The Creative Design Blog

Owning Your Silverlight Photo Album

by Amanda Wong on Oct.07, 2009, under web design

It is very common for people nowadays to add in photo albums and image galleries as a website feature. According to your own wishes, photo album can be added as a sub-page, or it can make up the whole website, just like a photographer website.

There are numerous of free and commercial softwares to choose from when you want to build your own image gallery or Silverlight video gallery. The requirements of such softwares vary among different users. There are professional photographers whose clients will be viewing their work, as well as amateurs who are looking for fun, and people who share photos within their social circles.

Photo galleries are helpful for business owners who are trying to sell service or products through their websites. As for personal users, they usually go for the many user-friendly photo and image sharing sites available. Despite the convenience these sharing sites offer, a lot of personal website owners are trying to avoid uploading their photos to a third part sharing website. With security and privacy concerns, some webmasters have the need to license and protect the photos that they are displaying.

Using a Silverlight photo gallery software is the fastest and simplest way to develop a photo gallery. JavaScript and PHP which were mainly used by programmers in the past are too complicated. Many website owners may find the programming difficult to handle.

Within a few clicks on your Window desktop, you can create a Silverlight gallery using a Silverlight photo galleries software. Afterwards, you can directly upload the files to your own hosting account. Just add a new page to your website and then you are ready to add in a photo gallery. There should be countless photo gallery templates available from your photo gallery software. Choose one which pleases you and start browsing your image folder or image files. The photo album software is computerized to copy these files and place them into your Silverlight photo album.

With Silverlight, you can also add animation effects to your images. For example, you can first create a Silverlight photo album with animation, music and color theme, then use a ftp program to upload the Silverlight album onto your blog or website.

Free image galleries application is inclusive when you use the service of some web hosting companies. This connection simplifies the complication of these applications, but you will have to stick to the same web hosting company to retain the benefits. Once you make up your mind to change your host, none of your Silverlight photo albums will be saved. You will have no choice but to rebuild your Silverlight photo album from scratch.

If you don’t want to run into all these troubles, it is time to own a Silverlight gallery software yourself. You will no longer be dependent on your host provider. It is possible to have it installed on your computer and you will be hosting all your files. You may then upload any Silverlight photo album you have created to your own website or blog as your wish.

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