[thelist] Web Photo Gallery

[Todd Richards]

Thanks Martin - I appreciate the example as I was having a hard time trying
to determine what it would look like.  That small Flickr link isn't bad.
We'd probably be more interested in a thumbnail gallery if possible though.

I looked a little bit at their API, but since I haven't done a ton with
integrating stuff via an API, I'm a little lost.  I better study up some
more.

Todd



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Burns [mailto:martin at easyweb.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 3:55 PM
To: todd at promisingsites.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Web Photo Gallery


On 23 Aug 2010, at 19:42, Todd Richards wrote:

> I'm looking to implement a photo gallery into a website for my client.  
> Was looking at different PHP gallery tools, but they weren't meeting 
> the needs that I wanted (easy web-based multi-image upload, editing,
organizing).
> Then I started wondering about using Picasa, Flickr, or Photobucket 
> for the image uploading/storage, and incorporating those galleries 
> into their website.
> 
> My questions:
> 1)  Yes or no?

Will certainly make life easy for you

> 2) Recommendations on one over the other, and why?

Flickr has a very strong API - not used the others.

> 3) Does the gallery stream/albums/photos appear like they are on our 
> site, or will they just link back to the Flickr (or whoever) website?  
> I'd like them to just appear like they are on our site.


Depends - you can have them on your site as a screenshow - look at how they
integrate into Posterous for example:
http://scrapbook.easyweb.co.uk/fire-up-the-barbie
and there are plenty of RSS feeds/APIs to just grab the pics by set, by tag
or whatever, but Flickr ToS require you to put *a* link back to Flickr, so
you can't totally debrand it.

Cheers
Martin

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