Photo boards / Gallery Needed

[Exertus]

I have a customer that would like three photo galleries on his site that he can maintain himself; however he has 0 web knowledge. Does anyone know of a photo gallery that will run on HostGator servers and has an extremly simple end user interface. If not can someone build a simple photo board that someone with zero web knowledge could manage?

[Beagle]

Just use Fantasico to install Gallery or Coppermine. They're both very easy to use...


Beagle

[whoahorse]

I have used Gallery and Coppermine.

I prefer Coppermine - but both are very easy to use.

Check my Coppermine gallery at

http://www.hoofprints.ca/gallery

Weezy

[aeoncreations]

I recommend Coppermine as well. For someone with zero web experience it may take an hour tutorial to get the basics down, but given Coppermine's intuitive interface you can't ask for more. Most other programs I tried were less intuitive yet had less features.

[whoahorse]

I agree!

Weezy

[Exertus]

Thanks for the help.

[jlgreer1]

I have been using Coppermine for a couple of years. It has been very reliable. It isn't hard to learn with a little computing experience.

Jeff

I just installed a copy of Gallery 2 (Beta) myself. It is a charm to work with, I can not wait for the first public version. Very simple, very nice layouts, and awesome performance.

[ponchos]

Originally Posted by GatorJay

I just installed a copy of Gallery 2 (Beta) myself. It is a charm to work with, I can not wait for the first public version. Very simple, very nice layouts, and awesome performance.

I've recently given Gallery 2 a go myself (now its public release). THe interface is a bit hard to understand at first with options all over the place, but once you've understood it, you find that this one is definitely the better choice out of the two. It has tonnes of modules and features that you can use including a shopping cart, and watermarking.
I've tried coopermine too but gave up them after a years due to their lack of updates (very rare, they're releasing 1.4 lately but that didnt impress me too much).

Thumbs up for gallery 2

[CyberWoolf]

If youre still looking.. check out http://www.opensourcecms.com. This is one of my favorite sites because you can check out the admin and user interface of alot of CMS and galleries out there.