| Welcome to Meteor Galleries! | Meteor Galleries is a an animation artwork gallery web application project.
Meteor Galleries is intended for use by those who collect Japanese animation artwork -- but other collectors may also want to use it. It is designed to be as user-friendly as possible, while allowing more freedom than the traditional choices for maintaining a gallery web site.
As many of my fellow collectors may well know, maintaining one's own gallery on a regular web site can be a rather daunting task. Updates are often extremely time-consuming and tedious, as thumbnail creation and HTML page writing takes a lot of time when you're adding a lot of artwork. Meteor Galleries seeks to simplify all of that, while allowing you to remain on your own web hosting with far more control over the look of your own site.
05.08.2012: Apologies & V4 in the works
If you were at all waiting for the release of version 3.5 of Meteor Galleries, no doubt you noticed that it never did appear here. Well, there's a reason for that: I just wasn't ever 100% certain it was good enough. Yes, after spending the past year tweaking small things here and there, it finally is probably OK, but let's face it -- another year has passed, and I'm just beginning to code changes for what I hope will be version 4. Version 4 will include everything I changed in 3.5, but better & more stable. Version 3.5 was a huge departure from the original MG in structure, and as such, some stability issues came up early on, so I shelved the code for public release. I think it is finally ready to make a public apperance in this year's revisions, so stay tuned! An all-new template editor (that if I get my way with the code, will trump all previous template editors to date) is in the works and is the primary change in version 4. V4 will basically be v3.5, but with a truly working WYSIWYG template editing system that will work with existing templates and help you to create new ones.
Ongoing: For the cost of a $24 per year, you can have a gallery hosted on meteorgalleries.com and maintained by MG's developer. For details, please email MG's developer via the contact form. |