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Post by Sydney on Sept 10, 2015 2:28:11 GMT
I would like to create an online gallery of my photos and have started investigating website builders such as Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, etc. They all claim to be fairly intuitive and easy to get started with as there is no coding involved. I have perused various sites created with some of the templates they provide and I have to say some of them look very polished. I would like to perform a bit of due diligence before I get started with any one particular product though. Does anyone have experience with any of these (or other) website builders that you would be able to share your thoughts and experiences about? Thanks in advance  |
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Post by Tpgettys on Sept 10, 2015 3:52:47 GMT
I am sorry to say I can not help out here, but I am keenly interested to hear what others have to say!
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Post by hummie on Sept 10, 2015 19:35:03 GMT
If it were me, I would use Flickr. You get a lot of free space and you get the benefit of the social part in others commenting on your photos. You can embed your photo stream or an album on the site you create.
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Post by Madame on Sept 11, 2015 11:39:01 GMT
Yes, I use Flicr too. I find it very versatile, you can deside which pictures are public and which will be private. But that was perhaps not what you had in mind? And there is 500px.com I think there's a lot of photographers using their service. |
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Post by Sydney on Sept 11, 2015 20:24:24 GMT
Thanks hummie and Marianne, I might look more closely into Flickr as an option.
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Post by JimD on Sept 12, 2015 0:52:45 GMT
You could check out Leo LaPorte's "Techguylabs" site. He also has a live call-in tech oriented radio talk show every Sat. and Sun. from 11:00AM - 2:00PM (Pacific time). Here in Ca. it's on KFI AM radio, but you can also listen to it on your computer. He's very knowledgeable and patiently answers callers' questions about computers, laptops, tablets, cell phones, TV's, cameras, etc.; pretty much anything that has a computer chip in it. I remember him answering a question about Squarespace and Wordpress blog options last week, and he keeps transcripts of every radio show on his techguylabs blog, hereI use Photobucket and Flickr to "store" many photos as a back-up, and even tried 500px a year or two ago, but 500px seems to be more for professional photographers so I seldom use it. |
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Post by Sydney on Sept 12, 2015 1:51:19 GMT
Cheers Jim, I really appreciate your suggestion and the link to the blog! I will definitely try to catch his program as well - sounds like he is very cluey on all things digital.
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Post by JimD on Sept 12, 2015 7:31:10 GMT
Cheers Jim, I really appreciate your suggestion and the link to the blog! I will definitely try to catch his program as well - sounds like he is very cluey on all things digital. My pleasure, Sydney. Yes, Leo really knows his tech stuff and has been on TV and radio for about 20 years I believe. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 18:39:07 GMT
Another option is something that I have been using for over five years now, jAlbum. ( jalbum.net/en/ ) I have been working on a family pictures website that contains over 40 years of my and my mother-in-law's pictures, and pictures from my own family going back 80 years. I have almost 12,000 images here, in two top level family groups. That will expand to three shortly, friends of my in-laws who lived across the street, traveled, went to the same church, and did other stuff together with the in-laws. They gave me over 3,000 of their slides, as there are no children left to give them to... These go back over 60 years, and include lots of images of my wife, some even of me, and our kids. I've already seen some images of me, my wife (a couple years before we married), in-laws, and some of our friends on a church camping trip, which I barely remember :-) I'm working my way through scanning and editing them, and expect to take six months or more. It took 11 months to do my mother-in-law's 3,800 mostly Kodachrome slides, but I hadn't retired yet when working on them. I'm retired now and have more 'free' time. I can send a link by private email if anyone one is interested, but I don't like posting it in public places. Al |
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Post by Sydney on Sept 14, 2015 7:00:21 GMT
Cheers Al, I will have to check it out. Sounds like this project will be keeping you off the streets for awhile!
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