Web Photo Galleries Tips

Create a Picture Slideshow on Your Photo Hosting Site

Create an Image Gallery with Affordable Web Hosting Plans

Get Traffic for Your Budget Web Hosting Site with a Web Photo Gallery

Personalize Your Photo Web Hosting Site with Web Photo Gallery Templates

Using Flash Photo Galleries on Your Photo Hosting Site

Ways to Organize Your Photos

Your Photo Hosting Site and Public Domain

Create a Picture Slideshow on Your Photo Hosting Site
If you want to add a spectacular and fun picture slideshow to your photo hosting site provided by WingSix, you can try to mess around with a lot of complicated code until you are so frustrated that you start pulling your hair. However, it is much easier to use photo gallery software that includes picture slideshow options. There are quite a few different software options available. Once you find the software you want to use, you should:

• Consider making sure people have the option of not having the slideshow play immediately upon accessing the website, especially if there is music involved.
• Keep the slideshow file on the small side, as not everyone has a high speed Internet connection.

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Create an Image Gallery with Affordable Web Hosting Plans
If your family thinks you were born with a camera attached to your face, then you are probably wondering about creating an image gallery for your photos. WingSix's most affordable web hosting plans make photo gallery hosting easy by offering Fantastico. With Fantastico, you can add a photo gallery to your site in seconds. These photo galleries provide several nice options, such as placing photos in different categories, adding captions and allowing guests to make comments about the different photos.

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Get Traffic for Your Budget Web Hosting Site with a Web Photo Gallery
If you have a pet site, a garden site, or something similar, you may want to consider adding a web photo gallery to increase your site traffic. WingSix experts agree that adding a photo gallery to your budget web hosting site can increase traffic when you:

• Hold a contest that allows visitors to add photos of their pets, gardens, etc. and then vote for favorite photos.
• Upload photos that turn the gallery into an identification resource. For example, if you add photos of all the different purebred cat breeds and add captions with the name of each cat breed, people looking for a new cat will be apt to take a look at the gallery.

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Personalize Your Photo Web Hosting Site with Web Photo Gallery Templates
If you've been looking at photo galleries on other photo web hosting sites, you've probably noticed that many of them look the same. However, WingSix suggests that you can use web photo gallery templates to turn your cookie cutter photo gallery into an individualized gallery. While you can find free templates for most of the popular photo gallery software options out there, you should be aware that you won't be the only person using them. You will still have fewer sites that look like yours than if you stick with the default template your photo gallery comes with, but to have a one of a kind site, you should be prepared to pay a designer to make a template just for you.

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Using Flash Photo Galleries on Your Photo Hosting Site
If you want a sleek, high tech photo hosting site, you may be considering the use of flash photo galleries. Flash provides options that more static photo galleries don't offer. However, some viewers will have problems viewing your gallery. Old browsers, slow Internet connections and outdated flash plug-ins can all give your visitors enough trouble that you may need to consider some alternate solutions. If you use flash photo galleries on your photo hosting site from WingSix, you should make sure you offer a second way to access essential information. Plain text or standard HTML pages with a few photos are easy to access for even the slowest Internet connection.

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Ways to Organize Your Photos
Are you overwhelmed at the thought of printing and organizing all of those digital photos you've taken? Why not use a photo gallery generator and WingSix's web hosting services to create an online photo album? You can easily organize your photos online and you can share them with your friends and relatives, too. Many photo gallery generators also allow you to decide whether to make photos private or to share them with the world, so you can safely post photos of your children in areas that are only viewable by your family, while photos of the garden can be viewed by anyone who stops by your site.

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Your Photo Hosting Site and Public Domain
So, you want to create a photo hosting site -- using WingSix's hosting services -- filled with great photos, but you have the black camera thumb to end all black camera thumbs. You do everything possible wrong when you take photos. However, you're not worried about that because you can just grab pictures from other sites instead. Actually, although many people think they can use anything published on the web on their websites, it is illegal to take someone else's work and use it on your site without permission. If you want to add photos to your site, you should be sure they are in the public domain or that you have permission to use them for your project. A few places to find photos that are legal for you to use are:

• Flickr.com. Photos that are designated as creative commons photos are able to be used for most projects.
• Stock Exchange at sxc.hu. Stock Exchange has many photos that are available for use without attribution, but it is nice to let people know who the photographer is.
• Istock Photo at istockphoto.com. Istock Photo is not free, but the photos are very reasonably priced, usually between one and five dollars.
• Government sites. Not all photos on government sites are in the public domain, but many of them are. Look for notices stating that the material on the site is in the public domain.

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