What is the easiest way to put a photo gallery into an existing website?

You can use Adobe Bridge (it is built into Dreamweaver) and Adobe Fireworks.  Once you have Dreamweaver open, go to File and you will see "Browse in Bridge".  Adobe Fireworks is a separate program and must be installed to make this work.  The instructions below are step by step and I was able to follow them even though I am not overly experienced in Dreamweaver.  I created these with Dreamweaver CS4 but the instructions below should work for CS5 as well.

The first address here is to create a photo gallery with the Adobe Output Module which you open in Bridge.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/WSCF044571-2772-4d28-9EBD-2C9F46AF008A.html

The second address explains how to incorporate the gallery into a Dreamweaver page.

http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/gallery/embed1.php

Here is my wife's website for her art:   www.tanglewoodbrushstrokes.com

You may want to look at the galleries there first to see if they are what you are looking for. 

There are two disadvantages to these galleries.  One is that to add or subract images requires creating a new gallery.  The good side is that this can be done fairly quickly once you become accustomed to how they are created.  I can do a new one now in a half hour or less.  To make it easier, you can go to split screen once you have the new gallery made and substitute the html for the new gallery in place of the old one without recreating your page parameters for the gallery.

Secondly, the galleries created in Fireworks use flash technology so they will not work on Iphones or Ipads.  To correct this on my wife's website, I upgraded to CS5.5 in order to use HTML5.  I am going through the tutorials for creating HTML5 web pages now.  Once I have completed them, I will be re-doing my wife's site.  I haven't yet figured out how I will create and install the galleries yet.  I have posed a question about albums for HTML5 on this forum.  Using HTML5 appears to be more complex than what I have experienced in the past, but we will see.

Hope this helps.  Don't get too frustrated when you go through the tutorials above.  Take your time and you will be able to figure it out.  If I could do it, so can you.  I am a 65 year old retiree who only began working with Dreamweaver about three years ago.  My work experience was not in the computer field although we bought our first computer, an Apple IIE, in 1980.

How about using a simple nanoslider. I use it for a slideshow on my site. As a serious beginner to dreamweaver, I found it very easy. You might be annoyed with writing the names of all the photos into the code and having to change the order depending on how many pictures you have, but it is free and good for a beginner.

http://www.yourrightmovellc.com   see...

You're looking for the easiest way, correct? I mean we're talking easy here.

Purchase a plugin. Run the plugin. Done.

For a photo gallery, there's Project Seven's Image Gallery Magic. There's also Lightshow Magic by the same company. And if you have Fireworks along with Dreamweaver, Project Seven's Slide Show Magic will size the photos for you, place them in a folder in your website ready for upload and boom! You're done.

Very easy.

These plugins do cost money. But I do place a value on my time and if they can get me where I need to go in a few minutes instead of a few hours, it's worth the money. Use them for your existing website problem. Use them in years to come for websites you design later.

I am having the same problem. Can anyone look at my source code and tell me what I have done wrong. I must have tried to integrate my adobe web gallery into dreamweaver cs5.5 at least 50 times...not kidding... It's really frustrating. http://www.diannebey.com/gallery.html

I will probably revert to some other gallery with lightbox...but I had wanted to see if I could get the adobe web gallery publishing feature to work.

I know I have to link the index file to the iframe...but I am having trouble identifying files, div id and gallery names...not sure which one is most important. Can anyone help me with this?

Ok I worked with some documentation about iframes that Hans had suggested awhile back.  Thank you DS18108 for the recommendation.  I did manage to get the gallery that I made in Bridge to load.  It's not amazing but it's something.  I'll continue to tweak it and learn.

Thanks to everyone for the help so far.  I think ultimately I'd like to get one of the lightbox galleries to work. 

Thank you! 

Thanks for the replies everyone but I think I need to reiterate that this is for an existing page.  I don't want to create a new page.  I have a template and I just want to insert it into the editable region.

Grammps thank you but I just don't think you're understanding how confused I am at this point.

I need something AT LEAST twice as step by step as that.

Remember, I'm the dumbest person in the world.  You wrote out a quick list that the other 99% can seem to understand.  I need every single thing explained at this point. 

For instance, you said in #3 In MY WIDGETS...I don't know how to get to MY WIDGETS.  Again you assumed that 99% could figure that out on their own.  I'm the other 1% remember? 

In #6 to click insert and to choose COMMON and then widget.  I don't see COMMON anywhere.

I tried to struggle through and all I'm stuck with is the same set of broken links with no explanation as to how to get my images to appear in there as thumbnails.

DS8108 I may try that but at this point I'm ready to give up.  I need to get this done!!!!

I've been up every night for HOURS trying to get one of these to work.

Sleepness nights. 

Maybe it's just not meant to be. 

I do appreciate your help everyone but I've yet to get a step by step from anyone that I can understand clearly I'm sorry.  

Personally i prefer old fashioned html:

Start a new webpage. Add any number of pictures with text in between each picture (image).

Start multiple pages, each to represent an individual gallery. It really depends on how many art-works you will add over time: Just a few? Or will your collection grow into hundreds?

Make your home page a menu for the other pages. "Menu" is a huge subject and after more than a decade watching the available options for menus, it is clear to me that menus can become a nightmare for an artist's free form creativity, if an artist keeps expanding creatively.

Name each page with a specific gallery name. Or devote each page to one picture with text. Use links below at bottom of page, to see other pictures. Yet after you have hundreds of pictures to show, it is easier to use one page for a menu, or several separate pages to contain differing collections or galleries.

Another serious issue is the resolution of picture and it's file size... Photoshop is great for reducing file size, while maintaining acceptable resolution. Yet recall that the viewer might have a very low resolution display...

Frankly, it is hard to see advantage in using more complex code than that. Unless you want pop ups, vidoe, of frame-styles like printed magazines, or specialized publications...

Trouble with these special stylizations is that these do restrict your content to users with similar computer set ups and great web connections. The audience has to update their computer to see all the latest jazzy code correctly. If the view has substancially different OS versions, the jazzy code won't display properly. Chances are the person you want to reach will find you on some sort of future phone thingy.  Chances are that web connections can fluctuate a lot, viewer computers might be more limited and all for so many reasons. One's targeted audience can also be difficult to reach for many other diverse reasons, in addition to technical web options.  One shoe cannot fit all artists, nor can it fit all gallery goers, nor all ages, nor all cultures. Therefore, html is the most common denominator.

First of all, let me say that I just fell out of my chair laughing...Ready to kill someone. I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I seriously do. I simply love designing websites and I've been trying to learn on my own and sometimes it's enough to make me scream!!!!!! Okay....I've been using the web photo gallery in photoshop for over 10 years. But I wanted something that I could easily write captions on and not have to recreate the album every time. So I recently started using http://jalbum.net/en/ ....WOW...it truly is easy. You will literally be walked through the steps. Just remember that your link from your page to the photo album has to link to the index.html file in your photo album folder. Everything to do with that photo album MUST be in the folder too. I really hope that helps. It certainly helps me. Here is one I created last week: http://www.barryhyde.com/photos.html Just remember when looking at mine, that it is VERY basic. They have other templates that are much better looking.

You can edit the css if you know how to do that. I struggle, but if I'm not sure I edit one line at a time and test. Then you can undo and start again.

I really hope this helps you.

Donna

Hello Dan,

I made a very reduced gallery for you. You only have to put back your properties again. Please have a look here: http://hansgd.de/AdobTest/_metz/GalleryHG.html

Hans-G.

Hello Dan,

in this (new) case, may I reapeat my recommendation to the simplest way to create a photo gallery by using "http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/".

There you wil find the wished detailed step by step description (see HOW TO USE).

Hans-Günter