Need someone to help me set up a photo gallery on my website

[Jeffwo]

I am a website newbie, just know a li'l html and I would like to add a photo gallery to my site.

Here is my opening page (don't laugh)

Do I just enter the code for the gallery on the page I want it to appear on?

Also, what is a good gallery appliance?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

 

[pontifex]

does your host have a control panel with scripts and stuff?

goldmine is the one i use and i think its pretty good.

 

[Jeffwo]

Here is what I have:

Members have a choice of either cPanel or Direct Admin

Direct Admin include Installatron

cPanel includes the following:
Fantastico
RVskins and RVSiteBuilder Pro
RoundCube Webmail



All accounts include the following quotas:
All current accounts have been upgraded.

600MB of webspace
5000MB of monthly bandwidth
25 FTP accounts
25 Email accounts
10 SQL databases
5 Sub Domains


With the included Fantastico and Installatron scripts, you can install your own photo gallery or blog with just a few clicks. You also have access to web and FTP stats to view traffic that visits your website.

All accounts include Ruby on Rails support also.

 

[Jeffwo]

Any takers?

 

[Jeffwo]

Anyone?

 

[Atheus]

What exactly would you like your gallery to do? Just show a bunch of static pics? Choose pics from a database depending on X? Or actually allow you to update and change the images without rewriting the code?

If all you want is static pics then just write an HTML table with a lot of <img> tags in it and stick it in the appropriate page. If you want the second option, dynamic pics, then you will have to write some PHP or another server-side language. I and many others here could help you with that. If you want the third option you'll need either a) some kind or gallery management thing installed on the server or b) a proper content management system... overkill...

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Atheus
What exactly would you like your gallery to do? Just show a bunch of static pics? Choose pics from a database depending on X? Or actually allow you to update and change the images without rewriting the code?

If all you want is static pics then just write an HTML table with a lot of <img> tags in it and stick it in the appropriate page. If you want the second option, dynamic pics, then you will have to write some PHP or another server-side language. I and many others here could help you with that. If you want the third option you'll need either a) some kind or gallery management thing installed on the server or b) a proper content management system... overkill...

somethign like coppermine is all he needs, which is what his host offers. creating an html page or using anything would be overkill imo. coppermine is so simple to install and use compared to writing a whole html page.

 

[Jeffwo]

Hey...I figured out how to install coppermine! Here


Thanks pontifex for your help,
Jeff