Photo Website Builder

What is YouDoPHOTO?

YouDoPhoto is a desktop website builder for photo websites designed to generate image galleries and upload to the cloud.

 
 

Simple Templates

Our template language is easy to follow which can be used with any HTML template. In most cases you can convert your CMS to static in a couple of hours.

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Built-in web server

Our desktop CMS includes a zero-configuration web server running on localhost. Simply select the path on your local machine to your project folder and you are ready to go.

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Node Js Integration

Automatically download the required modules to analyse your content and minify html when you publish the site to your CDN. You do not need to configure node from the command line.

Node CLI

Publish Site

Store your cloud credentials locally no need for the command line. Publish your site and upload to the cloud of your choice with a single click. Build and deploy in minutes. 

Cloud CDN
 
 
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Select a theme

YouDoPhoto includes Two example themes to use for your photo website. When you import images menus and categories are created. However at this point the website builder does not know which theme to use your content. Navigate to the themes menu in the sidebar. The first column displays to templates for the example light Gallery theme. The homepage template is a list of categories for example a list of the years covered by the gallery. The second column displays the menu used to navigate the website.

The category template is used to display the individual images within each category. In our example the homepage template is applied to the years homepage ie a list of years and also to the individual year pages to display a list of months. The category template is applied to individual menus which display a list of images i.e. September.

  • Crop and Resize with preserve aspect ratio.
  • Flip horizontal and vertically.
  • Rotate image 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
  • Save settings and apply on site build
 
 
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Build a photo website

Images have been imported, pages created, allocated to categories and menus. The theme has been selected and each template within the theme applied to the menus. Time to build the site and preview locally before publishing to the Internet.

Our site build process can build individual pages to a cloud target or preview on your local machine. Similarly you can build the whole site and preview before deploying to the cloud. Building a site takes seconds and after the build is complete click on the URLs in the list to preview a page.

  • Import 100 images in 33 seconds.
  • Smart categories, year and month.
  • Auto create menus.
  • Multimedia requirement.
Image Formats

why YouDoPHOTO IS different!

YouDoPhoto is different because it is the only application that (we are aware of) that edits, organises and publishes photographs directly to the web. 

There are some great photo editors and applications to help organise your photographs. There are also hosted platforms to allow you to build photo gallery website. However these are either desktop applications that do not build websites or hosted applications that do not edit and organise your photograph locally.

YouDoPhoto replicates the ease-of-use of of an online platform to build photo websites that give you the benefit of speed and security.

Our free website builder incorporates everything you need to create a site and deploy to the cloud including example templates. All you need to do is enter your content.

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No you do not need to learn html or markdown. YouDoPhoto includes the TinyMCE HTML editor which is the default editor for both WordPress and Joomla!. Why reinvent the wheel.

YouDoPhoto generates static pages for example this website is built in under 90 seconds. A 100 photo website can be imported from scratch and built in under 3 minutes

Content can be reorganised in exactly the same way as WordPress. Content can be published or unpublished, included into multiple categories and tags. Menus can be moved with drag-and-drop. If you change a URL a 301 is created automatically.

Yes it really is free. The free version has limited features but includes everything you need to get started, build a static site and deploy to AWS, CloudFlare, GitHub Pages, Google Firebase and Azure Static Web Apps. See the pricing page for comparison of our different versions.

YouDoPhoto supports pretty URL's or the .html extension. If you are importing from WordPress or Joomla! you can choose to use the same URL scheme as your original CMS.

Any HTML template or CMS theme can be used with YouDoPhoto. We have a simple template language and if you have a basic knowledge of HTML then any template can easily be incorporated. Allowing you to continue with your existing look and feel. Alternatively YouDoPhoto includes a selection of templates which can be repurposed very quickly.