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I love using Jekyll to generate my blog, and I host it in an S3 bucket making it extremely cheap and easy to serve.

Lately I've been wanting to revive all of my old digital photos and put them online. I'm considering using Jekyll to make an online gallery of photo albums hosted on S3 as well. This might turn into my next side-project. Has someone done something like this before?

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I made https://github.com/ggreer/jekyll-gallery-generator because I couldn't find anything. It's rough around the edges but good enough for my usage. With some tweaks to the templates and CSS, it can look nice: http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/

Nothing exactly like what you're describing, but this might help you get started: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/pull/585

I am doing the same thing but I settled on using Middleman.

Its very easy to use like Jekyll and has some awesome plugins for both S3 and CloudFront integration.

I've been working on this for the same sort of thing (not jekyll based, it's a Python script):

https://github.com/hillman/phog

I've been using it for my own purposes for a while but it needs some polishing. It's a static gallery generator that supports images and videos. It has themes and S3 uploads, with a plugin framework for anything else you might want to add on.

What's really funny is that Nettuts have a tutorial for jekyll that goes over this exact topic. You could always use this as a starting point:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/building-static-site...

Another static gallery generator (which I am the author): https://github.com/saimn/sigal/ It shares some spirit with pelican. Python, jinja2, themes (currently galleria and colorbox). The goal is to make it easy to use javascript libs like galleria.

started one this weekend, it lets you put image directories in _galleries/ and provides you with resized images. needs work yet before it's generally useful but might be a helpful start:

https://gist.github.com/schpet/5523001

Seems pretty doable if you want to run a custom plugin - probably more challenging if you are on GH Pages.

How about some older software: http://jalbum.net/en/ ?

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