Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Kevin Kempter<kevin at 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. > ... 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.