It's finally up and running, Leaky's brand new
Gallery.
This is the news article Melissa posted on the main news page:-
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The Leaky Gallery has been completely redesigned! Thanks to John Noe and Super Alex, one of Leaky's top programmers, it's now boasting its own snazzy design that changes with every click.
Since we unveiled this gallery in February, we have fielded your hundreds of complaints; the AJAX-based navigation, while easy on load times, is still too problematic for the back button, for direct image links, etc., for it to be ideal to the purpose of finding pictures of your favorite book/movie/actress/etc. A few months ago we started playing with ideas for fixes, but none really worked; we ultimately came back to good ol' HTML/PHP, and a tweaked Coppermine layout. It's finally up for all to enjoy, and we'll have more features and improvements unveiled in the near future as we strive to keep it your favorite Potter image resource.
So, go and enjoy the more than 45,000 pics that currently reside there, with more ease than ever.

We all think it looks absolutely fantastic and huge

for the tekkies who have been working so hard on it.
A quick run down on the features for you:-
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Home -
Album List (main menu of the the categories of images - we currently have albums for Harry Potter Actors, J K Rowling, Books, Movies, Products, Fans, The Leaky Cauldron, Harry Potter Crafts)
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Last Uploads (most recent additions to the Gallery)
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Most Viewed (self explanatory - our most popular images)
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Top Rated (each image can be voted on, between one and five stars. At the moment, Evanna Lynch is the top rated image)
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Search (we know you
really wanted this facility

. The Gallery keyworders are continuing to work very hard at giving each image keywords to enable you to search for images, without having to check through 3000 in a gallery)
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Sources (acknowledgment to those sites that allow Leaky to use their pictures)
Other really nifty little features:-
- when you click on a thumbnail to view the enlarged image, you can now go back to the main thumbnail gallery you were in, and not page one

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- slideshow - my favourite new little feature. Instead of clicking on the next button, let the Gallery do the hard work for you!! Click on slideshow and the images in a particular gallery will show one after the other.
- you can also view whatever page in a particular gallery you want, and not have to go through them in number order, so for example, if you know an image is located on page 6, you can go straight to page six without having to go through the first 5.
The Leaky Gallery currently has:-
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45,330 files in 1,045 albums and 309 categories viewed 1,932,023 times
..and there is even more exciting features to come.
On behalf of the Gallery staff, we hope you enjoy

!
Donna Hosie - Galleries Manager
Edited to fix link.