One of the things I enjoy most is building Web photo albums. It's fun to know that the many photos I take can be put up in a format that my family and friends can enjoy. Dreamweaver makes this really easy with a Photo Album wizard, as does FrontPage. If you don't use an editor with a wizard you can use a free photo gallery template to create your own manually.
- Create a Web Photo Album in Dreamweaver
- Create a Photo Gallery with Microsoft FrontPage
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Thank you for this, this is great! I am a Graphic Designer with little experience building websites, but want to learn. I’ve been practicing by creating a wedding site I created for my Fiance and myself. I’m currently using a free photo gallery site, but I’m going to go ahead and build my own using the Dreamweaver tutorial you posted. Thanks!
I’ve tried the Frontpage version and it was OK. I then did my own using div and UL/LI and that felt better but then I had to creat all the thumbnails… A better option is to use a free web tool called Coppermine. It offers a lot with with automatic upload, thumbnail creations, user login, e-card, etc. It can be customized to blend into an existing website.
If you’re building an online photo gallery, there are plenty of free, customizable options out there… If you have a *nix based web server, try Gallery 2 which is a great piece of software.
I’ve spent many many hours in the past installing and configuring various open source galleries and even my own PHP MySql gallery. I tried Gallery2 and Coppermine but the one that I finally settled on is the one you can get for free at http://www.zenphoto.org.
It’s very easy to setup and works great. It’s built with webstandards in mind so if you know a little CSS you can customize it easily. The backend s AJAX driven so you can drag and drop images to reorder them and it has a nice tool to let you upload your images. I could go on and on. I like it because it does what you want without all of the overly complex bloat that I found unnecessary with Gallery 2 etc.
You can see it in action here:http://www.marathonequipment.com/gallery/
or here:http://www.nexgenbalers.com/gallery/