Putting up over 1000 images... need navigation solution

What have I gotten myself into?!

I have over 1000 images (game box covers) to upload to a website. I need some kind of navigational structure.

Obviously, writing just the name of the image and linking to the image would take up a whole page. The thing is, I want each image to appear on a webpage so that I can put ads on the page... I don't want to link the name directly to the image. But I don't want each image to have its own HTML page. Do I make sense?

In short, I need some sort of script or something that will let each image appear on a webpage with ads, without making a thousand new pages.

I know you can select an item in a dropdown box and have the image appear, but a Javascript dropdown with the name of over 1000 entries would be impractical.

I am NOT fond of Lightbox, so that is out. I would really like something I can host myself, as opposed to paying for third-party services.

What navigation solutions would you recommend for my situation?

 

Have you looked at Gallery?

It is easy to implement and customize. I haven't done much except alter the header and footer and include an Adsense block here and there.

http://www.emotiveimages.com/eigallery/

You can get Gallery free from http://gallery.menalto.com/

 

I think you do.

Let me repeat it back in a different manner and see if I have it right.
You want to display the pictures one at a time on a single page. The same page.


I don't get the

part at all. You have to link to the image somewhere in order for it to display.

Is the content of this page going to change? Would a modified "hot or not" type script serve the purpose you have in mind?

Is there an example page or site you could point to?


I guess I didn't get it after all!

 

That's exactly what I meant.

I meant I don't want to link the image name to the image, so the image appears by itself. As in, how I'm linking right here, directly to a jpg: http://www.consolecolors.com/images/wiiall.jpg

I'll check into Gallery, thanks!!

 

Insert them into a database or something, then when you select them from the database target an iframe on the image..