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By following this tutorial you will use MX Kollection 3 to build a basic Image Gallery web application. The final application will allow users to:
View a list of all uploaded images.
Upload new images.
Delete images from the server.
View and browse all images.
View a random image each time the gallery is reloaded in the browser.
View thumbnails of the latest images.
Organize images into albums.
Change the basic design of the image gallery using Cascading Style Sheets.
This tutorial contains three main sections
Building the administrative section where you will manage all images.
Displaying images in the site front-end and creating the actual gallery.
Improving the basic application and grouping images into albums.
If you have the MX Kollection 3 bundle installed, then you have all the needed tools. Otherwise, the following separate products should be installed on your computer in order to complete the Image Gallery tutorial:
MX File Upload
MX Looper
MX Includes
MX Form Validation (optional)
MX User Login (optional)
The estimated completion time for this tutorial is about 40 - 60 minutes. It depends on your authoring knowledge with Macromedia Dreamweaver and MX Kollection 3.
It's recommended that you follow this tutorial in the intended order to avoid potential problems.