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[Daz]

I'm looking for a gallery system for my portfolio site, this seems a sensible place to ask about them.

I'd like it's layout to be clean, have the style easily customisable (colours at least), with a thumbnail grid.
Clicking a thumbnail should bring up a window like the attached, or at least with the content shown in the attached.
I don't mind a small fee if it means I get a nice system without "This was made by whoever" plastered all over it.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Edited by Daz, 06 October 2007 - 06:20 PM.

[Mastermind]

Quite honestly, I like lightbox for doing large size images. It doesn't do a popup, but a quite nice clean overlay for the page.

[Daz]

Is that the thing where it opens a flash "window" with the image in?

I want to avoid anything that requires plugins. It's pretty unlikely that someone could not have flash or java but it's possible and is it's a portfolio the last thing I want is people being turned off as they're not able to access it without the extra install.

To be honest I can probably code it myself if I can get hold of a page.php from a site that uses PHP content echo stuff.
I don't know the proper name for it, but it's the thing where it displays a certain page when you click a link but the page is stored as a .inc and you only have the one .php. There's also a chunk of code that goes at the top of the .php page.

Edit:
Which I've just found in a really old site of mine on my PC...

Edited by Daz, 06 October 2007 - 07:10 PM.

[Mastermind]

No, it's javascript. Here it is.

[Lee]

Lightbox ftw.

This folio WIP might interest you, the system is very nice.

http://www.ilcreations.net/

EDIT: Artician will help with all your web dev needs =]

Edited by Lee, 06 October 2007 - 08:23 PM.

[Jeeves]

I quite like the look of jGallery for a php solution. It could be simpler, but works smoothly. I'd tweak the output though for better standards complience and semantic goodiness/css flexability...
Lightbox is a classic for a reason though, if you don't need gallery organisation.

[Mig Eater]

I'm using jGallery on the D-day site & it works well for me.

[Daz]

Picked up Gallery 2 after looking on Godwin's site.
Seems to work nicely.

[Banshee]

I'm using jGallery on the D-day site & it works well for me.

I'm not very sure if this one is as safe as it seems...