Image gallery help

[zchrykng]

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. My friend and I are working on a website for his freelancing design business, and we are trying to figure out how to create a dynamic image gallery for his portfolio page.

An example of what we are trying to do is http://www.jthreeconcepts.com/#. Honestly I taught myself HTML and CSS over the last couple of weeks, and that level is above my limited understanding.

Our thought was that we would have the images display in chronological order, but then also have the ability to filter the items to just one type of work, like Vector art or Icons. I feel fairly able to format the page/images once I have them, but dynamic filtering and chronological sorting are a different matter.

Any help would be great.

Zach

[misc_gifs]

i just registered this account to ask pretty much the same question.
in for answers o.O

probably php and java script combo right?

[djr33]

Javascript interacts with the user and makes the page fancy. It can also do limited sorting but not in any particularly advanced way. If you want to make a list (an array) in Javascript, that may be the simplest answer. But for anything more complicated you'll probably want to use a serverside language like PHP and a database to store information about the images. The shortcut is to skip all of that and make a manually-maintained embedded-in-the-script Javascript "database" (the list I mentioned).

[zchrykng]

Currently I am working on getting php to work for my application. I will be using javascript to pretty it up later. I got some help for the php here (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63109).