Juicebox-Pro is used by thousands of photographers, bloggers and web developers to build clean, responsive photo galleries. In this post we are going to showcase 3 great example websites built with Juicebox-Pro. We talked to each website creator to find out how they integrate Juicebox-Pro into their website. It’s interesting that each creator uses a different work-flow to manage their galleries.

First off is Maxwell Kruger Photography  by Maxwell Kruger, a commercial photographer based in Washington, DC. This great looking site uses wide-format images to give an immersive feel. Maxwell has created a custom theme to modify gallery icons, fonts and pre-loaders.

How do you create and manage your Juicebox Galleries?

I have separate Lightroom Collections for each gallery featured on my website. I manage these as though they are my final Juicebox galleries. Once I’m satisfied with the gallery and the order of photos, I use the Juicebox Lightroom Plugin to export the gallery using settings I’ve predefined that work well for my gallery.

How are you building the rest of the site and integrating Juicebox?

I have created a PHP backend that has one set of Juicebox files and simply changes directory where Juicebox reads photos and the config file. URL rewriting makes the URLs look nice and enables multiple galleries work with one set of Juicebox files in a very simple fashion. When I need to update a gallery, I simply update it in Lightroom, use the Lightroom Plugin to export the gallery, delete the Juicebox files except for the thumbs, images, and config files, and upload to my site. It’s painless management.

What features of Juicebox do you find especially useful?

I like how clean the interface is and it’s relatively easy to customize the theme. Updating a gallery is very easy using my Lightroom Workflow and I barely have to think of code anymore.

Any other comments or feedback?

Great product – love the simplicity, keep it up.

Next up is GalleriFinn by Finn Krogvig, a fine art photographer in Norway who specializes in abstracted atmospheric landscapes.

How do you create and manage your Juicebox Galleries?

My site is a WordPress site. I prefer to use the NextGen Gallery plugin for uploading and organizing images and galleries in the backend of WordPress. On the other hand NextGen is not the best plugin for displaying the images – so I use the Juicebox option for displaying existing NextGen galleries

How are you building the rest of the site and integrating Juicebox?

I am using the Simfo theme from Themify. This theme has built-in features for getting posts by category and displaying them in various ways and layouts. I put Juicebox galleries into posts assigned with categories that matches the images.

What features of Juicebox do you find especially useful?

Juicebox is elegant, it works really well, it is responsive and blends seamlessly into the site’s look. The galleries looks really nice on an iPhone. – and last but not least: its ability to display NextGen galleries.

Lastly we have Michael Jurick Photography from Michael Jurick, a photographer based in New York specializing in family photography. His website uses a white background to give a light, open feel. Michael is using a slider-style autoplay gallery on the home page to display featured images and a thumbnail gallery for each image category.

How do you create and manage your Juicebox Galleries?

To create new galleries, I use Juicebox Builder Pro. It’s so easy to use and intuitive.

What features of Juicebox do you find especially useful?

Saving templates, moving photos around in a gallery, easy drag-drop image / thumbnail resizing.

Any other comments?

As a photographer, I’ve always wanted to have a website that showcased my images in an elegant way, but had to be extremely fast. I’ve found it to be the most turn-key way to create, edit and manage photo galleries. It’s certainly one of the most elegant viewers – and the best part of all is that it displays lighting quick on all browsers and devices. I also love the I can customize the Juicebox galleries to my taste with minimal fuss in the coding of the pages.

Thank you Maxwell, Finn and Michael! Have you built a great website with Juicebox-Pro? If you’d like to submit your work to be featured in future posts, please let us know.

Also stay tuned for some exciting news in the next couple of weeks: we are almost ready to roll out the next version of Juicebox. Juicebox-Pro v1.3 will add some much requested features including: social sharing support, SEO support, fotomoto integration, icon fonts, increased customization options, cross-fades and more! Stay in touch via our newsletter and twitter feed below, or subscribe to our blog RSS up top.

We just pushed a new update to the WP-Juicebox WordPress plugin. WP-Juicebox is now fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress (currently v3.5.1). We’ve added support for the ‘Include Featured Image’ option in ‘Media Library’ galleries, and fixed an issue where Juicebox galleries would disable touch resizing on mobile devices, among other fixes and updates.

Grab the latest WP-Juicebox plugin here. To upgrade, get the latest version and follow the install instructions.

WP-Juicebox is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create Juicebox galleries with WordPress. Images and captions can be loaded from the WordPress Media Library, Flickr, NextGEN galleries or Picasa Web Albums.

Here’s what you get when you use the WP-Juicebox plugin to embed a gallery. In this case Juicebox is loading images from my Flickr Photostream. Click the expand button to view the gallery at full-browser size.

We also updated the Juicebox Lightroom Plugin so that the gallery title is used for the browser window title of created galleries. Please report any issues in the support forum.

Juicebox was recently featured in Mr. PC – a Japanese technology magazine (buy it here). They included a copy of Juicebox on the cover DVD and included Japanese instructions for using JuiceboxBuilder as a handy one-page cheat-sheet.

I’ve included a scan of the page below (click for full-size). Hopefully this will be useful to our Japanese users.

We are very happy to launch Showkase just in time for the holidays! Showkase lets you build a great looking HTML5 image portfolio website from scratch. Showkase is a one-time purchase web app that you install on your web server. Check out the new Showkase.net for a full list of features and demos.

Showkase sites look fresh out of the box, and are designed to be beautiful and easy to use. Showkase comes with 3 built-in website themes and 3 image viewers to choose from. Showkase sites are built with HTML5 and responsive design to work on all devices including iPads, iPhones, Android devices and desktop browsers. Showkase sites are touch device ready and look great on different sized screens.

Showkase comes with 3 powerful image viewers: Juicebox, SimpleViewer and ListViewer. These viewers provide a beautiful, responsive user interface to display your images in an easy to use manner. Easily customize your Showkase site by selecting from 3 built-in themes. Fine-tune color schemes, fonts and image sizes via the admin interface.

Should I buy the Standard version or the Pro Viewer Bundle?

Showkase comes in 2 versions: Showkase Standard and the Pro Viewer Bundle. Showkase Standard includes the Lite version of the Juicebox and SimpleViewer galleries. The Pro versions of these galleries offer advanced customization options, no branding, and unlimited images per gallery. If you purchase Showkase Standard, you have the option to purchase the Pro galleries and upgrade at a later point.

I own Juicebox-Pro or SimpleViewer-Pro. Can I use it with Showkase?

Yes. Customers who have already purchased Juicebox-Pro or SimpleViewer-Pro can purchase Showkase Standard and upgrade it to use the Pro viewer.

Check out Showkase.

We are close to launching a brand new product, and we want to give a you quick preview here.

Showkase is a web application that lets you easily build stunning image portfolio websites from scratch. Juicebox and SimpleViewer are great image gallery solutions, but they require you to build the website that contains them. Now with Showkase we offer a tool to build the entire website including the image galleries, page navigation, and additional pages.

Showkase Sites

View an example of the kind of site you can easily build with Showkase. This demo uses the included ‘Kosel’ theme and Juicebox for the image galleries.

Out of the box, Showkase comes with 3 customizable themes that offer different site layouts. Showkase also supports 3 image gallery types: Juicebox, SimpleViewer and what we are call ‘List Gallery’, which is a simple vertical scrolling list of images.  Here is another Showkase demo that uses the ‘Boma’ theme and the ‘List Gallery’. Showkase includes the ‘lite’ versions of Juicebox and SimpleViewer and can be upgraded to use the Pro versions by customers who have purchased those versions.

All Showkase sites are fully responsive, meaning that they will work on desktop, tablets and smart phones. Showkase generates light-weight, static HTML pages which means you get faster page loads than a typical database driven website (e.g. WordPress).

Showkase Admin

The Showkase Admin user interface is designed to be powerful and easy-to-use. No coding is required. Drag and drop images to have them be uploaded, resized and added to a gallery. Showkase is built specifically for image portfolio websites, and has powerful image management tools built-in.

Below is a screen grab of the Showkase gallery image panel. Easily enter image titles, captions and link URLs. Drag and drop to change image order.

Showkase is super simple to setup. No database required. Just upload the files and click the ‘Setup’ button. Showkase is a one time purchase which gives great value for money compared to hosted services which require monthly fees. Showkase is not a hosted service, which means you retain control of your files on your server. Create an unlimited number of galleries, images and pages.

Showkase will be launched in the next few weeks. Subscribe to the Juicebox mailing list or twitter feed below to be the first to know!