The coolest thing in thumbnails

Eep! I've been neglecting my Vox account! Let's fix that some.

This week I helped a friend investigate various programs for generating thumbnail galleries for the pictures portion of her website. There's a lot of free options out there, but most come out lacking in one regard or another...except one, that delighted us both.

If you need gallery pages, check out JAlbum. It's a well-behaved Java application, so it runs on lots of operating systems, and it creates amazingly slick pages with equally well-behaved style sheets. Slide show options, automatic flagging of new pictures, nested sub-galleries, really flexible captioning, all kinds of things are here. The program itself can be a little intimidating at first glance, but the publisher's tutorials, manual, and FAQ pages are outstanding.

I give it, er, thumbs up. :)