Feature List


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 New in v1.1
  • 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 New in v1.1
  • Built-in Sphinx search support New in v1.1
  • No-configuration, no-lag caching New in v1.1
  • Fluid.app site-specific browser support with badges and notifications New in v1.1
  • Auto-saving New in v1.1
  • Hierarchical directory mode for storing large image libraries New in v1.1
  • In-template previewing (experimental) New in v1.1

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 New in v1.1

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 New in v1.1
  • 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 New in v1.1
  • 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 New in v1.1
  • Detects related posts New in v1.1
  • Version control with comparison and reversion New in v1.1
  • Set location with as-you-type suggestions New in v1.1
  • Citations New in v1.1
  • 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 New in v1.1
  • XML-RPC MetaWeblog support allows you to blog from third-party applications such as MarsEdit New in v1.1

Pages

Pages let you quickly add static content to your Web site such as a résumé.

  • Title, body text (with markup support)
  • Optional custom URL, excerpt, category New in v1.1
  • Version control with comparison and reversion New in v1.1
  • Citations New in v1.1
  • Click-to-add images
  • Smart image recognition

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

Tags

Tags help you and your visitors navigate your library.

  • View, filter tag cloud
  • Invisible tags
  • Rename, merge, and delete tags
  • Tag parents New in v1.1

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 New in v1.1

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 New in v1.1
  • Extension task management New in v1.1

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 New in v1.1
  • 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