14 DAY TRIAL // When you need to present a product or a service through images in a few web pages, but you do not have the time to design the necessary HTML templates, you might be tempted to select a commercial ready made solution for your problem. Fortunately, free or open source alternatives exist. The simplest one is to take a free HTML template and include in it an image gallery script running on client side or server side.
But if you plan to add more products in the future, depending on your web server hosting account disk space and database availability, you could choose a content management system that will allow you to implement an image gallery as a module or an add on. For example, even Wordpress content management system is destined for blogs creation, it can be easily employed to rapidly create a website formed by a few pages and an image gallery, used to present a single product or service.
It is recommended to select a template having only a single column. You could leave the default elements such as Categories, Search, Blogroll or certain Widgets, but if you need to deactivate them, you must identify and delete their corresponding included directive in the template files. In order to edit the files that enter in the WordPress template structure, you must use the Template Editor that exists in any WordPress content management system.
There are many alternatives for implementing image galleries in WordPress with the help of the corresponding plugins. Certain plugins allows you to add image galleries in posts or in side bar, like mbox. Others plugins really automate all the image galleries creation process such as NextGEN Gallery. This plugin allows you to upload the images as zip archive and it will do the entire job of gallery creation (Flash slideshows and CSS effects are also available to configure).
The possibilities of combining an image gallery with text content in WordPress are endless, due to the existence of a high number of image management plugins. If you want to explore the image management related plugins for WordPress, as well as the integration possibilities in a product presentation website, you can have a look at Wordpress.org website.