14 DAY TRIAL // The commonest method to present images over the Internet is provided by the implementation of one or more image galleries into your website. Many types of scripts that allow you to create image galleries are available for free download. They are built based on various server side or client side programming languages, such as PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, Flash, Javascript.
These image galleries provide the possibility to present images in automatic slideshows with various images transition effects. Flash based image albums show a great interest both from developer and user point of view. They usually do not require programming knowledge for installation and setup.
Art Flash Gallery is a free Flash image gallery, lightweigth (the .swf file has only 23 KB) and easy to setup and customize through a XML file. It can be integrated in any website layout due to the existence of multiple appearance possibilities at setup. Art Flash Gallery allows you to use different transition effects on the images, slideshows, sound effects and more. The distribution archive contains a demo image gallery that could be customized to suit your needs.
To define your own image galleries, first you must create one or more instances of the SWF object into your web pages where the gallery will be displayed. The images appearance and gallery behavior is specified into the XML file. As a consequence, in the setup area you can define various directives like thumbnail scroll speed, slideshow delay, thumbnail dimensions, images transition effects and so on. The detailed description of gallery setup parameters can be found in the manual existing in the distribution archive.
Practically, you can control any aspect related to the gallery appearance and functionality through the external XML file, which provides enough flexibility in gallery administration. If you want to test the performance of this Flash image gallery, it can be downloaded from here.