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+The web backend requires to have a PHP scripting engine running on
+your web server. 
+
+There are two scripts doing the scaling work. convert/imgconv is a plain
+bash script using Imagemagick to generate thumbnails and scaling images.
+You can get Imagemagick at http://www.imagemagick.org/.
+
+# UPDATES #
+
+* netpbm
+  ------
+   You can use netpbm tools instead of ImageMagick for better speed. You can
+   grab netpbm at http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/ but ususally your
+   distro ships with it already. My YDL distro has all the toos in netpbm-progs
+   package.
+
+* webgallery.pl
+  -------------
+
+   Tuomas Kuosmannen created a nautilus script that operates on selection
+   of images. It's way cooler than the bash script. Because the operation
+   can take a while, it has a nifty progressbar. The script itself is in
+   Perl, so you obviously need a functiuoning installation of Perl. For the
+   progressbar to work, you need gtk-perl bindings. You can get them at
+   ftp://ftp.gtk.org. Nautilus is a GUI file manager that rocks for photo
+   management. you can grab it at http://www.eazel.com.
+
+* webgallery-zenity.pl
+  --------------------
+
+   I hacked up Tuomas' script to use only gnome's zenity for the progress bars,
+   so there's no more gtk-perl dependency. Also this script uses Larry Ewing's
+   cool gdk-pixbuf scaler. It is an alternative to ImageMagick's convert
+   (sharing the basic commandline parameters) that discards EXIF information
+   (yet), but is 5 to 8 times as fast. You can really tell on large galleries.
+   You can find both at the convert/ directory. Instructions how to compile
+   gdk-pixbuf-convert.c are included in the file header.
+   
+
+If you wan't to have advanced EXIF information for your photos, make sure you
+use a recent ImageMagick so that convert doesn't throw away this info when
+scaling down. Also grab Metacam
+(http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/metacam.html) and configure the path
+to it in inc/config.inc.php.