I've spent the past too-many hours working on updating, upgrading, and migrating my old photo album to the new software, and I've finally gotten it all set up and have been able to mostly familiarize myself with it. I'm kind of "out of it" at this point, but I thought I should go ahead and make a brief update, so here goes...

I thought I'd go ahead and give some more details about what I have planned, and also to try and get some input from you guys.

A fairly basic example of what we would be using can be seen at photography.somethingsquare.com. I haven't really done much to customize it other than add a few features and tweak a few basic settings. The album I would be setting up for us would allow you to register an account, which would then create an album for you. You should be able to create and manage your own nested sub-albums, as well as captions and other features. I haven't had time to play around with the user accounts features yet, so I'm not sure just how much control/access you will have, but I would like to set it up so that all of the albums pretty much look the same--something that we can discuss and come to a consensus on later--at least by default. When you log in to your account, you would be able to upload (and delete) files from your hard drive or from another website. You can also manage the titles, captions, descriptions, keywords and other options for the images as well. The software automatically creates the thumbnails and everthing, and can also automatically create other sizes of images if specified. We can enable BB style formatting for the captions/descriptions, but I am reluctant to allow full HTML as it is a potential security vulnerability. We can allow people to comment on and vote (give good/bad ratings) on images. I'm going to be checking out some of the different available themes soon, so that we can have more choices for how the gallery will look. I'm also looking into a feature that would create some easily cut-and-paste-able code for each image, making it easier to post the pictures here at the brickboard.

Here's where I need some input though: are there any specific features you can think of that you would really like to have or that would make it easier to use?

Also, what would you suggest as an easy to remember title/name for the gallery? I plan to place it at http://title.somethingsquare.com/ (and it could also be accessed from http://www.somethingsquare.com/title/)-- where "title" is whatever descriptive/appropriate title we can come up with. I was thinking http://oldbricks.somethingsquare.com, but the 544/444 is sort of a precursor to the Volvo "bricks". But where "oldbricks" was not quite accurate enough, "volvo" does not seem quite specific enough. ::shrug:: Maybe one of those would work just fine, but I'm open to suggestions.