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I frequently receive requests from clients who want to create and maintain their own photo galleries. The obvious freebies like Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, JAlbum are fine for a lot of uses, but clients are often fussy about integrating the photo galleries into their own web site themes.

Finding something that would meet all the customer criteria for ease of use in dealing with picture sizing, optimizing, uploading and ongoing self-management while being sufficiently “white label” enough to integrate into existing web sites was proving to be quite a challenge. After a lot of searching around on the web for gallery generators, I finally came across DPHOTO http://www.dphoto.com This is a “cloud-based” photo hosting service.  It seems to perfectly fill my extensive bill of requirements for absolute simplicity in creating and maintaining very clean and professional photo galleries that my non-technical customers can cope with on very little learning.

Despite the management simplicity, the DPHOTO service is packed with cool customization features making it very versatile. DPHOTO does charge hosting fees but these are very reasonable/affordable. DPHOTO offers a 30 day free trial so you can give it a no-obligation, full-feature test drive before subscribing.

Once the service is set-up it can be displayed through an iframe which can set into any given web page theme to display the galleries. Once the iframe and source link is set up, the customers can change/add/update galleries without ever going near their website templates or code.

To my mind, this is an excellent service so I hope it survives and thrives. Get yourself going with a quick sign-up for a free 30 day trial.