PHOTO GALLERIES AND SCROLLING CODES

BY ANNA DALEA, ERT WEBSITE SOLUTIONS

A feature that most clients like to implement on their websites are photo galleries.  There are many different styles of photo galleries that can be created to suit your needs.  They range from:

1) A picture in the center with a left arrow and a right arrow to scroll through the gallery (stationary-one picture at a time scroller). http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/3slide.shtml
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/pslide.shtml

2) An image slideshow that changes the picture every few seconds.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/flexibleslide.shtml
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/multishow.shtml

3) Photo scrollers that scroll multiple pictures across a page.
http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/marquee/

4) Picture cube slideshows that turn the pictures in a cube-like fashion. http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/cubeslideshow.shtml

5) And then there's the good ol' fashioned flash photo scrollers.  Those can be done by hand or through a program or bit of code.

In my honest opinion, the only ones that look good without making your site look old and antiquated would be the marquee photo scrollers and the flash scrollers...there are special/creative things that you can do to the flip galleries or automatic slideshows to make them look more updated, but from a plug-and-go standpoint, use the ones that are easily editable.

The one issue I had recently with the marquee photo scroller code was that when I had it fitting how i wanted into my site, I would upload it and check it out and it would stretch the table for a split second. However, it would look odd because each time you click to another page it would stretch briefly...and what you want out of a site is fluidity!  Each page should look relatively the same in structure.

So, have fun implementing these photo galleries and being creative but there is no doubt in my mind that you may come into some road blocks.  Don't get frustrated... there's always a solution or a way around the problem.