Online Image Galleries - Many Options With or Without a Website

Many community historical societies have a desire to establish or strengthen their web presence. Cost and volunteer web design experience have both been challenges. As community education and collection sharing are typical society missions, finding ways to share collection images is often a priority goal.

There are many alternatives, and even combinations of alternatives, available to expand online image sharing activities. A society need not have a website or volunteer web design expertise to get started.

Societies with some expertise and a website may still find it advantageous to expand their current image display activities, or even to market some special images as a fundraising activity by using inexpensive third party services available online.

If any member of a community historical or genealogical society can place scanned images in a folder on their own computer, the society already has the ability to create an online image gallery. Beyond that, additional sharing and fundraising options are numerous.

For some image gallery examples, ideas, and suggestions, visit the article on Sharing Photos and Documents in Image Galleries on the Internet at LocalArchiver.com.