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3 Free Photo Gallery Tools
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It might be easy to find a free photo gallery script you can get up and running on your website. However, not all scripts are created equal. Sometimes you might want a simple page dedicated to photos, and other times you might need an entire domain dedicated to the idea of showcasing your images. I have searched the Web high and low to bring you the best free image gallery tools for big projects, medium sized projects and lightweight projects.
Here are the three best free image gallery scripts, depending on the job you need them for.
An Advanced Free Image Gallery Script
Zenphoto is a great gallery tool that also comes with some CMS (content management system) options to make it a great tool to use to run your entire website. It doesn’t try to do too much though, when it comes to features. it keeps things simple by just delivering one of the best web media gallery management tools out there. Once installed, the administrator interface is pretty easy to pick up and with the online template system they have – you can create a beautiful website in no time at all. Zenphoto can also handle audio and video too – which makes it an all in one multimedia gallery tool too.
A Middle of the Road Free Image Gallery Script
Minishowcase is another good gallery script that keeps things really simple. With just a little PHP and JavaScript, you can put together an online gallery of photography, artwork or anything else without the need of configuring databases or customizing the code. You can literally get this script up and running in just a few minutes. All you need to do is bring the content to showcase. If you need a gallery tool that is on the simple side (but still looks good) there is no better choice than Minishowcase.
A Very Lightweight Free Image Gallery Script
SmoothGallery is the last album script I have to share with you today. Using mootools, this fantastic JavaScript gallery and slideshow system lets you setup a simple image gallery, slideshow or showcase anywhere on your pre-existing website. While you could not use this tool to run your entire website, it does make for a great way to showcase your work on the website you already have set up. So if you would rather just showcase your images on one section of your page, rather than dedicating an entire website on it – SmoothGallery is a great script to use to get that job done.
There are plenty of more scripts out there, but these three of the best for the occasions you need them. Zenphoto makes for a great tool to base your entire website off of. Minishowcase is a nice lightweight gallery tool that could maybe be put in just one section of your website. Then, last but not least, you have SmoothGallery. It would let you display your images on a single page, just to quickly show them off to your website visitors.
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3 Best Image Gallery Services
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There are thousands of free image host out there, but not many that focus on providing you a cheap or free place to host an online gallery for your photography, images or artwork. If you do not want to upload a script and run it from day to day, you might try one of these three free image gallery hosting services to get your own portfolio hosted online.
Picasa
I had to throw one generic free service into the mix, and Picasa is the one I decided to pick. Now run by Google, Picasa not only gives you a place to host pictures – but also comes with a very powerful desktop client to organize your collections with too. If you have a Google account (and really, who doesn’t these days) go check it out and see if you like it.
Flickr
Flickr is another awesome and free way to upload and share your digital images online. It might be one of the most well known photo sharing websites on my list today, and there is good reason for it. It works, and it is where the people are right now. You can create an account for free by logging into the Flickr website with your Yahoo info, and you’ll be ready to upload soon after that. You can also organize your collections, share them with friends or limit who can see them too.
SmugMug
The SmugMug service is an interesting alternative to Flickr. It seems to do everything Flickr does, and I am sure the developers of the service would say they do it better. Where SmugMug might hold the advantage is when it comes to selling your prints online. They have a nicely integrated service that makes buying prints or merchandise with the prints on it very easy to do. It might not have the community that Flickr does, but it is not short on features either.
So there you have it – which one of these services do you like the best? Do you have another that you love more? Send your thoughts to me in the comments – cause I would love to check out what you use for free image gallery hosting.
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Making Money on Affiliate Hosting – Podcast 206
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I might have been missing in action for a few weeks, but I have finally figure out a way to make it up to you. I’m going to share my tips with web hosts on how to get more web hosting clients and I’m going to tell the webmasters out there how to earn more money. So what is the secret? I have one word for you. Affiliate.
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Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.48 MB
The world of affiliate hosting, for both web hosts and web hosting clients is surrounded with a lot of buzz words and scariness.
Today I will cut through the clutter to help you understand it all. Here is what I have lined up for this week’s show:
Earn Cash on Web Hosting Referrals
There are hundreds of web hosting providers out there that provide affiliate programs for you to join. The questions now are, what is an affiliate program? Why would I want to join one? What can I do to make my affiliate links more successful? Well, I hope to bring you up to speed as I discuss the benefits of affiliate programs for your average webmaster.
How to Setup an Affiliate Program
Are you a web host looking for a way to bring in new customers, and reward current customers or web site owners for doing the dirty work for you? Then you might want to look into setting up an affiliate program. It takes some capital stored up to get started, but once you do – you will see your new accounts list grow and grow every single day.
This week’s podcast should be a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy listening to it, and let me know some of your favorite affiliate tips and tricks too. By sharing our ideas and opinions we can all make the world of affiliate hosting a better place for everybody to make money in.
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Instant Screencasts for Twitter and Beyond
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Twitter makes for a pretty nice way for a web host to get it’s message out to their customers quickly. You can send a message to everybody that is following you, or you could answer just one person, if needed. Screenr is the way to get that job done. You can instantly record a screencast, all with web based software – and share it anywhere.
Quick and Easy Screencast Creator
The thing that makes Screenr so twitter-tastic is that it gives you the ability to login with your Twitter account, and instantly tweet your video tutorial when you are done. The recorder is powered by Java, so there is no extra tools to have to download either. Just hit the record button, drag that tool over the space you want to record and your ready to go.
Here is a demo video I created with about five minutes of planning and production time:
As you can see, sometimes you can be helping one person on how to do something – and show many more in exchange. I am sure there is a metaphor in that statement somewhere having do to with teaching that man how to fish too. You can try Screenr for free at Screenr.com. When you do come back and show man what you created.
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Create Your Own Video Tutorials
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For any web host out there, having video tutorials showing off your services is a nice thing to promote to your customers. It is always better to show somebody how to do something, rather than just have them read text. If you are looking for a low-cost way to create your own simple tutorial collection, look no further than ScreenToaster.
Once you sign up, you can use it from anywhere at any time. It captures video on the screen with simply one click. You can record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training and more. Then you can turn around and embed them on blogs, web pages, or send them via e-mail.
Here is an example video to check out:
It really is a fantastic and free way to create your own video tutorials. To give it a shot for yourself, or to learn more about how to use it, be sure to check out ScreenToaster.com.
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Free Video Tutorial Fun – Podcast 203
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I have not one but two ways you can use the power of some awesome online tools to create your own video tutorials, for web hosting or anything else on your computer screen. Also I’ll explain the myth of unlimited hosting and talk a little about what the web hosting world is doing about the disaster in Haiti, all on this edition of the Web Hosting Show.
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Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.30 MB
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Create Your Own Video Tutorials – For any web host out there, having video tutorials showing off your services is a nice thing to promote to your customers. It is always better to show somebody how to do something, rather than just have them read text. If you are looking for a low-cost way to create your own simple tutorial collection, look no further than ScreenToaster.
- Unlimited Hosting, Fact or Myth? – When you walk into an all you can eat buffet, nobody expects you to eat all the food in the restaurant. You might fill up your plate three or four times, but you can not eat everything in sight. The same could be said for unlimited services you might see when it comes to web hosting.
- Web Hosts Helping Haiti Victims -It is always a good thing when you can share some positive news about web hosts joining web hosts for a good cause. Hosting for Haiti is all about the biggest and brightest web hosting companies in the world coming together to support the victims of the earthquakes that happened in Haiti last month.
- Instant Screencasts for Twitter and Beyond – Twitter makes for a pretty nice way for a web host to get it’s message out to their customers quickly. You can send a message to everybody that is following you, or you could answer just one person, if needed. Screenr is the way to get that job done. You can instantly record a screencast, all with web based software – and share it anywhere.
Quick Tip #4 – The Clippings add-on for Firefox makes for a great way to store your own quick responses for your web hosting customers.
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