what gallery software should i use for my website.

[webejamn]

i am trying to start a website but i dont know what gallery software i should use, the guy helping me suggested i use gallery2
are there any other suggestions from you guys... thanks.

[cosworth]

I use Porta. Cheap (read free) and easy.

[milleker]

I use Coppermine for mine (see website in signature). Completely customizable without much headache and very versatile. Free but you need a webhost that supports PHP and MySQL.

[Jaime]

You can also set it up with Lightroom, it gives you a couple of options.

[DarrenL]

I used Porta for a while and really liked it, really fast and easy to use.

I moved all my images to a proper hosted service (Photoshelter) but it does cost and maybe overkill for your needs but I love it.

www.photoshelter.com

After reading your needs, Photoshelter is overkill but worth looking at in future.

Darren

[souporman]

I've used gallery1 for years on my personal site and never had any problems with it. It can be a bit tricky to customize unless you're comfortable chopping up html & php files however.

I'm just setting up a new site using gallery2, which seems better so far (for options anyways) but has the added layer of complexity by adding in a database to the mix. Not sure how easy it is to customize yet though, sorry.

[Greg_C]

Another happy Coppermine user here. Mine's pretty bog standard without any customisations except for a theme I liked and that was very easy to add. The only problems I've had is with my comments getting spammed. I did see there was a Capatcha addon, but I couldn't it working on my version.

[flippinfleck]

Another Gallery 2 (http://gallery.menalto.com/) user here. I have a family gallery online and must say that it's been very trouble free for me; some of my family members are not very computer literate and have no issues uploading / viewing pictures. The Captcha interface for comments is a blessing.

If you are installing this on a slower machine, Gallery v1 is still available and gets updated.

[CannedHeat]

Never saw this before... just found it.

This page (http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/webpublish/fwgallery.html) lists and reviews many options. /Dan


(http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/webpublish/fwgallery.html)

[Karl C]

Another happy Coppermine user here. Mine's pretty bog standard without any customisations except for a theme I liked and that was very easy to add. The only problems I've had is with my comments getting spammed. I did see there was a Capatcha addon, but I couldn't it working on my version.

Which is precisely why I disable the Comments functionality of Coppermine.

I've used Coppermine twice for my websites and it's not bad. I did try Exposure Manager, which I thought was far better, but I'm not at the level yet where my photos could sell. So, I went back to Coppermine which is free as part of GoDaddy Linux web hosting packages.

[Greg_C]

Which is precisely why I disable the Comments functionality of Coppermine.

I've used Coppermine twice for my websites and it's not bad. I did try Exposure Manager, which I thought was far better, but I'm not at the level yet where my photos could sell. So, I went back to Coppermine which is free as part of GoDaddy Linux web hosting packages.

Yeh, mine are turned off at the moment also. I downloaded the Capatcha plugin about a month ago and tried to get it going. Supposedly it's built into (core) the next major release. Till then the comments are off. I get Coppermine as part of my hositng also and the Fanstastico script to install Coppermine was super easy.

[StaticThought]

Adobe CS2 and CS3 both have basic gallery creation packages incorperated into them. I use one for my website. Very similar to the Flash gallery thing you have top buy.

[bnlearle]

I just switched to simpleviewer. I like it. Here's some galleries...

http://www.bobbyearle.com/weddings.html

http://www.bobbyearle.com/family/kids.html

http://www.bobbyearle.com/worldwide/work.html

[wildthings]

Hi,

First post here, have been lurking a while :p

For my website which is under development, I use Envision from Inscripts .. http://www.envisionv2.com

Its very customizable and the guys at Inscripts have gone out of their way to make it work the way I wanted it to.

I hope my first post here does not come across as spam .. lol

[Kyl3]

I use gallery2 in it's basic form, but it works well... www.kylesharpphoto.com
Also use it on my agency's site an it's embedded into a joomla front end www.circlework.com.au

:)

[tsk1979]

Coppermine is really good. I was on CM before moving to Smugmug.

[Karl C]

Coppermine is really good. I was on CM before moving to Smugmug.

After doing more research, I'm not so sure about CM anymore. When I first used CM, I was satisfied. However, now that I'm more interested in how my gallery is set-up with Albums, I'm not pleased. CM doesn't have Sub-Album functionality; only Categories. Maybe they are the same but I don't want all the photos of one subject (ie Architectural) in one large album. I want the ability to create Sub-Albums.

The powers-that-be at CM don't seem too interested in updating their code to have Sub-Albums (one developer is a jerk about it).

[tsk1979]

I cant understand the concept of Sub album.
Isnt it same as categories.
For example I can have a category Architechture
In Architechture I can have a subcategory Mughal
In that I can have a sub sub category "Indian"
And then I can have albums in that

Anyways you can look at gallery2 also