My goal is to create a website for a client that needs the site to be heavily based as image galleries.
I am making the site through Wordpress so the client can upload the pictures through the friendly wordpress admin panel and then the site will display a parent image for the gallery and several thumbnails (scrolling with Jquery).
My question is for advice on good ways to resize the images as thumbnails. Currently I have some "hack-ish" code that simply changes the image dimensions, but as far as I know this doesn't reduce loading time and is quite inefficient.
Any ides on how to do it better? Possibly by using PHP GD? Thanks!