[ansel] More feature requests

[Heath S. Hendrickson]

Okay, tell me to lay off if I'm getting ahead of myself, but here are 
some more suggestions of ways to improve Ansel based on looking at other 
online image-database packages:

1) Templates for displaying the images (perhaps use the skin code from 
JAlbum as a starting point)
2) Ability to upload all photos to a single image repository and them 
assign them to galleries.  This way you could put one image in multiple 
galleries and only have to have one copy on the server.  This would also 
simplify the XP publish function by eliminating the gallery 
selection/creation part.  All the photos go into a single bucket.
3) Ability to assign categories to images.  This would be useful for 
creating dynamic galleries (say a listing of all holiday images from 
1997-2003).
4) Ability to view EXIF data on the same page as the image and not in a 
separate page (i.e., below or to the side).

A lot of these suggestions are based on two programs that I've been 
playing with lately.  One is a Java application  for creating web photo 
albums (JAlbum at http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/history.jsp) and the 
other is a PHP-based online photo gallery organizer (Exhibit Engine at 
http://photography-on-the.net/ee/)

I'd think that #3 and #4 would be the simplest to do (modify the 
DataTree to add extra fields to the table for the category data and 
modify the image viewing code to include the EXIF printing routines there).

I can try and tackle #4.

Thanks,
heath