Comments on: Digital Photo Web Gallery Software?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 11 May 2005 20:40:15 +0000

For those of you that are undecided between Flickr and Smugmug I've done a brief review of them here. (There are also other links to sites with comparisons at the bottom).

Smugmug vs. Flickr

Scott

By: My Day So Far | NSLog();

My Day So Far | NSLog(); — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:18:34 +0000

Went to the driver's license center for the third time this week. Monday was "pictures only" day. Tuesday I found out that there was a problem with my FL license. Today I was told that, despite the fact that I...

By: arion

arion — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:31:42 +0000

I'm a big fan of Apache::Gallery. Yeah, its a mod_perl thing, but it is simple and just works. It's like directory-indexing but for photos. Create a nice directory structure of photos and then just set your default handler inside Apache to the module and it takes care of the rest. No complex configuration, no database backend, no extra crap to deal with.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:36:27 +0000

Perhaps also throw a look at http://www.imagevuex.com. Yet another photo web publishing service is http://www.pixentral.com!

By: paul

paul — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:45:52 +0000

i haven't used it, but you can also try coppermine. i've used gallery, it's not bad. has a zillion options.

By: Brahm

Brahm — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:37:32 +0000

I, too, use the BetterHTMLExport plug-in for iPhoto. I don't care for the look of most of the Gallery albums I've seen, though that's probably due to my own tastes and the fact that most people don't bother to customize the look much. I've found that BetterHTMLExport offers the flexibility I was looking for in developing my own album look & feel. Other solutions I've considered or played with: If you just want to post a single photo from iPhoto to a blog entry, Photon allows you to do so. If you're okay with Flash, Todd Dominey's SlideShowPro looks REALLY slick. The albums look great, they're quite customizable, you can have it display images from an RSS feed or Flickr and even attach an mp3 audio stream to the slide show.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:00:29 +0000

If you are looking for an inexpensive blogging software and know how to use Terminal.app see nanoblogger.sf.net!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:36:43 +0000

Just let add yet another (free) app that seems quite worth a look: Galerie by http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm

By: Bill Lloyd

Bill Lloyd — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:41:15 +0000

I use smugmug (www.smugmug.com) for photo hosting... they have a little Mac App which can take an iPhoto library and automatically publish it.

I like them because they have unlimited storage for $30 to $100 a year -- it just depends on bandwidth (1 GB to 8 GB a month, depending on account). It's extremely fast, and over the past 14 months I can't say anything but good things about it. Not free, but tons of storage (I'm using about 3 GB, myself), and excellent services.

By: sujal

sujal — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:21:32 +0000

I would suggest looking hard at Flickr. It has an ongoing cost, but if you're just looking for a place to display pics, it's a good deal. There is an iPhoto Plugin. The only thing is that it's not free if you want to create a online permanent portfolio. They limit free users to only 100 pics visible at a time, though you can upload as many as you want. I really like the service, they're a great bunch of people, and they have a good developer's API that lets you do a lot of things you want with presentation without having to deal with the disk space and simple functionality. It's not exactly what you asked for, and I will take a good look at gallery, but I find that I'd rather be taking pictures than worrying about maintaining site software for the gallery app. Sujal