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Lightroom has facility to publish images to all my devices, desktop and pocketable. I have used it for some years but it's not 100% reliable, being a bit quirky, occasionally the very image I want has gone awol when I need it (making me look really stupid) so I tend not to use it any more.
I started using Adobe Portfolio but it's ...Messy?
Then I tried WIX, which sort of works OK, but. I don't like using online software, it's badly inhibited, no direct access to assets, to me it's like eating a meal with gloves on.
I also have my Flicker accounts but I'm not comfortable using it as an album, I only upload my images there in order to host them for publishing on websites such as here or a kit-car website I visit and post on.
Since I have resumed my personal website for eMails, it occurred to me I might be able to host my own online photo album. Many moons ago I used Freeway3 which is an HTML generator for the Mac. You create the site you want then it compiles the code you need and then all you have to do is upload it with an ftp uploader.
Lightroom can create a variety of Galleries, which are lists of thumbnails with various templates and ways of working, that generates a page which can be renamed and uploaded very easily to a website. It could even be placed on any device and opened by a browser locally.
I have downloaded a free trial of Freeway 7 which is the current offering. I am struggling a bit but I will get to grips with it. I have just succeeded in installing one album I exported from Lightroom into my Freeway 'site' and getting Freeway to run the slide show via Safari. Worked perfectly.
I know there is quite a bit of work to make it work properly and be able to go back and forth between different albums but the principle seems to be good.
This is the schematic layout:
Here is a screenshot of my album working (locally) on Safari, clicking on each of the thumbnails produces a single, larger image:
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Robert.