My friend Elizabeth needed to get a website up for her photography, so I said I'd see what I could do. After trying to customize Gallery (PHP), which is a really good way to go in general, I figured I should look into a quick, customized solution. I'm already familiar with the CakePHP framework (and since my host has crappy support for Ruby/Rails, I didn't want to use a Rails solution), I searched around a bit and found a good tutorial on how to set up a photo gallery with CakePHP using the Flickr API.

After about an hour I had a fully-functioning site up. The next few hours were spent tweaking the layout/design (and figuring out Internet Explorer bugs). I added some more JavaScript to the final solution that updates a caption in addition to the main photo. The results can be found at esoule.com. She's also got an online store at Etsy as well if you want to buy anything.