photo websites

[bacchus180]

simple question... which software is easy to use and can produce a decent website, for photographic purposes.. someones just given me Flash.. I haven't opened the box yet.. is this just for vids or will I be able to produce a simple effective website with it??.. as you can guess.. I'm not the best with multi-media. I had a website built.. in html but I think it sucks so I want to build my own.. any help or offers..

cheers all

[Ex-biker]

I downloaded this: http://jalbum.net/ at the weekend.

Don't know if this is what you want.

I've not had chance to use it yet.

I have notice a few people on here seem to use it too.

[gravymaster]

Id stick with html. Its much easier to learn and can produce great results. Flash is more complex to use, learn and update.

Matt

[trooperiziz]

Ex-biker said:

I downloaded this: http://jalbum.net/ at the weekend. Don't know if this is what you want. I've not had chance to use it yet. I have notice a few people on here seem to use it too.

That's exactly what I used this weekend to produce this

www.nfletcher.plus.com/bedford05022005

It took about an hour from downloading the program, learing how to use it and uploading the files, to getting it to that stage.
This was on a Mac though

[size13]

Or if you have a PHP host, try Gallery

http://gallery.sourceforge.net/

like www.sailpics.co.uk/gallery/1063103

[Prof Higgins]

Flash can be put to very good effect but creating a decent website with it would require lots of learning to be done first as its a pretty complex bit of kit.

JAlbum looks great and makes albums very easily. Have been playing around with it a bit as well but yet to go live with anything - make sure you have a good look through the skin repository as loads of other template options available to add to the standard set that you get:

http://jrepository.engblom.org/

Interestingy the top download here is called BananAlbum and is a actually a Flash based Skin, so you get a great looking Flash based albums without any effort of learning Flash.

[rico]

size13 said:

Or if you have a PHP host, try Gallery http://gallery.sourceforge.net/

Gallery is a great bit of kit. I give it as a free option on my web hosting packages. Easy to use and looks pretty good. Email me if anyone is interested

[size13]

rico said:

size13 said: Or if you have a PHP host, try Gallery <a href="http://gallery.sourceforge.net/">http://gallery.sourceforge.net/</a> Gallery is a great bit of kit. I give it as a free option on my web hosting packages. Easy to use and looks pretty good. Email me if anyone is interested

And if you stick to < v2, it doesn't need a mysql database either.

[Ian_H]

I'm running Gallery v1.4.4-pl5 for www.ianhardy.net (http://gallery.sourceforge.net/) and can highly recommend it, now got over 13,000 images in my main gallery, once it is set up it is dead easy to update and maintain and they have a very helpful user community at their website if you ever do have a problem.



Cheers
Ian

[GetCarter]

This is a free download (small fee if you keep it for 30 days I think)... It's pi55 easy.

Their blurb "Use Arles Image Web Page Creator to create online image galleries in seconds. Arles automatically generates high quality thumbnails, modifies images and generates HTML pages. It comes with the fully integrated Image Explorer to manage your images."

link: www.digitaldutch.com/arles/