Jazz up your website art, Getting interactive with online photo galleries

Published: Saturday | October 10, 2009


Anthea McGibbon, Contributor

You've created a website and, needless to say, you want to jazz it up, making it so attractive to keep your readers addicted. You don't want a totally animated site, perhaps because you are on a restrictive budget, or you just want to keep things simple by just adding a unique gallery.

Many sites and developers offer ways to create flashy sites, not unique albums for the site. Tangled in the World Wide Web are so many ways to show off your photos, especially with popular sites such as YouTube.com, Photobucket, even Kodak. But, you want more than just a slide show or a photo album, and with far more creativity.

You want to display lots of photographs, maybe hundreds, in the flashiest, neatest way, besides breaking up text. Free from too much html code, free from passwords and other elements that can be ooooh so tedious, they get annoying - BUT you've got major problems.

One main challenge you share with other website owners is that your host has limited you to just enough space to let people know you are online. It's certainly no time to panic, especially if you are a visual person. You understand the dynamics that most people around the world understand better through images, and so do developers like Cincopa.

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Of several ways you can find to upload your albums or videos, Cincopa is among, if not, the coolest - especially if you are a photographer, or an artist trying to organise an online portfolio. Or, maybe, you're in the process of improving an online presentation with an animated or flashy gallery or album.

Once you can edit your html, Cincopa offers the opportunity to create the most attractive videos, albums, add music and more, especially to Wordpress users.

At the address <"http://www.cincopa.com/wpplugin/wordpress-plugin.aspx">, you can access a free account and albums flashy enough to expose your skills and memorable snaps. After that, you can upgrade your membership, at a reasonable cost, to be able to do more.

As a basic member, you have approximately 20 choices. Varying in size, a few are presented as videos, with menus or music. The list of bragging albums available to you include:

Cover rotation (where photos slide across and interchange with each other);

Shuffle rotation (where photos are lifted and placed behind each other);

Tilt viewer (where all photos float around in a particular order, but any you click on get bigger, and if you click again, it spins around to reveal credit details you entered);

Video player with menu (a list of all the photos within this menu are presented at any side of the featured photo with photo details and credit in text. Click on any photo from the list to set the video in motion).

Samples can be viewed at

http://www.antheamcgibbon.com/how-to-boast-your-photos-in-unique-galleries.htm or throughout the entire www.oaasisinternational.org and www.antheamcgibbon.com websites.

Anthea McGibbon writes on the arts and other special projects and is also involved in children's entertainment.

 
 
 
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