About Flash Photo Gallery

Flash Gallery is a FREE, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.

Flash Gallery Features

• Flash Gallery is 100% FREE!
• Easy to implement in your site
• Intuitive navigation
• Cross platform - Windows/Macintosh/Linux
• Supports Latin, Cyrilic, Chinese and any other language you can think of
• Lightweight, only 11KB
• Image preloader and effects

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How To Use

Get Flash Gallery
Download and unzip Flash Gallery files using WinZip or WinRAR.

Select your images
Images should be JPGs and saved as non-progressive. It is preferably to put all images in the gallery folder.

Create thumbnails
Create thumbnails with an image editing program. Thumbnails should be at least 70x70 pixels (larger thumbnail images will be cropped). Put all the thumbnails in the gallery folder. Thumbnails should be with different names from large images.

Edit images.xml
Open the file images.xml with a text editor (Notepad, TextPad or some other text editor...). You will notice that the XML file has a special structure in order to describe the images in the gallery. All images are described with the following XML tags located between the <images> and </images> tags.

Here is a example of an actual image.
You can place as many images as you want between the <images> and </images> tags describing each image in the way shown here.

Upload the Flash Gallery
Upload the Flash Gallery to your web server using FTP or other software. You can change the name of the demo.html file to whatever you want.

Enjoy!