Picture Galleries

[Jill1022]

Can anyone offer advice on how to create easy to use and professional looking photo galleries? I'd like to create something that has a page of thumbnails and when you click on the photo it brings up the picture in a larger size. I have ways of doing it, but I'd like to know if any of you have an easier way.

Our Website (http://www.archergeeks.org)

[Kyle]

My friend burk uses www.dreamhost.com to host his site www.nutcates.com

[DarkJedi613]

I have a script that does it, your server just needs to support PHP and you have to know the rules that my script goes by, I can give it to you if you'd like though. :)

You can see an example at http://www.team358.org/photos/images_build.php

If you want to make your own (since your site uses ASP apparantly) - I can just give you the concept of how I did mine.

[JonBell]

I swear by Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com/). They have two branches, V1 and V2. 2 is in beta and requires a database backend. It also requires a pretty good server and/or Turck (http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/) mmcache (which I'm now also swearing by). Here's my Gallery2 (http://p1x.stonewallcs.com/) install, and one of my Gallery1 (http://www.team546.com/index.php?option=com_gallery&Itemid=42) installs. G1 is far easier to integrate into other pages (as I did for team546.com) and requires very little from the server (just PHP and an imagetoolkit like GD, netpbm, or imagemagik - GD is compiled into pretty much every PHP install).

[ahecht]

I'm a big fan of Express Thumbnail Creator, which you can get from http://www.neowise.com/ (http://neowise.com). The free demo is fully functional but puts their logo on the generated pages (although I liked the program so much I bought it). You can create your own templates, add things like shadows and logos to images, and customize pretty much everything. You can see a couple of example galleries I've made with it at http://zansstuff.com/FIRST/pictures.html and http://zansstuff.com/sfne41605.html.

Of course, you could always just use Microsoft FrontPage.

[DCA Fan]

I like Coppermine Photo Gallery, which I believe is http://coppermine.sourceforge.net. A breeze to set up, really functional.

Otherwise I use the "Web Album Generator" from http://www.ornj.net/

[Randy]

Hey Jill,

Check out http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24872.

You can use a Gallery auto installer (power tool) to setup gallery.

[coastertux]

Team 1640 (www.team1640.com) uses Coppermine too.

[sanddrag]

If you want to switch over to phpBB I'm sure there is a gallery hack for it.

[coastertux]

Coppermine integrates with phpBB.