Windows XP+

Xhtml Photo Gallery

Version 2.4
(May 24, 2009)

Download the Windows Installer package:   XhtmlGallerySetup.msi (428 KB)

Download the standalone package:   XhtmlGallery.zip (330 KB)

Presentation
Installing the program
Sample Galleries
Style sheets for the galleries
Version History
Note

Note

This program is shareware.
You may evaluate it freely. If you like it and intend to use it, thank you to contribute

Presentation

The Xhtml Photo Gallery program helps you build photo galleries very easily, for viewing in an internet browser, either locally or on a web site.

Different layouts of galleries may be built: With thumbnails aligned on a side of the image (top, left, right or bottom); As tabular thumbnails index pages linked to a navigable list of images; or as a slide show that play automatically, at a chosen pace, and may loop endlessly. The galleries may be built as standard xhtml pages, or in a single dynamic page, using JavaScript.

The gallery pages conform to CSS and XHTML 1.0 standards. This allow great versatility for customization. You may also use web templates to achieve consistent results with a specific web site design.

The size and quality of the images and the size of the thumbnails may be set; you may also add page transitions (for Internet Explorer); you may set a consistent style for all your galleries, or edit each style (colours, fonts, borders...) separately. A text or picture watermark may be added to the images, at a chosen level of transparency.

Images can be inserted, removed and sorted very easily.

Once a gallery is built, you may change its aspect in a click with style sheets. A few sample style sheets are provided. You may edit styles to create as many different style as you want and save them for future use.

Using the standalone package, you may set multiple installations for the application in order to manage several layouts in parallel, without the need to change the settings each time you create a gallery.

To Install

Standard Windows Installer Package

Download and run the installation module XhtmlGallerySetup.msi. It is a Windows Installer file that takes care of all the install process.

A shortcut is created on the Desktop and an entry is added to the Program menu.
A "My Documents\My Xhtml Photo Galleries" folder is created as a root folder to contain the galleries.

Standalone package

Download the zipped file XhtmlGallery.zip, and extract the files to a gallery working folder of your choice, and run XhtmlGallery.exe from this folder.

Sample Gallery layouts

Index page using a table of thumbnails
This is a classical presentation using a index page of thumbnails, leading to a browsable list of images.

Thumbnails on top (or bottom)
This presentation uses a horizontal thumbnail stripe over the image.

Thumbnails on the left (or right)
Here, the thumbnails are aligned vertically on the left of the image.

Randomized Slide Show
Images can also be presented in an automatic slide show. In predefined order, or randomized.

Style Sheets

The HTML Photo Gallery program is provided with a few style sheet templates, which are only meant to show you some simple presentation options, suited for every layout. Use the internal style sheet editor to edit the main elements of the layout. If you are a CSS expert, or if you use a sophisticated style sheet editor, you may set even more appealing aspects for your galleries.

You may even create a gallery template, from a dynamic web template, in which the gallery will take place.

If you create elaborate style sheets and want to share them, you may send them to us. We will consider proposing the interesting ones on this site.

Version History

2.4	2009/05/24	- Memory leaks when generating images during build - First build of gallery from non JPG images may yield improper links in pages in some conditions (bug from V2.3). - Cancel long build jobs is more reactive.
2.3	2009/03/02	- Galleries can use UTF-8 encoding (over the default iso-8859-1). - Picture files may be renamed and renumbered. - Navigation icons may use png format. - Minor enhancements and bug corrections.
2.2	2008/10/10	- Option to use safer file names for greater compliance between navigators and providers. - You may add a link to a common home page on galleries. - Slight changes in gallery generation and a few bug corrections.
2.1	2007/06/27	The check forcing galleries to load on top of browser window is now optional.
2.0	2007/01/12	Fully redesigned version, renamed Xhtml Gallery. Generates valid XTHML 1.0 and uses CSS. Selection of source images more flexible. New gallery layouts, can build single page galleries using JavaScript. May insert galleries in predefined page templates. Watermarks may use drop shadow for better readability.
1.2.2	2006/07/26	Invalid images may prevent web page creation. (completes correction in 1.2.1).
1.2.1	2006/07/24	An invalid image file may crash the program.
1.2	2005/12/23	Program could crash when style is empty or absent. Labels were truncated if comma is present. Online contribution option changed.
1.1	2005/10/05	First English version.