Product Share your photos in Photo Gallery on your domain

Share your photos in Photo Gallery on your domain

Photo Gallery is a service from One.com, that lets you store and share your digital images in photo albums on your own domain. Upload your images fast and easy in high resolution and present them to your family and friends in your own personal photo gallery. We provide the possibilities and tools needed to make sure that you get exactly the result you want.

For example, One.com's Photo Gallery provides access to the following services:

Storage of high resolution images on your own domain
Image sharing
Templates with user-configurable layout
Adjustment of access rights and privacy
Embedding photo albums in blogs and web sites

Digital images and the need for more space

It has never been easier or cheaper to create your own images and photo galleries and share them in a photo gallery on the Internet.

Gradually as digital cameras could be found in every home, a need for storing, presenting and sharing the many digital images emerged. With it came challenges that many different technologies have fought to supply the best solution for - already before actual photo galleries existed.

With the development of cameras with increasing resolution the digital images started to take up considerably more space than before. This increased the demand for more storage-friendly disk space. Even though the increasement of megapixels no longer is as significant, the need for more megabytes is still increasing. Many more pictures are taken than previously, and gradually as many people replace their old cameras with newer models with higher resolution, the image files are increasing in size.

Image storage - advantages and disadvantages

A lot of us have been sitting around burning tons of CD's and DVD's with digital images. The advantages with optical storage media were that they were cheap in comparison with hard drives. The durability is also decent even though we still don't know for sure how it performs in the long run. The optical disks have unfortunately often winded up gathering dust in drawers and closets in attics and basements. At worst they have been stolen or thrown out by accident. Another problem with the optical media is that they are receptable to scratches, sticky finger-marks and wear and tear. The optical media has generally proven not to be the perfect storage solution for digital images in the long run. This is where online photo galleries come in the picture.

Photo Gallery on your domain

There are a lot of different services when it comes to online sharing of images in photo galleries on the internet that are completely or partially free to use. Some of the most well known photo galleries are Flickr, Photobucket and Imageshack. However, if you want full flexibility and control over your own images, the advantages of having a photo gallery on your own domain are highly obvious.

A photo gallery on a personal domain name gives you greater flexibility, data security and performance stability than the photo galleries that are hosted on domains shared with others. Combined with the flexible options for sharing and displaying, having a photo gallery on your own domain also means that you maintain the full copyright to all your image material. On the free photo galleries you do not necessarily keep the copyrights to your image material. This is because the servers and hosts that provide the free photo galleries are often placed in obscured locations, in many cases these are legally grey areas that do not guarantee the safety of your photos.

With a photo gallery at One.com, you are in complete control of your image material regardless if you are just sharing photos with family and friends - or maybe displaying them in a public photo gallery accessible to anyone on the internet. Your images on One.com's servers remain your property and it is all up to you who you wish to share them with.

Share your photo gallery on Facebook and Twitter

One of the exciting possibilities of having a photo gallery on you own domain is that with just a couple of clicks, you are able to share your photo albums by publishing them to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube and more. In One.com's Photo Gallery there is an option that makes it easy to embed photo albums in blogs and on other websites. This way you can effortlessly share the images in your photo gallery on your own domain with your friends, family and additional network, fast and user-friendly.

Free open source photo gallery on your own domain

The selection of gallery applications on the internet is wide. No matter what needs you may have for presenting or sharing your images, there is certainly a solution that will meet your demands.

One.com's Photo Gallery is just one of many options for hosting a photo gallery on your own domain. As an alternative you can choose to display the images on your web space in one of the many open source galleries. As One.com has PHP, you can for instance, install Menalto Gallery or Coppermine Gallery or any one of the many open source galleries available out there.

Read more: Here you can find Menalto Gallery

If you are looking for a gallery with a simpler user interface and with less configurable options, the Flash-based photo gallery system SimpleViewer is worth considering.