cms for picture management website?

Question

Hi,

my friend wants to set up a website. He is photographer, and he'd like to document beautiful natural sites of Brazil.

So he'd like a webpage where, everytime he's been on a trip, he'd upload his pics. He envisions a list of clickable expeditions; on each of the expeditions you could have pics, a map, and some description. His was inspired by: Gaia Expediçoes

Preferrably, he would have nothing to do with programming, HTML, etc.

I thought of a CMS. Can someone recommend an appropriate CMS (possibly open source, ideally free)? Or any other suggestions?

Thanks fabio

Answer 1

There are several. The first that I think of is drupal which is a fully functioning cms with many add on modules and themes. You can create an entire website without doing any coding and many web host has it installed.

I know that godaddy.com has drupal and others installed in their hosting packages. You can customize and select a theme and choose the image management modules etc.

One option to look for is the gallery assist module.

Answer 2

I'd say Joomla is a good candidate. Although Drupal is as earlier said very powerful but a bit hard to master in the beginning.

Joomla has extensions that allows you to make many things with images. It's open source and free.

Answer 3

Godaddy is one, if not the most, poor, chunky and unstable webhosting.

There are plenty of webhosting that bring FANTASTICO / Install Central. Fantastico and Install Central is a "one-click" cms install.

My hosting is powweb (slow as hell) have Install central, this allow the installation of (gallery style)

Gallery2 : http://gallery.menalto.com/features Coppernite : http://coppermine-gallery.net/ Zen Photo : http://zenphoto.org/