Photo Gallery

Technical Website Design/Showcase
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For the last few days I have been searching for a way to put a photo gallery on our team’s web site. Unfortunately, it appears that the style I am looking for is only available in Wordpress, which I don’t use.

I’m looking to put a gallery where when you click on a thumbnail, it spreads out over the page and zooms to full size, and I’d like the page it is on to have the same “template” as the other pages of my site. Preferably, I don’t want to leave my gallery page.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Hmm…

Are you thinking about something like This?

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hmm…

looks good to me… time to play.

thanks a lot.

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http://www.pentabyte.de/software/WebControls/

I just installed this last night, it seems easy to install with minimum coding knowledge required. uses ASP.Net

its running at http://asp.shinraikon.com/PARCXI/Photos/Photo%20Gallery.aspx

:smiley:

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Last year while I was still a senior in high school, I wrote my own Photo Gallery software (along with the rest of the CMS) for Team 228, simply because I wasn’t impressed* with any of the existing open-source photo gallery software. So the Photo Gallery software I wrote for Team 228 was coded in PHP, and uses MySQL databases for the content storage.

It only took about two days to code the front end work, and a week to do all the back-end administration coding. Then, after importing nearly 60 galleries with 3,000 photos, I rewrote several scripts to optimize the execution speed and to introduce caching to relieve load on our MySQL server.

It took a fair bit of work, but I’m very impressed with the end result. Eventually I plan on making the software for the Photo Gallery open-sourced, but that’s for another day.

  • I took a lot of inspiration from Apple’s .Mac Photo Galleries and CD-Media when I designed Team 228’s Photo Gallery software last year, combining the tagging and searchability of CD-Media with the looks, functionality, and slideshow features of the .Mac galleries.
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That’s really neat! We haven’t had the need for a real photo gallery yet since there aren’t many photos we have and I just made a script that iterates through the current directory and pull all the photos and thumbnails. It seems something like Gallery2 would be bit of an overkill for most of us though.