Gallery with chunky captions

November 7, 2010 8:53 PM

I need a web gallery framework with large, style-able captions and the ability to link to a specific image in the gallery.

I'm developing an image gallery for a client's website, and they want something a little flashier than plain HTML. I've found many web gallery systems in AJAX and Flash, but they all seem to provide one-liner captions at best.

I need to show extensive captions alongside the images, including headings and multiple paragraphs. I also need to display titles underneath the thumbnails, and the titles may be long, so they should be able to span multiple lines. Finally, some gallery images will cross-reference each other, so it should be possible to link to a specific image in the gallery.

Is there anything out there with this functionality? I'm limited in time so I'd like to avoid rolling my own.

posted by scose to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

What's the general CMS? Most of the big ones have very capable gallery functionality available, e.g. NextGEN Gallery for Wordpress

Gallery is meant to be very good and customisable. I've never actually used it, though.

I have used Secretary, which is a bit like Indexhibit, but a lot more up to date and easily customisable. An install of that could certainly be customised into a shape that you'd like. It doesn't automatically have an option to put images on their own pages, but you could certainly either give each image it's own project or roll your own displayer.

There may well be more concrete alternatives, but I hope this helps in the absence of better advice.
posted by Magnakai at 6:07 AM on November 8, 2010

Best answer: In the end, I found that Galleria was just about perfect.
posted by scose at 2:38 AM on November 11, 2010