How to Create an HTML Photo Gallery

You have lots of digital photos, and you want to put them on the Web in a format that's easy for your friends and family to see. This means you need to set up a Website that people can easily navigate to see all of the photos in your gallery.

Things You'll Need

• Text editor
• Windows Movie Maker

Instructions

Generate the photo gallery

1. Pull up Windows Movie Maker. Go to the Start button in your lower left-hand corner, then select "Programs>Windows>Windows Movie Maker."

2. Import your photos. Click the text under "Import" called "Pictures."

3. Navigate on your hard drive until you find the directory you have your photos stored in.

4. Click each photo you would like to have in your gallery.

5. Add the photos to the Windows Movie Maker timeline. Put the photos in the correct order you desire.

6. In Windows Movie Maker, click "File" in the upper left corner and then select "Publish Movie." When asked where to publish the file, select "This computer," and then select "Next."

7. Give your gallery a file name. You will come to a screen where it will enable you to give the gallery a file name. Enter the file name you prefer and then put it in the directory you want by selecting the "Browse" button. Next, select "Next."

8. Publish your gallery. Select "Best quality for playback on my computer (recommended)." Click the "Publish" button.

Place your gallery in an HTML file.

1. Bring up a text editor. You may use Windows Notepad or Windows Wordpad, or you may use a text editor such as TextPad or EditPlus. (You may even use programs such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage.)

2. Type in: <a href="nameofphotogallery.wmv">View my photo gallery</a>. Be sure to use the same name you gave your photo gallery when you created it earlier.

3. Save your text file in the "photogallery.html" format. Be sure to save this .html file (which is also a Web page) in the same directory as your photo gallery .wmv file.

4. You are now ready to view your photo gallery via a HTML Web page.

Tips & Warnings

• Windows Movie Maker comes standard on Windows operating systems.