Ok I appreciate ANY help you guys can offer up.. Here is the situation I need to make a website for someone, they only need the website to share photos with their family.. The person wants their family to be able to upload photos to the site so they can be shared with the rest of the family. This is what I have to work with so far… the registered URL from GoDaddy, a server to host it on and Microsoft publisher get it up and running. Here are my questions.. Is there an easier way to get this up and running on the URL he owns rather than using Publisher? Before anyone jumps on me about TwoRoad.. yes I know, but this project is WAY too small for them to mess with..
If you get the godaddy deluxe plan for about 10 bucks a month, they provide you with a photo gallery. I imagine its a php app that people can upload pictures like photobucket. No need to use any software on your end.
If you want a free PHP app to use for this, I recommend Gallery. It's excellent. I've used it numerous times in the past. http://gallery.sourceforge.net/
Jeff, I just got around to working on this and let me say THANK YOU!! That helped a ton!! YOU'RE THE MAN!!!
No problem. I love Gallery. It's da bomb. Plus, the new version (2.0) is supposedly coming out in a month or so and the beta release looks amazing. It makes it really easy to keep photo images online. I use it for my band sites and for my own photos. Cool stuff.
At first I didn't think you needed a website, that there are services out there that can do what you wanted to do for free, with certain limits. Every now and then, I use www.imageshack.us to upload photos. Bad thing about this is that ANYONE can see your photos. Good thing is that you can upload as large as a 1024kb photo and keep it at that resolution. It's a fast download too. They also allow PhotoBlogging. Free. For sharing my family's photos, I started using www.flickr.com. This is a brand new Yahoo!-owned company that uploads photos with a 20MB limit per month, next month resetting the limit. This one is good because it lets you decide who are your friends, who are your family, and which pictures you want to share with the world. Bad thing is that the largest resolution is not your original. Good thing is that they let you do various sizes, they let you do SETS, and the tools are awesome. You can even title the albums and each picture, with allowing others to add comments to each picture and to each set. Both Imageshack.us and flickr.com allow you to pay for a premium account aside from the free one, which is WAAAAYYYY cheap and gets you more features. I will pay pretty soon, because I am taking many photos with my digital camera. For developing, though, I use www.bestbuy.com/imagelab and the only disadvantage is that you have to wait a few days to get your prints back. Better yet, you can share the images with your family, and they can order prints too. You can have albums and allow some to be shared only and not others.
Services like Flickr are great if you want to use their service and go through their website. But, if you want your own site with your domain, you have to use something like Gallery.
Yeah, very true. I didn't want to post the Flickr or imageshack thing because I read he had bought the domain already, but I just wished people would ASK before going out to buy services without asking US...
