Website photo album???

[deinonchi]

Does ANYONE know of any good website photo albums that will actually USE your own site to generate a photo album for you? Or at least give you the code so you don't have to edit so much shit out for it to work and can just copy/paste into your own design? I'm tired of editing photos to make thumbnails and doing all the coding manually. :(

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[neiners]

funny, i spent this week looking for this too...no luck yet...I am taking a web design class that's supposed to touch on stuff like that though, so hopefully I can learn for us both!!

[deinonchi]

Ugh yeah I just put together a few photo albums using a generator after all that creates a seperate page. :( Not my preference but its better than nothing and it was free. If you find out how to do it within your own website give me a heads up!!!

[neiners]

Artists like Niki Foley (http://www.nikifoley.com/) and Kelly Hamilton (http://www.junglestudio.com/) seem to have figured it out .... that's kinda what you mean, right?

[deinonchi]

I think those two just sat down and did the code... Which isn't hard to do, it's just a pain in the butt at first and i'm fed up with doing it LOL.

HEY! I just came across a gallery viewer!!! It uses flash and it -appears- to be super simplem, but I haven't played with it yet. You may want to check it out for yourself. :)

http://www.simpleviewer.net/simpleviewer/

[neiners]

I can't figure out the basic code to do that! Is it Flash? Javascript?

I've actually had the most success with SimpleViewer ... but still not exactly what I want. I want what those two artists have done!!

[neiners]

I think I should already know how to do something like that, considering my college education. Ha.

[deinonchi]

Well if you don't mind doing all the editing yourself the codes are pretty easy to pick out of the websites with a quick right-click>View Source on the two artist pages above. :)

Both of the pages that you showed me use a technique called Light Box which I believe is javascript... Look it up and you'll get the code for it, it's something you have to put at the beginning (head?) of each page and in the image link itself. I've used it before it's a little tricky but it works!

[neiners]

Yesssssssssss THANK YOU, exactly the effect I wanted. I can edit the CSS file and tweak the colors a little too! (www.pitt.edu/~nim32)

I hope you got something out of this! Any luck with Simple Viewer?

[deinonchi]

Yay, glad I could help!!! Lol I've played with the litebox stuff before and like it, but I'm not sure it's what I want to do for my own actual website. I'll probably stick with the simpleviewer when I get some time to play around. :)