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I want to create a page on my own website that uses a frame to display a third-party site and then upload photos to that third party site for display. I'm not looking to hotlink, but rather redisplay a section of the other site.

Image gallery creation isn't trivial (Edit: mainly the file-hosting or hotlinking parts), and I'd prefer to leave it to the masters, but still have the embedded section be able to look reasonably nice on my own site.

So yeah, any photo-gallery sites out there that provide nice embedding services with robust text captioning?

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It isn't your question, but image gallery creation doesn't have to be complex. JAlbum – Rebecca Chernoff Jul 30 '10 at 2:35
Well, I'd say that: hosting images is a tricky business (allowing uploads of any kind, really), and hotlinking images on other servers is a tricky business, which kinda narrows down the field for simplicity's sake. – Kzqai Jul 30 '10 at 3:02

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If you're prepared to host some of it yourself, SimpleViewer has the ability to show a Flickr photostream. The compact style should suit your needs.

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You can embed Picasa Web Albums.

From http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66969

When you embed an album in your site, the album cover will display. Viewers who click the cover image will then be taken to view the album in Picasa Web Albums. Follow these steps to embed an album:

  1. On the My Photos page, click your album.
  2. Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
  3. Copy the HTML (Ctrl-C) in the 'Paste HTML to embed in website' field.
  4. Paste the HTML (Ctrl-V) in the source code for your site.

If you want it to be dynamic (a slide show) rather than a static album cover...

You can embed a Flash slideshow of any web album. It'll be automatically updated when you make changes to your album. Follow these steps to embed a slideshow:

  1. On the My Photos page, click your album.
  2. Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
  3. Click Embed Slideshow.
  4. Choose your slideshow settings, such as image size, captions, and autoplay.
  5. Once you've chosen your settings, copy the resulting HTML code (Ctrl-C).
  6. Paste the HTML in the source code for your site (Ctrl-V).

Once the slideshow is embedded in your site, people who click your slideshow will be taken to view your album in Picasa Web Albums.

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If you want to host it yourself, Gallery is embeddable.

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Try using a CMS like Joomla. There are lots of Extensions that would allow this.

http://extensions.joomla.org/search?q=flickr

Alternatively it is also very simple to set up your own image gallery using Joomla.

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