Best way to display pics of the collection on a website?

nevermore · Apr 4, 2011

Already have a Photobucket but want to put those pictures on my site. Need some advice on the best way to do a gallery.

Here is how I have started...
http://oneill21.webs.com/1980s.htm

Very tedious to do, but I prefer it to the Webs.com Gallery application which one shows one full size pic at a time. I am planning to do one page for each year. O'Neill has at most 150 cards in a single year, so that would be 300 pics front/back with about 20 kb for each pic. Will it be too much to load? Any easier way to do it using the webs.com site builder?

I am not a computer guy so I would appreciate some input from those who have experience in this area. Thanks.

ronfromfresno · Apr 5, 2011

Not sure how to do it but I've always liked the layout of Drew's site.

www.thrill22.com

uniquebaseballcards · Apr 5, 2011

ronfromfresno said:
Not sure how to do it but I've always liked the layout of Drew's site.

http://www.thrill22.com

Using JAlbum as he does here has got to be one of the best and maybe easiest ways to go. If you can code a bit you can customize most of the layouts and add your own backgrounds, etc. but you don't have to.

The Chameleon skin is a great choice, Gallerific is another.

sschauer · Apr 5, 2011

I use Arles http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/ can do watermarking, resizing and webpage all in 1 plus can do batch file runs I can regenerate my whole website in about 15 minutes if I had to use to take 15 mins a page and a lot of steps. It is pretty simple to use but has some real power behind it if you dig into it.

My rose website http://www.4192cards.com

henderson939 · Apr 5, 2011

That is one hell of a Pete Rose collection/website. Great job. Love the oddball stuff.

nevermore · Apr 5, 2011

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to play around with those two and see if I can get it to work within my webs.com page. I want to try and have something displayed in site framework rather than open to a new page.

I noticed that both galleries had thumbnails which then opened to full-size images once they were clicked. Is that the best way to do it rather than have the full-size image displayed?

uniquebaseballcards · Apr 5, 2011

nevermore said:
Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to play around with those two and see if I can get it to work within my webs.com page. I want to try and have something displayed in site framework rather than open to a new page.

I noticed that both galleries had thumbnails which then opened to full-size images once they were clicked. Is that the best way to do it rather than have the full-size image displayed?

Not sure about Arles, but JAlbum has different skins that let you do both. I personally prefer having the thumbs on one side and the full-size image on the other, although this depends in part on how many images you're displaying within a page and their size...although you can limit the number of images per page if you want to.

Zambrano38 · Apr 5, 2011

uniquebaseballcards said:
ronfromfresno said:

Not sure how to do it but I've always liked the layout of Drew's site.

http://www.thrill22.com

Click to expand...

Using JAlbum as he does here has got to be one of the best and maybe easiest ways to go. If you can code a bit you can customize most of the layouts and add your own backgrounds, etc. but you don't have to.

The Chameleon skin is a great choice, Gallerific is another.

I have been using JAlbum for a while as well and really like it. I've tried some other skins, but always go back to Chameleon :lol:
http://www.carlos-zambrano.com/CarlosZa ... useum.html

parsetdx · Apr 5, 2011

I like this:

http://www.curtschillingcollector.com/index.html

I PMed with him about the APIs he used to make it happen and looked into it a bit, but now I don't have the PM. It's probably more advanced that 15 minutes a page, but I really like the look. The only thing I dislike is that it turns horizontal pictures vertical in the thumbs, but then it does display them horizontally when you click into them. I assume there's probably a way to fix that anyway.

If you're interested, just drop him a note and he'll be happy to tell you about the tech.

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