How to Create Photo Gallery Website

Let’s begin with whether you are hosting your photos on third party web photo albums site or on your site.

You are Hosting Photos on Third Party Web Photo Albums site

Simply do a google search, you will find there are so many such sites available. However, I would highly recommend “Picasa Web Albums”.
Picasa Web Albums is the fast and easy way to put your photos online so you can start sharing. Use it with the Picasa software to upload entire albums of high quality photos in a click of the software's "Web Album" button, or use your normal web browser to add pictures from your computer. Each account gets 1GB (and counting!) of free storage - that's enough to post and share around 4,000 standard resolution photos. Best of all, you and your friends can download your photos at the same high quality to print and enjoy.

Here are steps of how you should do it:

• Create a FREE account with Picasa Web Albums.
• Download and install the Picasa software to your computer.
• Manage your photo albums (i.e. add caption, add description, resize photo, etc) with Picasa software.
• Upload your photo albums from your computer to your Picasa Web Albums account in a click of the software's "Web Album" button.
• Your photo albums are now ready to be embedded into your own website.
• Now, go to your selected photo album in Picasa Web Albums. You will find a hyperlink “Embed Slideshow” on the left navigation bar.
• Click on “Embed Slideshow” and a pop window with the options of the size of the slideshows appears. And the HTML code will just be generated automatically.
• Copy the code and paste it into the page of your website.

Dude, you’ve just got your photo gallery up and running!

You are Hosting Photos on Your Own Site

Let’s assume that your site is a cms website (Joomla). Simply because this is a very powerful cms website and create a photo gallery on it is so easy.

Here are steps of how you should do it:

• Ensure your website is a Joomla website. If not, create a website for FREE!
• Download Expose Flash Gallery from http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,254/Itemid,35/.
• Install Expose Flash Gallery using Joomla admin area.
• Upload and manage photos using Album Manager of Expose Flash Gallery (Don’t worry; this little software is very intuitive and easy to use).
• Add a menu item to show Expose Flash Gallery.
• You are done! By the way Expose Flash Gallery is FREE!!

That’s it folk!