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I try a lot of other gallery components before. Some are to oversized, others are to small or still buggy. With Ignite Gallery I'm getting happy now. Easy to install and configure, good features for customize the gallery-style in the frontend. Thanks for it!

I had a bit of a problem installing the extension. I contacted Matt three times and was helped within 24 hours. Recommended.

I've been looking to replace Gallery2+Bridge to use a native gallery manager. I bought Ignite after reading reviews and becoming very frustrated with alternatives. What Ignite does, it does well. It seems very stable and promises to have a great future.

What it does is: display images with a JS navigator beneath. It doesn't really do anything else but if this meets your needs then I highly recommend this extension.

Here are some things it doesn't do: it is fairly difficult to manage large images. I've given up and now use it to display albums of small images. You must edit titles one by one. Yuck if you have lots of images. Also, you must re-order with Joomla's administrator back-end. There is no JS drag-and-drop re-ordering here, so you really have to work hard to upload images in approximately the order you want them to appear in your album. Most important for me, there is no support for ACL. If you allow public access to your menu page, then all albums and all photos are available for public display. I have asked and there is no plan to support ACL at all, let alone on a per-image basis.

At this moment, I plan to keep Ignite and install a 2nd album manager to handle albums with large images for members only. I wish that Ignite solved the full problem but not yet.

Set up was a breeze and the galleries are easy to manage. I like that you can upload a .zip file with multiple images. Although, there is a bug with Firefox that changes the .zip upload to "force-download". I use another browser and all is well. Thanks for all your work. Well worth the $10. I would suggest for future enhancement, that parameters for the plugin be developed so we don't have to mess with the css file. I love the ability to embed this into articles using the plugin. Thanks again.

This extension is easy to use, being, as it is, mostly pretty straightforward in what goes where and what does what.

There are a couple of places where additional functionalty could be implemented. For example, being able to include more than 1 gallery in a single article and, having the ability to propagate the same snippet of picture description across multiple pictures at a single go. But, I'm sure that the author is aware of the areas that would make this extension even better than it already is.

However, what really impressed me was that I had a problem with a program error and the author got back to me promptly with the solution. This shows where the small outfit can really beat the billion dollar multinationals hands down.

This was so easy to install & add pictures to. I got my gallery up & running within minutes & it looks great!

Awesome tool, would recommend to any who is looking for a great looking, easy to use gallery ;)

Installation was a breeze, but I couldn't actually upload the images themselves. I went to the developer's forum and saw that someone else had the same problem with the same error messages having to do with not finding the right directory for uploads. The only solutions offered required the user to make changes to the code (which apparently didn't work either). Sorry, if this doesn't work out of the box, what's the point? If I have to monkey with code, I should just build my own Flash presentation.

Hey,

Firstly i would like to say that your work on this component is amazing. Simply to use, nice and quick.

But i have just 1 suggestion. In my case i will not use this component because of this problem for me. I think it would be great if you add the possibility to choose more than 1 photo to upload. I know it would be hard because there is a description for every photo, but we would be able to write this one after uploading a lot of photo.

Really nice work by the way

This is a professional, good looking and easy to install extension. Upload and you have it in your plugins-components ready to go. It works exactly like adding and composing Articles, management therefore is quite intuitive.
I can see this gallery will improve many joomla websites quick and easy. Looks like Bulk upload will work in the future, not sure if upload directly from site pictures is possible just yet.

It was super easy to install with the nice easy tutorial on the site, and does just exactly what I want it to do in a gallery. Resizes the images for you, taking the border with it, simple thumbnails and arrows to navigate. Lovely. Thanks for this one! Will donate as soon as I get paid!

The Ignite Gallery extension was simple to install and easy to use. I followed the instructions and had ZERO problems with the install. This extension works (for me anyway) exactly as described.

By the way... it took me about as long to register here so I could post this review as it took for me to load and test the extension.

About support...

After I installed I found one glitch where if I used the plugin on the front page and had a main menu pick to my set of galleries (a total of 4) I would get a funky fatal error when clicking on the menu.

I checked the support forums for Ignite and didn't see this error so I posted my problem. In less than 4 hours I had a response from Matt. His response was clear and direct. I knew exactly what to do. I followed his instructions and the problem is resolved.

I don't recall ever getting that kind of support response anywhere.

I can highly recommend this extension for anyone needing a quick, easy, functional, good looking gallery.

I have searched high a low for gallery extension that looks great and is easy to fit into my site. This extension ticks all the boxes and I couldn't as for more!

You can change the colours of the background, border and nav buttons to make sure it integrates perfectly into your site.

I've played around with lots of more sophisticated gallery extensions, most of which rely on mootools. Depending on the template your using and the browser you view the gallery through, many of these fall short when it comes to stability. This is not the case with Ignite Gallery! It is as stable as you could possibly wish for, and the description adding function allows you to further customise your picture display.

I am also really impressed with the fact that you can create multiple galleries and then use the very simple plugin function to place your chosen gallery into any section, category or article.

If you're looking for style and function without compromise, then Ignite Gallery is the gallery component for you!

This program is perfect for my needs. It displays the images/albums exactly how I was wanting them to be.

Request: Would be good if the ablums/pictures could be managed from the front end. So that users can edit/upload/remove pictures and albums while having a registered status. Sorta like expose does with its manager application.

Other than that... Excellent product.

Ignite Gallery is a GREAT component and was exactly what I was looking for. From easy installation to easy configuration, this gallery is just plain simplistic to use, expecially for the novice Joomla user. I was able to install and create several galleries in just a few minutes. Also, one of the perks is the well-written and very helpful documentation that comes along with it. This was a GREAT find - - thanks again!

Great if you are using a template with only one or two columns. Wouldn't fit in mine and you can't re-size the gallery in the current version.

Easy to install and use otherwise! : )

Simple upload, easy to use and worked exactly per the instructions. I didn't need a lot of fancy bells and whistles so this gallery was just perfect.

Thanks!!!

Very easy to use, simple and beautiful presentation of photos and artwork.

The only downside is that photos need to be uploaded one at a time in the current version, but the author is working on fixing that. There is also a limit of 30 photos per gallery in this version, also being upgraded in future versions.

Otherwise its a fantastic gallery component, highly recommended.

I am new to Joomla (and to web design), and found this Ignite Galleries incredibly simple to install. I managed to have a professional looking gallery up and running on my site within minutes!!.

Very well documented with easy to follow instructions.

Very good work, well done :-)

I've had this component and plugin installed for a day now and so far so good.

Had no problems with installation of creating my photo galleries. Changing the background/border colors was extremely easy.

One thing I did notice is that the gallery link is not clickable after creating it. You will need to put a check into the box in order to edit the created gallery.

Love the plugin availability.

The single page of documentation on the developer's site was all I needed to get the photo gallery up and running. This is an excellent tool.