Creating a Photo Gallery in Microsoft FrontPage

With a FrontPage Photo Gallery, you can easily add a professional-looking digital photo album, like the one shown in Figure 1, to your Web site.

Figure 1: A FrontPage Photo Gallery.

Think of Photo Galleries as thumbnails on caffeine. You select the photos that you want to appear in your Photo Gallery, and FrontPage generates thumbnails, lays them out nicely (in some cases with captions and descriptive text), and links the thumbnails to the full-sized photos.

First things first: How do you get your photos onto your computer? If you use a digital camera, the process is as easy as transferring the photo files from your camera's memory card to your computer's hard drive.

Film camera users must scan their photos — devices called scanners create a digital file from a photo print. If you happen to own a scanner, that's great. If not, you can take your photos to a well-stocked copy shop (most have scanning services), or you can send your film to a developer who scans the photos and sends you the digital files as well as the prints.

Digital cameras and scanners can save photo files as Web-friendly JPEGs. If your photos are saved in another graphic format, you need to convert them to JPEG in order to use them in your Web site. FrontPage converts files automatically, or you can convert the files using a separate graphics program.