleek, simple and elegant. If you're looking for something that creates a simple gallery, without the use of flash then this is the best choice - I can say that having tried a lot of the others first.

I do have the same issue that ragoz has but unfortunately I could not find a solution.

Installation was easy and fast, the plugin works correctly.
I had one problem: thumbnails was displayed vertical (below one after the other), not horizontal (side by side), but the support solved this problem, had to modify one tag in css file.

Thanks for this great plugin!

ragoz

This is a great gallery plug-in. The Sexy Light Box implementation is wonderful. Yes, a bit slow, but worth it. Part of my review is based on the Developer. I had a lot of conflicts with another product - jomCalendar. Problem was, I really wanted to use jomCalendar anyway, so I was left trying to get the others mods to work with it. This Dev was emailing me within 15 minutes! I am sure that can't happen to everyone, but it was great. Thanks for a great plugin and I will be looking at your other products.

Razz

Sexy Light Box: is beautiful but slow.
Fancy Box: also is slow.
Color Box: Works perfectly!

I lost some time figuring there had to be put into {dionegallerywizard parameters="viewertype: colorbox , captionusing: 0"} {gallery folder="" previewWidth="199" previewHeight="50"{/gallery}{/dionegallerywizard}.

Thanx for this plugin.