Can someone point me to a good Drupal Photo Gallery tutorial or book. I am trying to create a photo gallery in a grid view. However, I do not want the titles, etc. to be displayed with the photos. Also, I want to place a border around the photos to make them stand out a bit.
I am not that well versed in PHP so I want the solution to be handled completely with modules and as little coding as possible.
Thanks!
You can build your own photo gallery using Drupal modules like cck, views, imagefield and imagecache. Just search Google or Drupal.org, there are plenty of how-to's out there.
Here is a recent tutorial video: http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/148
If you are interested in learning how to use Drupal, with little/no php coding, you should take a look at Using Drupal by the Lullabot team. It covers a lot of different cases, one of them is how you can build an image gallery like you describe.
Here's a tutorial that really helped me when I was doing the same thing for the first time: http://www.primalmedia.com/blog/building-better-drupal-photo-gallery
Here's a module that puts together the Views/CCK/Imagefield configuration for a gallery: http://drupal.org/project/views_gallery
What's great about this approach is that you then end up with a cck/views-based gallery and can easily tweak it to anything you want (like not wanting to display titles, having images pop up in a lightbox with a caption, etc.) and reuse the display of images elsewhere easily.