Adding galleries the photographs or other images to your webpages is a great way to display multiple pictures which are shown as thumbnails. When you click a thumbnail, the full-sized image appears in a pop-up window. Adding galleries is quite easy and is often a simple way to add images to articles.
There are two features of our websites that you can use to add galleries of images to your webpages. These are shown in the right-hand sidebar as Simple Image Gallery Pro and as Droppics.
We find that the Droppics method is easier to use. If you find that this option is not available on your website, please contact us and we can install it for you free of charge.
A word of caution about the number of pictures in your gallery
While galleries are super ways to display groups of images, if you add too many images to your gallery on any one particular page, you risk slowing down how quickly the page will load. Our experience tells us that if you have a gallery, it's best to have no more than 12 images in the gallery.
Another word of caution about the actual size of the images that you add to your gallery
Another factor which will affect how quickly your page will load is not only how many images you have in your gallery but also the physical size in megabytes of each image. We can show you a clever way to automatically resize your images when you upload them so that when you and your gallery to your article you can be confident that the images are already optimised for use on the website. See this helpful page for this information.