Here’s a guest blog post about online wedding photo galleries from our friends over at A4DeskPro, who offer a really cool tool for creating your own wedding websites and photo galleries
When a couple get married, they will hire wedding photographers and other photography professionals to take photos on the wedding day. Most people agree that it is essential to share the most memorable moments with your families and friends, such as exchanging rings with the partner, the kiss of the bride and grooms, how the couples are played in wedding games section, etc. In addition to capturing the moments on wedding days, it is also common to show the wedding portraits, photos of the couples growing up, how to propose marriage as well as vacation and honeymoon snaps as they are also the key components to good memory.
Photo sharing is the process of transferring digital photos online, hence enabling users to share photos publicly for Internet users to view. This functionality is offered by both the website and application like wedding photo gallery program to upload and display photos. But what is the best option to share your wedding photos via the Internet? Send the photos as email attachments to the recipients? The attachment sizes are usually limited to 10mb, so is it enough for sending a large amount of wedding photos? Absolutely not. How about using the online photo sharing sites? Or using ready-made photo gallery templates for your website?
Online photo sharing websites such as Photobucket, Snapfish and Flickr are the prime examples of image hosting and sharing. In order to share photos online, the first step is to register an account, followed by clicking the image to upload, and then the images can be accessed by anyone on the Internet.
However, once you have published your images to the photo sharing websites, you’ve little control over your photos. For instance, your wedding photos will be removed without prior notice if the photo itself doesn’t follow the rules of the site, and even worse, all photos will be gone once the website is closed down or the subscription expires. More than that, there is a limit to the number of photos you can have, plus the ads on some free account are very annoying. Another restriction is the incapability of altering the way of how the photos are displayed. Usually the photo sharing websites force you to use the same gallery with identical look and feel, which is not very appropriate for those who would like to have a nice photo frame to display fabulous wedding photos.
Considering the disadvantages of using email attachment and photo sharing websites, photo gallery program seems a great way to go since the gallery can be hosted anywhere, and there is no limit on the number of images uploaded. Many wedding gallery programs are now available in the market for you to choose from. For example, A4Desk Flash photo gallery program is an easy-to-use photo gallery builder for your websites. It supports major image formats including JPG, JPEG, GIF and BMP. Extremely 
easy to use and no HTML knowledge is required! The photo gallery program features 12 layout templates, ranging from the simpliest thumbnail gallery to the sophisticated flash slideshow template, with the whole folder hierarchy for user navigation. It allows users to add rich-text descriptions to your photos using HTML tags or simply plain text, resize the gallery to a more web-friendly dimension and insert wonderful background music to deliver rich multimedia experiences. You can preview the photo gallery embedded inside the web browser instantly to see how it looks like, then upload files to the website using the built-in FTP tool for people to view your digital photos online. Or you can burn the gallery into a CD for physical distribution.
Apart from the wedding gallery program, there are also other software which is helpful for your wedding plan:
* My Wedding Workbook is an online wedding software, it lets couples store and manage all their wedding details online easily.
* A4DeskPro website builder features a number of flash templates with stunning animation effect, a perfect tool for you to build a wedding website.
* A4Desk Flash Video Player can play the video clip of the wedding day, showing the highlights and the best of your wedding day. It is an ideal way to refresh your memory all the time.
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