Alkaline: Next-generation CMS and photo gallery.

Finally, a CMS for creative pros. Drag-and-drop uploading, automatic metadata retrieval, and deceptively simple theming are just the beginning. Treat your Web site to Alkaline.

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Features

General

More than just the freedom to create, organize, and showcase, Alkaline gives you an unparalleled array of features that enable you to do much more with your images.

Text file support
Raster and vector image support

Raster: GIF, JPG, and PNG
Vector: PDF and SVG

Automatic pagination
Search engine optimized with custom URLs
Time zone support
Atom XML newsfeed syndication (combined posts and images)
Search engine optimization

Descriptive META tags, custom and canonical URIs, HTML5 breadcrumbs

Recovery mode allows you to undo item deletions
Built-in Sphinx search support
No-configuration, no-lag caching
Fluid.app site-specific browser support with badges and notifications
Auto-saving
Hierarchical directory mode for storing large image libraries
In-template previewing (experimental)

Dashboard

Our next-generation administrative dashboard automates and simplifies all your tasks.

Statistic and photo overview
Point-and-click image library administration
Drag-and-drop and multiple image upload

Upload from iOS devices including iPhone and iPad when you install cliqcliq Quickpic

Bulk image editor

Add/remove tags, add to/remove from static piles, change rights set, change privacy levels, and publish now

Common search presets
Dashboard XML feed—keep track of new comments, trackbacks, and daily stats from your newsreader

Drag-and-drop uploading works in most but not all Web browsers. We recommend Apple Safari, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox.

Library

Modify your library with fine-grained control over individual images.

Optional title, description (with markup support)
Quick keyboard-based tag entry with as-you-type suggestions
Detects related images
Publish dates with publish in the future
Public, protected, or private privacy levels
Set location with as-you-type suggestions
Attach to a rights set
Color palette generation

Export your palettes to ASE, CSS, and GPL

Advanced image search

Search by title, description, tags (with boolean support), EXIF, rights set, date taken, date uploaded, location (with proximity), dominant color, view count, orientation, privacy level, publication status
Sorts results by date uploaded, date last updated, date taken, date uploaded, title, or view count

Keyboard-navigated slideshows, no Flash required

Metadata

Use metadata in advanced searches to quickly sort a large library. Also easily add the data to your themes.

Imports EXIF data
Imports IPTC keywords as tags
Imports geolocation data

Includes a database of over 90,000 cities with as-you-type suggestions
Computes latitude and longitude
Determines city based on coordinates
Allows manual and bulk entry

Posts

Posts allow you to publish your own blog.

Title, body text (with markup support)
Optional custom URL, excerpt, category
Detects related posts
Version control with comparison and reversion
Set location with as-you-type suggestions
Citations
Click-to-add images
Smart image recognition
Publish dates with publish in the future, save as draft
Works the same as images—includes full customization, comments, searching
Trackbacks
XML-RPC MetaWeblog support allows you to blog from third-party applications such as MarsEdit

Right Sets

Right sets help you manage the copyright data on your images.

Right set creation and management
Merge right sets
Find images by rights

Sets

There are two set types: static and automatic. Static sets include handpicked images. Automatic sets automatically add images that match preset criteria.

Static and automatic sets
Works with all search criteria
Quickly add and remove images from static sets using the bulk editor

Comments

Allow visitors to post comments on your images.

Optional name, email, URL plus body text (with markup support)
Email comments to administrator
Require user approval
Detect and stop spam with the free Akismet extension by Alkaline Labs
Inline comment responses

Themes

Themes determine the look-and-feel of your public-facing image library.

Easily add or remove themes
Install themes with a single click
Redesign slideshows, no programming required
Use logic, loops, and filters in your theme
Nested looping
Include arbitrary PHP code
Add theme blocks, configuration settings
Implement extension hooks

Extensions

Extensions add new or modify existing functionality of Alkaline.

Easily add or remove extensions
Install extensions with a single click
Disable misbehaving extensions
Special “Markup” and “Sent to” action hooks
Extension task management

Thumbnails

Generate new image sizes of your photo library.

Two resizing methods: scale and fill
Multiple compression levels
Watermarking support with alpha-transparency
Real-time progress indicator
Optional ImageMagick support

Statistics

Our internal analytics engine means you won’t have to buy or configure another analytics application.

Counts page views, unique visitors indefinitely
Beautiful daily, monthly, yearly bar charts
Monitors visitor durations
Lists popular pages and page types
Tracks popular and recent referrers

Guests

Guests can view some or all of your protected images.

Guest creation and management
Tracks total guest view count
Access keys prevent unauthorized access

Users

Users can access the dashboard and upload images.

User creation and management
Easy access control
Tracks image uploads
Find images by user
Per-user preferences
Email-based user notification system

Multiple users requires Alkaline Multiuser.

Technical

Viewable source code
Complies with W3C HTML, CSS, and Atom specifications

Introduces next-generation Web technologies such as HTML5 for geo-awareness

Based on popular open source projects including jQuery and Blueprint
Constructed from the ground up for content management; no PHP framework to learn
Object-oriented design enables programmers to more easily implement complex functionality
Full PHPDoc-compatible documentation of all Alkaline class methods
Customizable error pages

Requirements

Let our compatibility suite check your configuration automatically.

PHP 5.2+ with modules: GD, JSON, PDO (with database driver), SimpleXML
A MySQL 5.x or PostgreSQL 8.x database, or SQLite 3.x support
Rudimentary knowledge of HTML and previous experience transferring files via FTP