I got married in May overseas so will be receiving our photos (full res) on a disk. Will obviously be printing these (photobook etc) for ourselves but wanted to put them together into a nice online gallery for guests/friends/family.
We also got some excellent HD video of the day that I'd like people to be able to see.
My question is this - what is the best way to host and/or display this content.
I'd like the following:
1. Control over the style / transitions etc of the gallery - hosting wise the pro version of Flickr looks up to scratch but not sure there is any real control over the gallery display.
2. Full versions of images to be available (for the occasional print - we have full reproduction rights) - I suppose this means we need a lot of hosting space, if needs be I suppose we could forego this.
3. HD video display - would like this to be in the same place as the photos - am not expecting I'll be able to host this myself - any suggestions for a free HD video host with an embeddable player so that I don't need ridiculous amounts of bandwidth?
4. Ad-free (or as near as possible)
I'm not expecting this to be a free solution - is it maybe possible to use Flickr hosting and then just my own gallery front-end hotlinking those images. I have experience of jalbum but haven't used it in a while so not sure if it supports this option.
I'm by no means a web developer/expert so a simpler solution may be best but at the same time am not necessarily restricted to an of the shelf solution.
Any and all help appreciated.
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