The Creative Design Blog

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.

A huge selection of free or commercial software for developing an image gallery can be found on the Internet. You can even build up a Silverlight video gallery with the help of these software. If you want to build a professional gallery website of high quality, you need a qualified photo gallery software instead of a normal software which is usually used by dilettantes or people who just want to share their photos on the Internet.

Photo galleries also serve as a great tool for people who need to sell their products or services. For personal users who do not demand a professional website, there are a lot of photo sharing websites that are very user-friendly and costless to use. However, if you are concerned about security or privacy problems, you might want to have your own website for the photo gallery. This way, you do not have to upload your photos to a third-party website and your photo could then be protected most easily.

If you are searching for the perfect photo gallery software and find JavaScript and PHP way too complex to handle, Silverlight would be the best choice. It is quick and simple. It is something that not only programmers, but most business site owners and webmasters can pick up within a short period of time.

By using a Silverlight photo gallery software, you can build a gallery by clicking just a few buttons on the desktop. Then you can upload the files to your own website straightaway. Adding a new page to your site is the easiest way to add a gallery. After adding a new page, you should pick a template from a wide variety of templates that come from your Silverlight photo gallery software. Then you can browse your image files and the software can copy and insert the files into the photo album of the software automatically.

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.

Although some web hosting companies offer free and easy-to-use applications for image galleries, one disadvantage of using those applications is that you would have to stay with one web hosting company in order to keep your Silverlight albums. If you switch host, you will lose all your Silverlight albums and you would need to rebuild them from scratch again.

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.