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How to plan a Photo-Gallery web site?

Hi, I'd like some advice about how to plan a photography web site. Basically, I'd like to start out by publicly displaying my own images. Then, if the site becomes popular, I may also allow others to register an account and add their own images for sharing. In the future, I may also consider a blog about photography.

So, that said, I'd like some advice on where to start. Perhaps I should begin with simply sharing my images, then build from there - not sure if that's the right approach. I know how to register the domain name, but not too sure what type of hosting package a photography web site would require. I'm also not sure how much storage space I would need to purchase initially. I'm almost certain I can add server storage space as time goes on, but I'd like to begin with something reasonable were I can display a few hundred images and then grow from there.

Any additional advise you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

BTW, I know I can use Flickr to display my images, but I'd like to have my own web site with my own photographic genre.

Thanks for your help,
Fulano

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Gerald Connolly

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carloselfaite

As you want to start from zero I suggest you to use a pre-build website like "Joomla" (free and open source) http://www.joomla.org that has a lot of support in forums over the web and is pretty nice, it laso has a lot of extensions (payed and free), you can use it with "MorfeoShow" a pretty nice photo gallery for free. instalations rwequirements on your server coould be found in their website:
Technical Requirements
Requirements for Joomla 1.5.x
Software       Recommended       Minimum       More information
PHP*       5.2 +       4.3.10       http://www.php.net
MySQL**       4.1.x +       3.23       http://www.mysql.com
Apache***
(with mod_mysql, mod_xml,
and mod_zlib)       2.x +       1.3       http://www.apache.org
Microsoft IIS****       7       6       http://www.iis.net

more info about technical requirements here: http://www.joomla.org/technical-requirements.html.
about the space yo need you can start with a basic hosting service.
here is a video tutorial about MorfeoShow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWcv4SpNCYM

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Mr_Fulano

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Thanks very much for the help. I appreciate the advice.