Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Kevin Kempterkevin@kevinkempterllc.com wrote:
Are you familiar with Joomla? It has some easy web gallery plugins. Also tools like aperature and lightroom will generate a web gallery for you from a set of images.
Thanks for the suggestion, but ... to be more explicit, the situation for which I'm (not very hopefully) seeking a solution is one in which the web host is both dumb and restrictive. They are not running Apache, they don't supply PHP or a CMS or a database, and they don't allow user-uploaded CGIs of any sort to be executed. The full extent of server-side customization possible is to drop a file called "index.htm" in the directory which will then be served up instead of a dumb listing. Everything else has to happen in the browser.
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oh.
check into JAlbum, which builds albums -ahead- of time, and uploads them as static HTML + thumbnails + 'slides' + optional originals... it has 100s of templates for different visual themes, many of which are fairly interactive (usuing browser-side javascript)
By doing all the resizing and stuff in advance, you greatly alleviate the workload on the server.