flickrslider, a very neat little app for slideshows and photo galleries

This comes to us from Fırat, who is scooting around in search of slideshows or photo galleries which he wants to embed into the amateur mobile photographers community portal that he is developing:

http://flickrslidr.com/

Uses your flickr sets to create slideshows. Very nice indeed, thank you Fırat! And keep 'em coming please! :-)

One small problem seems to be that you can only create a slideshow which has a square format. Anything narrow and the images slip to the bottom. The good news is that they give you the actual code which would make it possible to tweak this. As an example, along with being able to adjust the size, ideally I would also like this to loop rather than asking me every time if I want to replay it.

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ajax/javascript/flash image galleries

Here are some really good and popular image galleries that you can use in your web pages. All of them are free, however some do have Creative Commons licenses, so read carefully if you are thinking of monetizing your sites in future. All websites contain step by step tutorials on how to setup and customize the galleries, however most of them will require you to get your hands dirty, meaning you have to go into the code.

Ajax Galleries 

MiniShowCase

GreyBox

Lightbox (most popular, slick and cool design)

Javascript Galleries

Highslide (personal favorite, very customizable, probably requires the most coding among these)

Flash Galleries

DF Gallery

Flash XML Gallery

FlShow

Will be updated... Check back for more soon.

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for slideshows...

Absolutely fabulous!

All you need to do is go to http://web.photodex.com/ and create a free account. This is an online version of the famous proshow slideshow application. These people are simply the very best in their field, so naturally what they have now developed for the web stands head and shoulders above all the competition as well. There are beautiful themes to choose from (I didn't even touch the one which I used, it was that nice to begin with), but you can customize them as well. Add music from your computer or their library. Again, I was lazy, used their music...

Once your show is done, you can get the embed code and paste it straight into the HTML editor of your post here. (Or wherever else you are creating your site, of course). And another neat thing, which I just discovered is that if you edit the show at photodex it will automatically refresh itself to the new version wherever you have linked it to, since the original URL doesn't change.

 (Tip:  The show is rendered 640 pixels wide and unless you post column is wide enough for it, it will hang off the side if you do not resize it properly. Simply resize by changing the values from inside the code, just like you do with images.  ) 

A free account has its limitations, obviously - such as that you can only use 15 photos per slideshow, your videos (yes! you can in fact embed videos into this!) have to be below a certain length, and your upload space is limited to 100MBs in total. And also I do not think that you can have HD.

I splurged and got a yearly plus account since I know that this is something that I will probably make quite a bit of usage of on my many blogs, but to start out with the free plan certainly gives you enough to play with as well.

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