Create A Photo Gallery
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David
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February 19th, 2012
Creating an online photo gallery has many uses that are valuable to a website. If you have a product to sell you can use a photo gallery to display your assortment of colors or different product lines. The other use is is you're simply starting a family website, a photo gallery is a great tool to display your latest photographs to share with friends and family.
There are a lot of different methods that you can use to create on online photo gallery. Some of them are applications that you install on your website while others are simply online programs that you can simply link to.
What Is An Online Photo Gallery
A photo gallery is an application or website that allows you to upload your photos. With this you can can share your photos with your friends or family. The other option is to simply use the photo gallery as a backup of all of your digital photos.
Photo galleries come in all shapes and sizes. A few of the more popular photo gallery website out there are SnapFish, Kodak Easy Share and SmugMug. If you're looking for something to install on your website you can find scripts with varying features and pricing.
Photo Gallery Software
As I mentioned above there are varying degrees of photo gallery software. You can find a free script at Menalto.com but it's extremely limited with it's functionality. On the other hand, LightBoxPhoto.com offers a fee based script but its features offer you just about anything that you'd need to have a photo gallery on your website.
If you happen to register a domain name with SiteToad.com you actually receive an online photo suite that will allow you to share photos plus it gives your visitors the option to purchase prints right online. As I mentioned, it's absolutely free with any domain name registration. You can find more details at SiteToad.com.
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