Question about photo gallerys

[charliestalling]

I have been wanting to add a photo gallery to my website. What is the best method for doing this?. i do not want to use flash becuase i want to be able to upload more pictures to the gallery by uploading them to the gallery folder on my server. any ideas would be helpful!

 

[CaldwellYSR]

There are a lot of add-ons if you're using a CMS like Joomla! or Wordpress. I would suggest going this route if you want the gallery to update every time you put a new picture in the folder. Otherwise I think php would be the way to go, although I'm not positive on HOW to do it that way.

 

[NadiaCweb]

Hey Charlie,

Well, it's pretty simple to add a gallery. It's a bit tricky to code yourself, but there are plenty of ready-made, FREE scripts available to you. Here's a few I found and really like:
http://www.zenphoto.org/
http://www.minigal.dk/
http://tips.webdesign10.com/free-photo-gallery-software

You can look at more by searching php/mysql gallery script.

Hope this helps,

Nadia C.

 

[websonalized]

charliestalling,

Tell us what platform are you using for your website, and we'll be better able to indicate what extensions to use.

Bests,

 

[charliestalling]

the site is html. all i want is just a simple but nice looking gallery. would i need to change the whole site to php to achieve this?

 

[geeknexus]

You wouldn't have to change your site. You could add a php powered gallery on your hosting without issue and link to it from your html pages.

Granted, You can make html pages and name the file a php page and it would have no effect on how the page loads.

For example, you could make an sample.html file, put all your html in it, and then rename it sample.php and sample.php would then load without issue in your web browser. Try it if you want

A popular and tried solution is Gallery by Menalto http://gallery.menalto.com/

It's likely available in your hosting control panel if your provider uses cPanel under Fantastico" which is a popular option for easy quick installs for most hosting providers.

4images is another popular easy gallery, http://www.4homepages.de/

http://www.plogger.org/ is pretty lightweight.

http://phpimagegallery.com/ is a pure php that is usually easy to integrate.

I hope this helps! If you have any questions just ask away

 

[boonedeals]

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Sorry if this answer exists elsewhere. I currently embed slideshows into my site using Picasa (I know, I'm a n00b). For obvious economic reasons, I would like to convert to a slideshow software that gives me a new pageview for every photo. Which one should I use? It does not have to be free but my budget is limited. Thanks!

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[charliestalling]

hi thanks for all the help! i have installed MiniShowcase on my server but what id really like to do is add the gallery section to my website. can this done done? i want the gallery thombnails to show up on a certian div in my gallery page. im not sure if im explaining this right or not. On my gallery page i have a left and a right side both seperate div's i need the gallery thumbnails on the leftside so that all the pages look the same for the end user

Thanks for all the help once again!

 

[charliestalling]

ok to use the gallery from minishowcase you just simply put the php index file in an iframe and put that in a div on your site and boom its there .... pretty simple