Breezebrowser. Entirely customizable, and includes a template for a paypal shopping cart. Allows you to move the order of the pics in the gallery just by dragging the thumbs around.
It also has a very nice renaming function. tv > -----Original Message----- > From: Frantisek Vlcek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:59 AM > To: PDML > Subject: "photographs to web" software > > Hi, > I am trying to find a nice software that would help me with > updating my website more often with my photographs. So something to > automate the process of creating a page full of thumbnails linking > to larger versions, and all highly customisable so I could make it > look like the rest of my site, without too much afterediting. > Preferably it would work with editable templates which I would > first edit to match my site's style, and then not having to touch > them. Also, it should be able to automatically resize the files to > same size (for web, like 600*450), when I throw files of different > sizes to it (6MP or 3MP scans, etc). Some of these programs just > link to the original (BIG) file, which I surely don't want on the > web for everybody! > > I have tried few such programs, but found them lacking for reasons > written below. If you would know about something else, please let > me know! Thank you. > > Few mini-reviews of what I have tried so far: > > Photoshop's websheet - no customisation, too much work afterwards. > > FotoStation PRO - highly customisable, but the software is bloated > & slow & not much user-friendly in interface. And > sometimes it just mixes > the files. But it resizes the files better than others. I can just > throw at it a bunch of files of different size and it resizes them > all by a given criteria. > > ThumbsPlus - similar to above, better but still the GUI is too much > complex for what it does. > > ACDSee v5 - no customisation at all, fast creation of web page, but > without sub-pages (thumbnails just link you to image.jpg, not to a > subpage with the image embedded). Also, doesn't resize the files > for web! > > PHP code solutions running on a remote server: > > Coppermine Picture Gallery, NetGallery (?) - these two are all I > could find. > > They work reasonably well for what they were coded for - public > albums from high number of people (e.g. something like our PUG). > But making them into a one-person portfolio with my requirements > requires actually rewriting or commenting out blocks of code from > the source code files! And I am not a PHP programmer. > > Well, I can except, after my requirements, just one answer - "write > it yourself" ;-) But I hope the collective wisdom of PDML has found > few others that I have missed that might work better. > > Thanks! > > Frantisek > > > > > > Good light, > Frantisek Vlcek > >
