photo galleries & guest books
Installation of user photo galleries like Coppermine Photo Gallery, 4Images Gallery, and Menalto Gallery can be done through Fantastico, or I can customize Coppermine Photo Gallery to match your existing web site as this example. The same can be done for guest book applications like the ViPER Guestbook like this example.
Photo galleries that web site visitors can upload their own photos to, typically take a lot of disk space for both the program and uploaded images and use a fair amount of server and database resources. The time it takes to administer a web site with public users should be taken into account as well when deciding on whether to install a users photo gallery.
The Guest Book that I recommend is the ViPER Guestbook. It is a high end guestbook script that is versatile, reliable, very comfortable and easy to use. Like Coppermine Photo Gallery, ViPER Guestbook can be installed in a few clicks through Fantastico, or I can customize ViPER Guestbook to match your existing web site as this example.
Guest Book that web site visitors can say hello and leave their own URL etc., typically do not take a lot of disk space for either the program or saved MySQL data. Like a photo gallery, the time it takes to administer a web site with public users should be taken into account as well when deciding on whether to install a Guest Book.