Website Building 101 Flickr or Gallery2?

20Jan08

    My whole family, and many of my friends, are photographers of one sort or another. So I really want to provide the best solution on my website. Should I integrate an off site service like Flickr, or host everything on site?

I did a bit of research (one good article here). I read about Coppermine, Gallery2, Flickr, and have some experience myself with online photo hosting services. Since I don’t want to spend any money on a Flickr pro account, here is the solution I came up with: Host all pictures with Gallery2, but co-locate many of this pictures on Flickr as well. This way, should my semi-pro or professional photographers want to set up shop on my website, they can easily do so with full control “and no money down”.

I’ll be looking for a way to auto-transfer photos from a Gallery2 site to a free flickr site. I’m guessing that people are already doing this kind of thing. Years of experience with free solutions and low bandwidth tells me this is very likely. Long ago, when bandwidth was at a serious premium, we had to create all sorts of piggybacking solutions to move large files. Ever try to download something on a 2300 Baud modem? Lol.

I’ll fill you in on more details after I get Gallery2 up and running. I’m really excited to come up with hosting solutions for friends and family, and to establish a webspace for other purposes as well. And that reminds me: I still need to outline what this website is going to be about….

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  1. 1 photofantastic on February 22, 2008 said:

    Interesting article. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I’ve been playing around with Gallery2 myself but, being a designer rather than a programmer, I prefer to let someone else deal with the technicalities and opted for a separate online account at SmugMug. Have you checked it out? Best online photo hosting/sharing service I’ve found – best of all it’s ad-free, fast, reliable, flexible and secure, and offers massive capacity (filesize, resolution, bandwidth). You can read more about my experiences in my post at http://photofantastic.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/online-photo-sharing-sites/

    Thanks again, Max ;-)

  2. 2 Bob Nightingale on January 8, 2009 said:

    I’ve been using Gallery2 for a while. We’re upto 12,000 “items” which are photos and menus.

    If you want to use it as an add-on to your website, you need to turn on all the features. The documentation and user community support is pretty good.

  3. 3 feenoxymn on May 24, 2009 said:

    Добавил в избранное, очень интересно, спасибо.

    здесь видел ет gamebulletin.ru

  4. 4 David on August 17, 2009 said:

    I think you mean 2400 baud.


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