There are many ways to display and work with images on the web. This document covers a large range of techniques, but by no means covers all of the ways to accomplish the task of an image gallery.
Some of the easier ways to work with a gallery is to use existing technologies and websites. Sites like Flickr and software like Simple Viewer are great for their ease of use and that only a basic knowledge of computers is needed to utilize them. The drawback to these approaches are the lack of control and the standardized looks. Most of these can be altered and edited through templates or CSS but, not always to our exact liking
Other wonderful systems like Zen Gallery and Coppermine are very robust systems that work with PHP and Databases and are also easy ways to approach image galleries, but all too often they are difficult to edit the CSS or customize and they are often overkill for ones needs. Adobe Bridge and Lightroom also have auto-gallery makers. None of these techniques will be covered in this document.
The best way to get exactly what you want it to learn how to do it. Like they say...If you want something done right.
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The purpose of a gallery is to show off your work, not your gallery. A good Gallery should be bland, easy to use and to understand. Most importantly it should show off your product as best it can.
Follow this link to view the code needed for a horizontal scrolling gallery.
Follow this link to view a simple page based HTML gallery.
Follow this link to view an image gallery made with Lightbox. A simple to use javascript gallery.