Best Static Photo Gallery Generator

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There are a lot of static website generators out there, but most of them seem rather text-oriented (to my knowledge). What are the best image gallery static website generators?

( Note: I realize that a more general form of this question has been already been asked. I think this question is different enough to stand on its own. )

More specific question on [softwarerecs.se]: [Generate static picture gallery website with image captions from EXIF tags](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/11135/60) — unor, Aug 31 '14 at 13:39

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 23:50

You definitely want to check sigal (demo). It is the cutest generator I've tried so far. It's also the most recent and up-to-date (inspired by pelican, the popular static blog engine - now powering kernel.org).

There is an extensive list here. Lazygal would be my second choice.

tardis · Answer 2 · 2013-09-22T20:12:18.553

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A relatively unknown gallery generator aimed mainly at photos can be fgallery (demo here). JavaScript only, but very stylish and simple. Doesn't support separate albums.

edited Sep 22 '13 at 20:12

answered Sep 18 '13 at 19:04

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 18 '20 at 12:16

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llgal turns a folder of images into a simple gallery site with one simple command: llgal.

It's very tweakable.

Some basic options to get started:

--title "My Holiday Pictures" sets the gallery title to "My Holiday Pictures".
--sx 800 and --sy 800 scales the each framed image to max 800 height or max 800 width, and links to the full image.

Putting it all together:

llgal --title "My Holiday Pictures" --sx 800 --sy 800

and you're done!

edited Sep 18 '20 at 12:16

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answered Jan 15 '14 at 03:03

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Updated link here https://github.com/bgoglin/llgal – Colin D Aug 27 '20 at 05:11

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 14 '11 at 11:20

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I found jAlbum to be quite nice. It allows to create static galleries, and users can pick between different skins (or create their own). jAlbum is written in Java and is available for download for a variety of platforms.

answered Jun 14 '11 at 11:20

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 08 '11 at 15:10

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It's been a few years since I used it, but I found BINS did just what I wanted. Not sure if it's still maintained.

answered Apr 08 '11 at 15:10

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Looks dead. Link is to freshmeat/freecode that links to http://bins.sautret.org/ which is an empty page with title "default". Going up a domain serves a frame enclosing http://jerome.sautret.free.fr/perso which no longer exists. – Stéphane Gourichon Mar 13 '20 at 15:37

Best Static Photo Gallery Generator

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