The new gallery is completely redone. It now has subsections (yah) so we can organize work and search it. We also have a forum post attached to each. This is for "Selected Work". I can now assign mods to help me aprpove stuff because normally I do this myself and right now we have 300 images in queue.. a lot of the time i cant decide whether to add something or not. Tough to say no to great work, but we have to try to keep our gallery with the best. The new categories include wireframe models so that opens things up a lot for us to approve things i nromally didnt in the past.
In addition I am creating a "Gallery" forum. That will have multiple subforums and one of the subforums will allow users to post their stuff no approval. Then we will have the "Editor's Pick Gallery" which is replicated image and the posts from the official "gallery" section. When we approve an item to that gallery it will duplicate the link to the gallery page and reference the image from the server to that post as well. So people can access that content from either forums or the "gallery" without excluding information from either side. The image in the gallery will show the latest forum posts and promote that link over to the forum. (the news system works the same). Sounds confusing but easy once you see it in action. The first post in any of the forums will be a link to the section of where to submit.
Will