What would be the best way to create a gallery site for a photographer who has
many (dozens) of images (9 main
categories, multiple categories within these 9 categories)? She wants a site
that looks slick and professional, but also to be able to easily modify it
herself.

She does have Dreamweaver, and we talked about doing an html based site, where
she can change and add images in Dreamweaver. However, I'm wondering if we can
make it look slick enough in html format?

We decided not to do a flash based site because it would be hard for her to
modify, and expensive to do the whole
interface in flash, since it would take too much programming time, and the
search engines wouldn't see it. (Plus, I haven't
had time to really learn flash yet.)

My questions are:

1. Are there online gallery programs (free, no monthly fees) that you like,
and that can be easily customized to look slick?

2. Do you know of any gallery type websites that look professional and
elegant, either in html or in one of the gallery
programs, that we can look at ?

3. What would you recommend for this situation? I've been stuck on this for
about a week.

Thank you in advance for any insight or suggestions!

> 1. Are there online gallery programs (free, no monthly fees) that you
> like,
> and that can be easily customized to look slick?

Free? Sheesh....

I would recommend ImageGalleryMagic - worth every DIME and not so
expensive....
http://www.projectseven.com/

> 2. Do you know of any gallery type websites that look professional and
> elegant, either in html or in one of the gallery
> programs, that we can look at ?

My brother's site - using exactly that extension -

http://www.wildimages.biz

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"zzzeeep" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> What would be the best way to create a gallery site for a photographer who
> has
> many (dozens) of images (9 main
> categories, multiple categories within these 9 categories)? She wants a
> site
> that looks slick and professional, but also to be able to easily modify it
> herself.
>
> She does have Dreamweaver, and we talked about doing an html based site,
> where
> she can change and add images in Dreamweaver. However, I'm wondering if we
> can
> make it look slick enough in html format?
>
> We decided not to do a flash based site because it would be hard for her
> to
> modify, and expensive to do the whole
> interface in flash, since it would take too much programming time, and the
> search engines wouldn't see it. (Plus, I haven't
> had time to really learn flash yet.)
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Are there online gallery programs (free, no monthly fees) that you
> like,
> and that can be easily customized to look slick?
>
> 2. Do you know of any gallery type websites that look professional and
> elegant, either in html or in one of the gallery
> programs, that we can look at ?
>
> 3. What would you recommend for this situation? I've been stuck on this
> for
> about a week.
>
> Thank you in advance for any insight or suggestions!
>
>

I think you should look at www.Jalbum.net It's free but they accept
donations.
Here's how it works. Place your edited images in a folder on your local
system. Point JAlbum to those folders and it makes the thumbnails and html
pages for you. Very simple for a non-coder to use. You can also add
watermarks, captions and other relevant info through Jalbum. If photos are
digital, JAlbum can display camera settings too.

Then you build the front end of the site in DW to look as slick as you need
it to, and use an object tag or iframe to pull the gallery index page(s)
into the DW page. She can edit her photo gallery in JAlbum and upload new
pages to server without bugging you.


--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com



"zzzeeep" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fakpmq$sqk$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> What would be the best way to create a gallery site for a photographer who
has
> many (dozens) of images (9 main
> categories, multiple categories within these 9 categories)? She wants a
site
> that looks slick and professional, but also to be able to easily modify it
> herself.
>
> She does have Dreamweaver, and we talked about doing an html based site,
where
> she can change and add images in Dreamweaver. However, I'm wondering if we
can
> make it look slick enough in html format?
>
> We decided not to do a flash based site because it would be hard for her
to
> modify, and expensive to do the whole
> interface in flash, since it would take too much programming time, and
the
> search engines wouldn't see it. (Plus, I haven't
> had time to really learn flash yet.)
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Are there online gallery programs (free, no monthly fees) that you
like,
> and that can be easily customized to look slick?
>
> 2. Do you know of any gallery type websites that look professional and
> elegant, either in html or in one of the gallery
> programs, that we can look at ?
>
> 3. What would you recommend for this situation? I've been stuck on this
for
> about a week.
>
> Thank you in advance for any insight or suggestions!
>
>