Web Dev help needed

[DevilsRefugee]

Ok guys as you may or may not know, i am currently trying to get myself a little "part time" business up and running. I am currently doing a website for somebody who breeds pigeons (lolwut?) and he wants a gallery (that he can maintain) and the ability to sell...The selling thing isnt to much of a pain, but making a working, easily managable gallery is proving something of a "omgwtfdiditakethistaskon" sorta thing.

So...

If anybody can help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. I am willing to pay a small fee for any potential heros out there. If you can write a functional gallery that has some form of admin ability (ie to select, upload and "uniform" pictures to certain sizes etc) then im willing to half my fee with you. Its not much atm, but if i get this site (and a few others im working on) finished, i plan on marketing myself (and any potential dev) to more of the local market.

Can you be my hero? 

forgot to mention to name your price for future work..so then if people say "i want a gallery/new ticker/some form of dyanamic content" i can say "ok, well...it will cost x amount of money". Any questions please feel free to ask me.

[Humbug]

umm. okay so i quickly scanned your post..... have you not seen our gallery system.. what more would you need from that...


hmm after reading a little bit more our after a stand alone thing?!?

[Enef]

There are a lot of gallery options already out there but it seems you want a custom made one? Seems a little silly really, adding more work etc, i can look up some links to existing thongs in the morning.

[DevilsRefugee]

There are a lot of gallery options already out there but it seems you want a custom made one? Seems a little silly really, adding more work etc, i can look up some links to existing thongs in the morning.

I wouldnt mind too much if i could incorporate the coding and styling to the customers site that is currently been designed. I have had some good input from the techies on mumble (humbug and fry im looking at you) but ofcourse appreciate any input offered, cheers m8.

[Enef]

http://gallery.menalto.com/

The biggest and most well known is this one, being an artist i have searched far and wide for decent gallery software for websites and out of them all this was probably the best.

Still, not perfect.

You will probably be best figuring out how to make your own to be honest, it'll probably be easier haha.


http://coppermine-gallery.net/

There is always coppermine, a well known gallery system but with a lot of things that are overly complex, not as simple to use as one would probably want.

http://www.digicamsoft.com/softhttphotos.html

HTTPhotos seems interesting but i've not personally tried it.


Some are overly complex, to be honest, so if you wanted something a little simpler you might be best off seeing what you can grab from the various codes into making your own?

[Extro]

If you really want to make your own, I'd suggest just breaking it down into sections, and tackling each seperately.

IE, first create an upload page. Get that working, then move on to such things as album add/edit/delete pages, then a page for organising pics, and then a page for viewing the albums with pictures in them.

Then you can go back through them and cross-integrate them with each other.

But, tbh, why reinvent the wheel, if you can find something that already does the job.