I want to host my own web gallery on a subdomain of mine to share photos with friends and family. What gallery software do you recommend?

A few ideas and resources, hope something helps. How to Make an Online Photo Album mahalo.com/how-to-make-an-online-photo-a... I found this nice summary chart comparing different photo gallery software so that you can choose the features you want. Comparison of photo gallery software en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_phot... This is a brief article that helps you decide which to choose: So You Need A Photo Gallery Website?

tutorialblog.org/so-you-need-a-photo-gal... Once you pick a system of interest, if you do a google.com search with the words photo gallery tutorials you can easily learn how each of them works. A search using the words photo gallery website templates gives you free templates to use on your site. Online Photo Sharing Gallery Reviews digitalphotographywebsite.com/photoshari... Photo Sharing Services Review 2010 Photo Sharing Services Review Comparisons http://photo-sharing-services-review.toptenreviews.com/ Which is the best free photo gallery editor?

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/080228niles/ Choosing a photo hosting site http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2005/11/22/choosing-a-photo-hosting-site/ These are not on your domain software, but I wondered if you had considered them as free options using publicly available systems with good quality photos. An amateur photographer recommended them to for the quality of the photos on there, and that it's free. I just wondered whether you had seen http://www.webshots.com/ - so many people use it and the quality is good, can you set photos for private just for friends and family for private viewing I wonder?

Here is the link for family there mahalo.com/how-to-make-an-online-photo-a...0 mahalo.com/how-to-make-an-online-photo-a...1 this is a free social networking community, anyone can create a ning, then make it private so that you get to approve anyone who enters it. Their photo capability is good plus you can discuss and each person can make their own pages and send notes, etc. A fan site that is a ning and is very good is the Dallas Mavericks http://friends.mavs.com where you can see the photos, but you can set up a Ning any way you want. Here is their about page for Ning http://about.ning.com.

Sounds like Zen Photo would work really well for you. zenphoto.org/ It is PHP based and you can upload photos via FTP. It's pretty easy to use.

Other options include Gallery gallery.menalto.com/ which is bloated. Coppermine coppermine-gallery.net/ which looks too overcomplicated.

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