I stumbled upon this cool little flash photo gallery script that allows you to run a cool flash slideshow on your site. It is super easy to install and use. It’s basically a few files you have to upload and change the permissions to. Then upload your images and it will create the thumbnails for you. You do need GD library installed on your server for the image resizing feature so make sure you have that installed first.
I installed it on my Photos of Norway site in just a few minutes. There is also a cool flickr script which you can also use to create a cool flash gallery from your flickr photos.
The simpleviewer script is great for showing off your photos and is perfect if you are a photographer and need to easily display your photos on your website. Because it is flash though it’s not the best for search engine optimization purposes. I would suggest putting your photo gallery either in a subdirectory or if you do add it to your homepage that you do it in a way that leaves some space for static content.
I added a table to the top of my photos of norway site that includes static links to other sections of the site that the search engines can see and I could of added more text content to the lower section of the page if I wanted but left it out since I am not running an seo campaign for my photos of norway site. But if you are concerned with using flash for your photography site then there are ways to do it where you can still create an seo optimized page mixing flash with static content.
If you are looking for a more advanced flash photo gallery script be sure to check out my photo slideshow page where I display a very nice looking flash gallery that can be embedded into any site.
If you want more information or need help installing this or any script on your website please contact me. I’m a professional web designer that can help you with your business website.
If you’d like to take a look at a cool non flash website for your photography website then check out that link. You don’t need flash for a spiffy looking site.
If you need any help designing or optimizing your website please contact me.
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August 3rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
just wondering how you got the simpleviwer link to be hidden..
Thanks!
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
I didn’t hide the link on purpose it just ended up that way after I added the header I guess. I’m not sure why the link is hidden now.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:33 am
thnx so much for this script, it works realy well and looks good
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bram
July 21st, 2007 at 11:38 am
Hi there,
Do you know how to embed this gallery onto a flash webpage. This would be a great help if you could tell me.
Thanks in advance
Zooaloop
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
To embed this gallery into another flash file you have to be able to edit your original flash .fla file. You also have to purchase the source code files of SimpleViewer. Once you do that I believe you just import the source code file as a symbol into your original flash file. There might be instructions on doing that once you buy the SimpleViewer source code.
I hope that makes sense.
Jeff
August 24th, 2007 at 5:12 am
i want to use the photos of norway slideshow on my site.. wut do i need to do?? how and where do i download the player from?? is it free??
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
I’m using their Tilt product. It’s pretty cool. Looks great. http://www.iareconscious.com/tiltviewer/
April 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
hello - in trying to add a dynamic javascript gallery - such as the one you built here - to my wordpress based site, is there an already built plug in you would recommend? thanks in advance
May 1st, 2008 at 5:13 am
I need same flash gallery as you used in your site.
http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/photo-slideshow/
please let me update how i will get them
Thanks
May 14th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I’m also interested in the flash gallery on your website:
http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/photo-slideshow/
Where can we download that one??
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Hi, I like the non-flash site. Can you tell me how you did that?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Hello Jef,
I am looking for an “advanced flash photo gallery script” for personal use (for my own website). I loved your “photo slideshow”. Do I have any chance to get it ?
Best regards,