I was working on a project for my personal website and I ran across a fabulous piece of open source software for creating a photo album on the web. The software is called Gallery.

As their website says:

“Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. You must have your own website with PHP support in order to install and use it. With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. Give accounts to your friends and family and let them upload and manage their own photos on your website! ”

It is very easy, very professional looking, and very powerful. If you are looking for a quick, easy way to add a photo gallery to you website, this is the answer.

–Pete