I was looking for a better image slideshow for our clients to use a while back. The problem with some of them (I’m looking at you Flickr) is that while they are easily serviceable by laypeople, they rely on Flash and we all know Apple doesn’t do Flash. So we can’t use that. And the problem with others is that they rely heavily on Javascript which our clients can’t use for technical and non-technical reasons. Youtube has a very easy embed code, and it would be nice if Flickr would come up with something like that, but it’s nice to want things.

This Javascript plugin from Galleria.io isn’t too hard for our folks to use, and it looks pretty decent to boot. Once the script is enabled on the site it’s pretty easy to drop photos in with a little HTML knowledge, and if you’re running a departmental website you should at least be able to manage that.

I like Galleria so much I thought I’d give it a shot here on the Chron for the most recent Sutton set.

The only downside at the moment is that I’m back to hand coding the list of images. The PHP script that I have been running for the past several years made it so that I could drop photos into a folder and call it a day – it built the links between each image and dynamically generated the ‘pages’. That script was made for me, but recently I’ve been dabbling a little bit with PHP so I might be able to make that happen with this slideshow. Maybe.

Galleria has some paid themes that look interesting but I think I’ll start off with the free one for now.