Website Photo Gallery

Technical Website Design/Showcase
1

I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for a photo gallery maker for a website.
Preferably something without a huge company/product logo on every page.

You can also send me your photo gallery links.

Thanks

2

How about this?
Cross Browser Multi-Page Photograph Gallery](http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html#Trees)

3

That’s pretty good, but I am looking for a program that will make something like 1114’s gallery ideally with a smoother transition between photos.

4

Do you just want a plug and play solution or do you want a more customized approach (at the expense of getting your hands dirty into code)? The reason I ask is that it a not dificult to write your own photo gallery using PHP and MySQL if you break the project into smaller chunks and tackle them one at a time. Back in high school I wrote an entire CMS from scratch (with the exception of PHPBB for unifed site login and the internal forums). When writing the software for the photo galley, I “borrowed” a lot of features of CD Media, Flickr, and Facebook. Here is the link to our photo gallery:

http://www.team228.org/media/pictures/

If you have an questions on how to implement a a scratch built photo gallery, send me a PM.

Or if you just want a plug-and-chug solution, check out Gallery2. I would provide a direct link normally, but I don’t have iPhone 3.0 software yet. :wink:

5

Photoshop has a built in gallery maker

www.247dabears.com/gallery

6

Here’s the link: http://gallery.menalto.com/. If you wait a few months, Gallery3 will probably be out; it should be closer to what you’re looking for.

We’ve been using the original Gallery & Gallery2 on our site for years and haven’t had any problems with it.

7

Currently our team has a plug & play solution like 228’s, but our team is in the process of revamping our gallery and we’re looking at the following:

Simpleviewer (flash based):
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Highslide JS (Javascript based):
http://highslide.com/

And I just fell over Plogger the other day which I also kind of like.
http://www.plogger.org/

8

For our website we custom-made a simple gallery script. You can see how it turned out here. It’s not too hard to get something going with just a sparse background in php and javascript. You just need a php script that looks at the photos in a certain directory, and some javascript to handle switching between photos.

9

Here is an example of one of my photo galleries.

http://asp.shinraikon.com/duelvii/photos/photo%20gallery.aspx

Its made using a ASPX plugin

10

This is a great gallery, how long did that take to make?

11

your image loader has a bug… for me (on ff3.0.10) it keeps loading the same image.

i made a gallery a while back that used the AJAX methodology, and php to feed it the dynamic data. a non-current version is here. sorry if the images take a while to load… apparently someone cleared out the resize cache :frowning: . Its a little excessive, but implements with one line of php code.

all in all its not hard to make an image gallery that looks nice, i find its mostly the administration features that get a little hairy. If you are looking to take on a php/mysql project, i think a photo gallery would hit all the bases for learning stuff.

12

The reason you kept seeing the same image was probably because the rest of the images hadn’t finished loading yet. Runs fine on ff3.0.10 on my computer. The images cache, so it should load faster the next time you try viewing the page.

13

Our website uses simpleviewer (http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/) and it pulls the pictures from a picasa site.

see here:
http://604robotics.com/Media/Pictures/

14

If you want something REALLY slick, you could do a custom PHP/MySQL/Ajax viewer like the one I am currently working on for my team: http://dotcat451.hopto.org:9898/dae/media/
Basicly, when the first request is sent, PHP looks up the year and album, and page (if avalible) and outputs that, along with a small JS file, to make a page that is about 50Kb. when you have JS enabled, it sends a request, and recieves just the new center, about 12K, and adds to the back history. if you dont have JS, then it just reloads teh entire page. It is also 2 way bookmarkable: the #2 for page 2 or Page2 or Page3#2 for initialy loading 3 with php then JS loading 2. If you want something like that, PM me and I will be happy to give you the code.

PS. this is on my test server at home, as you can see from the funky port, so it may not be up

15

Team 1323 uses Adobe LightRoom:

http://team1323.com/gallery2/09/UC%20Davis/index.html

I personally like it.

-rc

16

For our NURC website I coded our gallery in PHP looks pretty good, also it preloads the next/previous 3 pics so it loads fast

http://www.team0x27.org/index.php?page=gallery&gallery=2009_24_Hour_Build