Create a Photo Gallery
A photo gallery is easier to use than just a bunch of text links with images. There are generally two kinds of photo galleries out there:
1) Dynamic photo galleries are those created with a script.
2) A thumbnail HTML based photo gallery
Dynamic Photo Galleries
Installation Requirements
As always, the products aimed for anyone must be easy to install, so are these. They come with help files and basically you just need to put code pieces on your page.
The requirements vary from PHP to Flash and so vary the bandwidth needed. Flash takes more time to load than PHP. All web hosts should have PHP support (except the free ones), Flash is supported by many. Inquire your web hosting company for details.
Good Dynamic Photo Galleries
For PHP I would like to recommend phpGraphy photo gallery script. It has plenty of features, it's light weight and easy to install. Because it's written under GPL license, you can modify it to your needs.
Flash gallery to be recommended is Flash Gallery. Flash Gallery is a FREE, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about the images to show, it's lightweight and simple.
Thumbnail Photo Gallery
This is a bit difficult to make but very good option if you don't or can't take those scripts on your website.
1) First, get Easy Thumbnails, install and open it.
2) Choose the pictures to turn into thumbnails, set the size, other attributes and click on the pics with right mouse button. Choose to create a web page.
3) Navigate where the pictures are and open the HTML file just generated with your favorite editor. You can move the thumbnails to the gallery page.
4) If you want, create the links to the pages with the actual pictures or to the download of the picture from the thumbnails.