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CoffeeCup Photo Gallery is a software that allows you to add animated photo gallery to your website. You can download a free trial and use for 21 days. The registered version cost $34. The software is easy to install and very simple to use, still, an online Help manual is included, and better yet, you can view video tutorials to many of the software functions online.

Integrating the Photo Gallery with Your Website

When you save your project, CoffeeCup Photo Gallery creates three files: an .swf, .html, and .xml with the name of the gallery you specified, and a sub-folder which includes all the images from your albums. You need to upload the three files and the sub-folder to your website. Basically, a Flash object (.swf) will be inserted into the HTML page (.html) and the photos will be displayed using XML (.xml). If you like your photo gallery to have the same theme as the rest of your website, you can insert the Flash object (.swf) into an HTML page created from your site’s template. If you’re using Dreamweaver, you can create a new HTML page using the site’s Template, then select Insert -> Media -> Flash to insert the fla file (warning: your gallery project should be saved in the same Site folder as your web pages).

In order for the gallery to fit into your web page you might want to resize the gallery. The default size of the photo gallery is 500×460 pixels. You can change the gallery size using CoffeeCup Photo Gallery, or if you’re using Dreamweaver, you can resize the Flash Object in the Design View. Reducing the width of the gallery might eliminate the buttons for the sound, slideshow and albums, which are displayed on the right side of the gallery by default. However, using CoffeeCup Photo Gallery you can move these buttons to anywhere on the gallery so they’re still visible when you resize it.

A Live Example

Ok, so you want to see how this looks like in real, view this website that I added a photo gallery to using CoffeeCup: http://kjainteriors.com/gallery.html.