Create or Add Photo Gallery to Your Website for Free
The following information can be found on this page:
- Create Free Web Gallery with Web Album Generator Applications
- Create Free Web Gallery with Open Source Web Application
You can create an advanced photo album or a photo gallery on your website with web album generator applications or an open-source photo gallery system. Some of web hosting companies have free image galleries application included. This makes image galleries applications easy to use. You select a wanted application, enter a few easy questions and that it's. If you want use another application (not the one that is included in web hosting plan) you can download it from the internet. See the examples below.
Edit your photos with Picasa - free program for organizing and editing digital photos.
Requirements: You must have a website.
Advantages:
- No Ads - No Ads and no irrelevant content.
- Freedom - You can customize your galleries like you want it.
- No limits - Depends on your hosting account.
Disadvantages: Usually such web hosting won't be free of charge.
Free Web Album Generator Applications
Usually, you must install photo album generator application on your computer, create web photo album folder and upload it to your website.
- JAlbum
This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. Install Jalbum on your computer, create photo album by "drag and drop", upload web album with ftp program to your website. That's it! Very easy and very quick.
Works fine on Windows and Linux hosting.
View JAlbum example
Visit JAlbum website - ornj.net
Free software to make web albums out of your digital photographs. All you need is your digital photographs, and web album generator will take care of the dirty work - creating web album. In ornj.net web generator there is no option for directory creation, but with basic html knowledge you can create it by yourself. See differences between first and second example.
Work fine on Windows and Linux hosting.
View ornj.net regular example
View ornj.net example with folders
Visit ornj.net website
Free Open Source Photo Gallery Applications
Download photo gallery package from one of the sites, extract the package on your computer (if there is a need), upload it to your website and begin the installation. In some cases you'll need to create database before the installation. Some application in this section works with GD or ImageMagick image manipulation utilities. Some hosting companies have it already installed for you.
- Gallery Project
The Gallery Project is an open source PHP project enabling simple management and publication of photographs. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users. Gallery works fine on Windows and Linux hosting.
Web server requirements: at least PHP4.3, at least MySQL 3.x/MS SQL 2005, ImageMagick or GD. Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database.
View Gallery example
Visit Gallery website - SimpleViewer
SimpleViewer is customizable Flash image viewing application. There are two similar alternative image viewers, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer. Works fine on Windows and Linux hosting.
See our examples.
View SimpleViewer example
View PostcardViewer example
View AutoViewer example
Visit SimpleViewer website
Visit PostcardViewer website
Visit AutoViewer website - Plogger
Plogger is a free online photo album generation script with automatic thumbnail creation, easy installation and search engine friendly features. But in general it will work only on Linux hosting with MySQL.
Web server requirements: at least PHP4, MySQL v3.23 and GD.
View Plogger example
Visit Plogger website - Coppermine
Coppermine Photo Gallery is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media/data files and the use of multiple languages. The gallery can be private, accessible to registered users only, and/or open to all visitors to your site. Users, if permitted, can upload pictures with their web browser.
Web server requirements: At least PHP4, MySQL 3.23 and ImageMagick or GD.
View Coppermine example
Visit Coppermine website - 4images
4images is a powerful web based image gallery management system. Features include user registration and management, password protected administration area and search engine. But, if you have some problem with image resizing you can solve it with Picasa.
Web server requirements: at least PHP4 and MySQL v3.23.
View 4images example
Visit 4images website
Don't like any of these sites, search "photo album generator" or "open source photo gallery" in Google search.
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