Every web developer has to deal with image galleries. This involves looking up a bunch of images, get their path and
names, and then put them in a standard HTML layout, and also include captions and titles for the images. This process
can become quite tedious.
GalleryGen aims to ease the burden of that process. It generates HTML code for image galleries, that include Lightbox
image galleries and Slideshows. Instead of using PHP to locate images it uses HTML5 and javascript.
Key features are :
- Select images either from a file dialog window or drag and drop them. Multiple selection of images is possible in both cases.
- Sort the selected images by dragging them around.
- Delete any selected image from the list.
- Lightbox preview of the selected images.
- Two gallery options – Lightbox and Slideshow.
- Enter title attributes for anchor tags and alt and title attributes for images.
- For Slideshow – Options to enter a wrapper of your choice for the slideshow, wrappers for each image, and custom HTML code before/after each image.
- The generator outputs valid HTML code.
To know about available code output options have a look at the screenshots. Since no PHP is used, this generator can be run locally.
NOTE : This generator uses the latest HTML5 technologies and hence will run properly in modern browsers that support these technologies. At the moment these include Firefox 3.6+ and Chrome 7.0+. But Chrome has some restrictions when the generator is run locally and does not display any images. If the generator is run from a server then it works fine in Chrome. There is no such complication in Firefox and the generator works fine there no matter from where you run it.