creating a photo gallery site

GeX · 30 Mar 2007 at 17:46

hi all.

i'm wanting to knock up a site to display my photos and work. i currently have Gallery 2 installed (http://tackycheese.net/gallery/) and am using that. But i'm after something i can customise a bit more, and something that'll allow people to comment on my work.

I've past experience building sites, and can program in a few languages - but am really looking for something i can build from as oposed to creating something from scratch.

blade007 · 30 Mar 2007 at 19:15

you need a faster server to run gallery2. Vidahost have one suitable, I run Coolibah3 from it (in my sig).

blade007 · 30 Mar 2007 at 19:18

gallery2 can do commenting and can be customised to pretty much anything you want.

I run it on many sites

try

car gallery

or

Tiling Gallery

^^ this is much simple and perhaps took 1 hour to integrate, maximum.

also check my Coolibah3

MNuTz · 30 Mar 2007 at 20:13

i was recently reading in Web Designer about http://www.flickr.com/

They had a guide on writing your own flash prog that would allow you to upload images to flickr, then display the thumbnails on your website but the user views the photos from Flickr saving you server power and bandwidth.

I cant find the magazine but im sure you could google it!!

GeX · 30 Mar 2007 at 22:02

thanks for the tips guys.

any hint on how to customise gallery 2? ive had a look but can't find anything that makes sense. gallery is quite a vauge term to search for

Beansprout · 30 Mar 2007 at 22:05

GeX said:
thanks for the tips guys.

any hint on how to customise gallery 2? ive had a look but can't find anything that makes sense. gallery is quite a vauge term to search for

Linky

GeX · 30 Mar 2007 at 22:42

thank-you

now if i could get my new system to actually boot..

tsinc80697 · 31 Mar 2007 at 01:04

Best way I'd find would be stick your images into a database, MySQL and then use PHP to output them to a page.
Then you can style them with CSS and (x)HTML

Can have it exactly as you want that way and can even put things like javascript lightbox effects on to the pictures

Suppose its not the simplest but definitely the most customisable i think

blade007 · 31 Mar 2007 at 01:12

mate, if you can program you can customise gallery2

I customised G2 (lightly - but sufficient for purpose), and i have NO official programming skills.

Bit of logic, trial and error and you'll get it np.