Posts

Not only can Alkaline can be used in conjunction with your current CMS (or proprietary code), it’s a full-featured CMS in itself. Write blog posts using your favorite markup language, assign custom URLs, set the category, publish in the future, and more. Posts even use the same super-simple theming engine as images, and can be previewed using your own templates.

Citations

When you link to outside content, Alkaline transparently retrieves metadata about your sources, which is fully indexed and searchable.

Versions

Accidentally remove a quote? Delete a paragraph? Go back in time and compare or revert to previous versions.

Works for you, and you, and you

 Photographers,  illustrators,  visual artists,
 graphic designers,  Web developers,
 photo agencies,  public relations,
 entertainment venues,  publishers,
 modeling agencies,  non-profits

Images

Upload images by dragging-and-dropping from Aperture or Lightroom. Browse your automatically-imported tags, metadata, and geodata. Customize your theme without spending hours sifting through manuals. Build sets that update themselves when new images are added. Write posts and make pages. Invite guests to see protected images. Generate color palettes, and browse tag clouds. Sound a bit intimidating with a large collection? Bulk editing makes organizing hundreds of images as easy as pointing and clicking.

Sets

Manually grouping images is great for a vacation, but what about sets for all your portraits or cartoons? Alkaline takes the labor out of organizing your library with smart sets that update themselves when certain criteria are met—like an image having a certain tag.

Visitor tracking

Why check and update another application if you don’t have to? Alkaline includes a robust statistics module that even shows up on your Dashboard.

Tags

Rapid keyboard-based tagging with auto-suggestion makes tagging child’s play.

Slideshows

Unlike in other applications, slideshows are easy to theme, and no Flash is required.

Rights Sets

Assign copyrights and permissions to individual images (or in a batch) to discourage misuse.

Simple yet powerful

Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to design your Web site. Alkaline ships with two themes: P1 and P1 Black, both using the Blueprint CSS framework. They don’t include unnecessary blocks, lists, or gradients, which means you can modify them easily to match your Web site.

Use templates, variables, and blocks (think of items in a loop) to develop themes of extraordinary complexity without writing a single line of code.

Gurus rejoice

Include PHP code, access configuration variables, and execute extension hooks directly from your theme.

And so much more

Apply filters to modify template variables, use nested loops to link data, and watch high-quality screencasts to gain even finer-grained control over your Web site’s design.

Includes geo database

Make your images location-savvy with a database of over 90,000 cities from 248 countries and territories.

Navigate with EXIF or IPTC

Alkaline automatically identifies geodata embedded in your images and uses its internal geo database to fill in any gaps in city and country name, latitude, or longitude.

Auto-suggestion

Can’t quite spell the city you want? Once you begin typing, Alkaline suggests matching cities from its database.

Comments

Add a social element to your Web site by allowing comments on images and posts. You can edit and delete comments—even be notified when new ones are submitted.

Pages

Add static pages to your Web site with the all the same powerful features as posts.

Caching

Alkaline uses its own no-configuration, no-nonsense caching system to dramatically speed up your Web site.

Enterprise-grade search

Alkaline includes built-in compatibility with Sphinx search server, so you can offer ultra-fast, relevancy-based searches to your visitors.

Ready, set, extension

Add powerful new features simply by moving folders to your Web server. Yes, it really is that easy.

Vroom, vroom

Alkaline works great on shared hosting, as well as “small” virtual private servers.

Thoroughly documented

Every class and method is documented, plus quick how-to guides are available to answer common questions.

Future-proof

Developed with PHP 5.2 plus with components from the next-generation CSS 3 and HTML 5 standards, Alkaline is ready for today and tomorrow. Runs on Apache and Windows servers out of the box with URL rewriting, and connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases. Can your CMS do that?

Object-oriented core

Web developer? Let Alkaline be the rock-solid foundation upon which you build content-based Web sites.