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Looking for a "Photo Blog"

  • Artikkeli

I recently acquired a digital camera so I started thinking about a photo blog... something my family out in Winnipeg could subscribe to. A colleague, who has a camera phone, suggested textamerica, which seemed quite happy to accept my registration but I didn't go through with the sign up because it seemed that they only intended camera phone users on their site, and I didn't want to mess with their system...

Can anyone recommend a good place to post digital photos that makes it easy for family to view the latest pic(s) without too much hassle? I'm not looking for long-term or hi-quality storage here, I can handle that on my own site, but I was hoping for something simple where I could hold a rotating set of 10-20 pics...

Of course, I could just build up some pages on my own web site for this purpose, but I like the simplicity of photo blogs, even being able to email the pics up to the site is a great simplification over posting them to my own site.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    TextAmerica really is the best out there for a Photoblog. No camera phone needed. Just cut down your images to less than 400-pixels wide and email them into your photo blog. Plus, they built the whole system on top of .NET.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    Ask Roy. I think he use something good for his pictures
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    Dear Duncan.

    May i suggest you Fotolog.net ? It's free if you post only 1 photo each day or quiet cheap if you want to remove this constraint.

    You can check how it looks (you can customize the colors but not the layout) in my photolog : www.fotolog.net/wirelessjunkie/.

    I also built a simple basic solution in asp.net that i use in my website that generate a table of thumbnails and link back to the original shot. You just need to specify the directory where the original files are stored.

    I'm currently upgrading the scripts but you can check out a previous version there : http://www11.brinkster.com/wirelessjunkies/corfu.aspx

    It's quite useful with web hosting companies like brinkster who offers 30mb of storage space and support for asp.net 1.1 for free :)

    Hope it helps.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    Well i just saw that you already have a similar solution on your blog. Sorry for my irrelevant tip so :(
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    I can recommend http://www.webshots.com
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    http://www.shutterfly.com is a really good site. You can store multiple albums and order pics online as well. A product from Adobe.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    I agree with using TextAmerica (www.textamerica.com). It's free and easy to use. My only complaint is that it's getting kinda slow.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    If you want to host it on your own site, try out nGallery -- it's .Net-based photo gallery software. They've got a Workspace at GDN, and a main site at http://www.ngallery.org/
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    http://www.pbase.com
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2003
    Hey Duncan!

    Thanks for the good word, Tommy!

    We're constantly improving nGallery, and that's actually on "The List" for a later release is to be able to support a hosted solution, such as a photo blog. We're not far off from that, and I was hoping to get to this in our next release.


    -Jason (jason@ngallery.org)
  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2003
    My site does this: http://www.DylanGreene.com - but I started it before ASP.NET was released. I plan on converted it to ASP.NET 2.0 once released.
  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2003
    Take a look at pbase.com as well...
  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2003
    Thanks for all this info. It's a great resource.
  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2004
    i put some pics here, it seems to be a good sight. it has several different galleries where you can post your pics.
  • Anonymous
    April 03, 2004
    Mine isn't up yet, but I'm working on it:
    http://www.my-expressions.com/
  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2004
    Try buzznet! It's free and you can upload 5 to 6 images per day. http://www.buzznet.com
  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2004
    Share digital photos online with family and friends, create your own photo album and photo blog today!