Newbie Tutorial Demo

[kmigs]

I have been reading and searching for yours trying to understand Coppermine.   Is there a tutorial demo that show exactly what I can do with coppermine (other than the live demo).   I'm not sure this application has what I needed and am getting no where but frustrated.     I am trying to start a website where guests could post pictures and other guests could comment and score them.   

[Fabricio Ferrero]

What better than a live demo?  :-\

I am trying to start a website where guests could post pictures and other guests could comment and score them.   

Yes, it's ment for that kind of actions.

If you like to read, go to: http://coppermine-gallery.net/. In the right side you could see a list named "Current features". That's what coppermine (among other things) is capable to do.

What else do you need to know if it is possible or not?

[kmigs]

Thanks for your response.     I guess I'm a little slow with figuring things out.     I thought if there was a video or some sort of tutorial to show you what it can do by showing you "how" to do it.    It's hard on the live demo to do anything when your not sure how to.   Hope that makes sense.   Is there any demo like that.

[Joachim Müller]

The online demo (link at the top of this page, labelled just "demo", not to be confused with the Live Demo) currently is set up not to allow comments or ratings because of the possible abuse and the sheer number of hits the demo gets. We get a large number of hits, so we wouldn't want to slow down our webspace with users being able to actually interact that much with the online demo. So, rest assured: although you can't test this on the online demo, you can allow/disallow your visitors to post comments or rate uploaded files on your gallery.
If you're not sure if you should use coppermine, there is another possibility to test it before actually setting it up on your webspace: use the Live Demo, which is actually a package that you can download and run on your Windows-driven PC without having to upload anything to your webspace. In a nutshell, it is a webserver with coppermine pre-installed. You can test all features of coppermine (except sending emails) using that package: log in as admin, play around with the settings that are available, log out, test all features while not being logged in, log in as non-admin test user and test the features as well. In fact, you can play around with coppermine on your local PC. After testing thoroughly, if you decide that coppermine is the right piece of software for you, just delete the Live demo on your local PC and get the "real" coppermine package and upload that to your webspace. This being said, keep in mind that the Live Demo goes unsupported: it is being supplied as a courtesy to users.
If you have more detailed questions on the capabilities of coppermine, please read the docs (link available at the top of this screen as well).
Now, let's go on to the Live Demo: download the Live demo from our downloads section.

[kmigs]

Thank you for clarifying the differences between the two demos.   I had no idea.