>Has anyone run across a simple, cheap web-page creator for photo portfolios?
>David J. Bookbinder [david_bookbinder@...]
I thought I would cross-post this one. It's only ~slightly~ OT, eh? :|
I've coded just such a thing, but the features are a little different. I
was considering opening it up to the public domain once I got the
documentation cleaned up. It is written in PHP, so you would need that is
running that on your web server (like http://www.he.net). Adding/removing
galleries, images, comments, etc. is a real snap. The script creates a
gallery for every directory it finds in the 'contents' directory, named the
same as the directory. To add an image to the gallery, simply drop the
thumbnail and full-size image into that image directory; the script will
find it and display it. No mucking with HTML every time you want to simply
add or remove an image. My next step is to add a small script that will let
you upload an image from a web page so that you don't have to use FTP (just
thought of that one!). If anyone is interested in being a "beta-tester" let
me know. It's actually in release shape now, but I would be interested in
feedback as to what the public at large would like to see in it. The end
result will be a set of scripts that allows you to create a site of
galleries with minimal set-up and be maintainable via a web-page.
Here are a couple of examples (snaps from my brother's wedding). The second
one is a small sub-set of the first that I used to test the 'caption'
feature. Colors, fade speed (for IE users), what side the thumbnails appear
on, etc., are all configurable. The large images will be a little big for
your screen if you are only on 800x600. I trust most here have boosted
their resolution, though.
http://www.photogs.net/markc/wedding/
http://www.photogs.net/markc/test/
You can link to a specific gallery or image by putting the gallery name and
image number in the link:
http://www.photogs.net/markc/wedding/index.php?gallery=040-Bachelor_Party
http://www.photogs.net/markc/wedding/index.php?gallery=050-Wedding&image=0130
The pages on the row of links above the galleries can contain just plain
text or include images and links via HTML. They are named based up their
file names in the 'content' directory. If your server has mySQL, then you
can use the guestbook also (feel free to try it out). The gallery intro
pages and the comments are inserted if the content is there and also may be
plain text or HTML. The pages and galleries are sorted by being prefixed
with those numbers you see in the links. They are stripped when they are
displayed in the navigation links.
E-mail me off-list if you are interested in trying it out and I'll whip up
an instruction sheet and some set-up/administration scripts this weekend.
Mark C.
yahoo@...