I have used ImagEngine. It's a little long in the tooth, and not as artsy as some, but it's reliable, stable, easy to install and configure, plus flexible enough. It generates genuine html code. http://www.insyse.com/
>Frantisek Vlcek wrote: > >> 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 >> -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com
