It’s human tendency to get enticed by pictures. People love to share pictures with friends, family, and colleagues, and image galleries are a popular feature of any community-focused web site.

“…..words & pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone”—William Albert Allard

If you complement the content of your website with pictures, it enhances the impact of your website manifold. You can easily build user retention and drive traffic with easy to edit and manage image gallery with the help of Image Gallery Applications.

With Image Gallery Applications, you can:

• Upload and share images with friends, family, and colleagues
• Manage image galleries and edit photos quickly and easily
• Build traffic, increase readership and user retention
• Customize the image gallery as per your exact needs

Let us give you an overview of some highly customizable Image Gallery applications we have in store for you at LimeDomains.

Coppermine

Coppermine, an easy-to-use, multi-lingual web-picture gallery script, offers full multimedia support and handy features like thumbnail creation, and also privacy control with user & group management. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.4.21 of Coppermine.

Some of the features of Coppermine are:

• Its all features are compatible with web interface.
• It features user management, and organizes them into multiple groups.
• It has multimedia capabilities & offers multi-picture upload facility.
• It allows image rotation & offers image caption, title & user-defined fields for all images
• Some popular plugins: Master Template, Timeline, Calendar etc.

ZenPhoto

ZenPhoto, an online gallery application designed to be ‘a simpler web photo album’, helps in dynamic image processing, creation of folder-based albums, simple image management, online uploads, editable titles and descriptions powered by AJAX etc. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.2.1 of ZenPhoto.

Some of the features of Zenphoto are:

• It helps in the creation of dynamic albums.
• It’s highly customizable with preset themes.
• It’s highly flexible with EXIF & IPTC support for images.
• It has spam filter options & watermarks.
• Some popular plugins: Slideshow_Flash, Zenphoto Sitemap etc.

Gallery

Gallery, an easy-to-configure, intuitive web based photo album organizer, helps you to blend photo management effortlessly into your own website whether it’s a small personal site or a big community site. LimeDomains currently supports version 2.3 of Gallery.

Some of the features of Gallery are:

• It helps in easy administration of multiple photo albums.
• It offers auto-image rotation, RSS publishing, numerous images/albums.
• It offers Mirroring albums using which users can mirror their albums on any desired remote server.
• It has a lot of customization options, attractive themes etc.
• It can be integrated easily into varied CMS.

Get started with adding these image editing and gallery management tools to your web site—all at LimeDomains.

A multi-lingual, multi-purpose and integrated photo gallery web application—Coppermine—offers full multimedia support and enables users to upload pictures with web interface or ftp. This open source software, written in PHP and MySQL, facilitates arrangement of pictures in categories and albums and provides support for GD Graphics Library and ImageMagick. It’s also compatible with most web server software.

After you’ve purchased a domain name and a web hosting plan on our platform, the next step that you need to take for creating your image gallery is to install the application ‘Coppermine’. The steps to setup your website on LimeDomains using Coppermine image gallery are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘Coppermine’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Enter the admin username, password and email address. After that enter the database details. If you want Coppermine to use Imagemagick to generate thumbnails then you need to give the Imagemagick path. Click on ‘Let’s Go!’

Step 7: Click on ‘Let’s Continue!’ If your installation in successful you will get the welcome message.

Hey your Coppermine image gallery is successfully setup on LimeDomains now.

Start uploading pictures now!