Gag - a simple web GAllery Generator

This is a really painless web gallery maker. Fill in the required infos, like the directory containing the pictures you want to publish, your ftp server, etc. (and save these to a file if you're lazy enough and don't want to retype these).
Click the "OK" button, et voilà, you've got a mail telling you to check-out this cool new web gallery.

No need for php or any SQL database.
Plain simple HTML gallery (W3C valid, as a bonus).

Granted, the generated gallery is rather crude, with no comments nor stats, but it's enough for me (for the moment though :o).

By the way, you may check a sample Gallery with some nice Wikipedia pictures right there.

Check the help page for further details:

For the anectdote, the first working version (v0.1) was coded in less than 6 hours. <Ms. praising> .Net is really a productive platform! </Ms. praising>

Features:

Resize picture to web size (1024 x 768) Images will be shrinked on display on small screens though.
Rotate pictures according to EXIF infos if present (most up-to-date camera fill this)
Generate a W3C compliant webPage with tiny (320 x 340) pictures (zoom to the web-sized picture with a click)
Upload the webpage to your website
Convert any .mov or .mpg video file into Theora video format, so as to get native support from bleeding edge browsers (Firefox 3.1 for example)
Send a mail to the list of people you want telling about the URL of the gallery
Optional javascript Lightbox effect to display pictures
Optional zip with genuine pictures

Installation:

Make sure you have .NET 4.5 installed
Unzip the archive and launch the executable

This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Program (win32 .exe)

Sources on GitHub.com

Included locales: en-US

Roadmap:

Preserve EXIF infos when resizing pictures
Give my GUI a less cluttered look, with some tabs
Introduce the images size settings in the GUI
Embed also videos with a small flash player v1.1 no flash though, native html5 <video> support
Implement decent progress bar with real FTP status v1RC1
Offer the ability to create the gallery in another place than '\' v1RC1 Hack it through the ftproot variable within the xml file. So as to put your galery in /pictures/, set ftproot to "pictures/"
Use a nice and optional JavaScript popup to zoom on the pictures v0.6
Add the date of the (originals) picture in the tooltip. v0.5
Let the user choose the size of the web picture and of the tiny ones v0.4 You can hack this by editing the xml configuration file. No GUI yet.
Give more control on the generated webpage (link to a custom CSS, accept a custom header, accept an html template...) v0.4
Offer the possibility to upload some .htaccess files along with the pictures v0.3
Give a bigger textbox so as to type a real notification mail (you can hack it right in the Gag xml config file right now though) v0.2

History:

October 05, 2014 - Version 1.3 - Proper video support.
September 08, 2014 - Now on GitHub.
February 22, 2009 - Version 1.1 - Really threaded version, which prevents the GUI from flickering. Support of .mov or .mpg videos. Fixed some bugs.
February 23, 2008 - Version 1 Release Candidate 2 - Fixed a bug in the html code that broke the page with IE. Pics are now sorted by date and not by name (usefull whenever you mix pics from diferent cameras).
September 20, 2007 - Version 1 Release Candidate 1 - Yeah! Done with it, as it please me enough. Added FTP progress bar.
September 17, 2007 - Version 0.7 - Enhanced Lightbox effects (size magically adjusted to the screen resolution, soo cool!
September 9, 2007 - Version 0.6 - Lightbox effects - Zip with genuine pictures
May 7, 2007 - Version 0.5 - Exif date of the picture (or date of the file if missing) is now displayed as tooltip of the pictures in the gallery. Made help pages.
May 1, 2007 - Version 0.4 - User can now point on a custom gallery template, provided a <span class="pics"> is present within. Gallery pages are now W3C compliant.
April 24, 2007 - Version 0.3 - Added the .htaccess/.htpassword (Apache webservers) protection option through the 'Protect' Button.
April 21, 2007 - Version 0.2 - Localized in french for my ol' dad - web page encoded in UTF8 - better GUI - FTP password is now encrypted in the init file (encryption is barely enough for your little sis' though ;o)
April 17, 2007 - Version 0.1

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