Looking for ideas to spruce up your website? Here are a few options to add photos and videos using slideshow and lightbox-style presentations. For videos, thumbnails can launch your videos hosted on your own server or on external sites like YouTube, Facebook, or Metacafe. Photos can be displayed as a gallery with pop-out presentations and slideshow transitions or as an autoplay slideshow with thumbnails. Here’s a few sample galleries along with the name of the rendering engine or program used.

The Piecemaker 2
flash gallery display built on The Piecemaker 2 engine. Able to mix photos with video.


Shadowbox
shadowbox display; can present a series of video, photos, or even mix different types as well as sizes of multimedia.


WOW Slider
photo slider with left-to-right sliding blinds transition.


Visual Lightbox
photo gallery with lightbox effect, image title shifts up, slideshow enabled, hover-over pauses transition.


Visual Slideshow
slideshow with “Ken Burns” transition, thumbnails displayed below main frame, navigation controls appear upon hover-over.


cu3ox1
flash gallery with fancy transition created with cu3ox1 engine