You can import images as long as you have the disk space. We create a small thumbnail (20kb) of each image and never modify the original.
Choose the images you would like to publish on the website. Click create pages and YouDoPhoto creates default categories for the year and month of the image and menus for website navigation. The free version is limited to 100 pages.
Site builder allows you to build an individual page or the whole site to preview on localhost before deployment to the cloud platform your choice.
YouDoPhoto is a native Mac and Windows photo editor and organiser for building
Our focus at YouDoPhoto is to help you create a family photo sharing website that is easy to navigate, fast to load and simple to manage. YouDoPhoto includes a prebuilt websites which is easy to edit and publish.
Import your images and create a family albumto mark special occasions for people and places. Images can be allocated to multiple categories without creating duplicated pages. In addition tags can be used to improve navigation.
With YouDoPhoto you can privately share photos, videos and memories of your young family without exposing them and your data to Facebook or other advertisers.
YouDoPhoto imports in the parent folder and all subfolders. .
To create a new site by cloning an example site or simply use the example and delete the demonstration images. Select a local folder containing your images with the new button to import and create thumbnails.
We do not edit or modify your existing images they remain in their original format on your computer. On import we create a small thumbnail to allow fast browsing and selection of images to incorporate into the website when it is built.
YouDoPhoto creates pages, categories, albums and tags automatically to build a no code family photo sharing website.
Edit your content directly in YouDoPhoto including the insertion of images and URLs. Create menus, pages and posts. Manage categories and tags. Use modules and widgets and allocate to individual pages to personalise content and improve SEO.
Optimise your site with responsive images to improve the page load speed. News and media manager to create for responsive sizes for every viewport from mobile to large desktop..
YouDoPhoto integrates with Azure, Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub and Google Firebase. Each of these cloud providers offer a generous free tier for hosting a family photo website.
YouDoPhoto websites convert all images to the webP format which is currently the most efficient format for quality and size. The free hosting plans offered by the major cloud providers are covered here. For example each image with 4 responsive sizes equals 300kb. The Google free plan is 50GB. Therefore a family photo website can easily cover 14K images!
YouDoPhoto supports multiple websites and multiple cloud accounts therefore you can maximise the free offer from each cloud provider and create websites for specific occasions such as weddings or birthdays or a large archive of family photo albums.
YouDoPhoto integrates with node.js for single click install of each cloud API. A single domain can use any supported cloud so you can test which platform is best for your project.
Choosing a website builder can be confusing please read our guide to YouDoPhoto vs Hosted.
YouDoPhoto Includes two default templates but if you are looking for a template for a special occasion any HTML template can be used with small changes to the code.
YouDoPhoto integrates with the Algolia search engine. Algolia has a free plan so site search can be incorporated into any family photo site.
Yes it is. All of the cloud hosting providers offer a free tier which is suitable for the majority of low traffic websites. See our guide to static site web hosting to compare the features and benefits of five major cloud platforms.
YouDoPhoto is a desktop application which pre-renders your pages before uploading to the cloud. Therefore the static sites built with YouDoPhoto are 100% secure and cannot be hacked.