Photo galleries on sites

[DionM]

Hi all,

Still a busy bee, sorry for the total lack of appearing on the site of late. Renovations, baby due soon, busy work ... it's all happening.

Anyway, I am looking at revamping my photo galleries soon.

So I ask - what kind of galleries do people like?

Do you like browsing small galleries that shows 5-10 great photos in each 'category' (eg Macro, Places, etc), and only about 30 photos all up?

Or do you like to spend hours wandering through lots and lots of photos?

I think I know the answer, having studied the logs from my own site (which falls into the latter category) but I would be interested.

And what you like - traditional 'gallery' software, or something with a bit of slickness (eg flash-based) ?

[bwhinnen]

I'm actually about to go through a re-do process on our business gallery (only one section at the moment). But to offer a small number of choice photos available in the main galleries and sections, but have the other galleries archived in a different section (in effect hidden from the normal browse-able gallery tree).

I think to pull in the interest you need the initial impact of small numbers of good quality work and then give those that want to browse through hundreds of images the chance in other areas.

My personal ideas and opinions. Our gallery is based on the Gallery V2.1 software with customised theme work.

Cheers,

[Glen]

Hi Dion, You certainly have plenty on with renovations and a baby on the way. Enjoyed some of your recent posts on the other site, the ones of the uni really came out well.

I think you have to decide who the viewer is. If it is the public you are trying to showcase your work to, I would suggest the smaller gallery. If you are showing it too other photographers, I think the more extensive galleries are better as other photographers don't expect every image to be a wow image and have a greater interest.