Check out my smugmug
I recently set up an account at smugmug to share photos with relatives and friends. There’s not much there at the moment (mainly snapshots of our daughter), but the combination of the upcoming birth of our second child and my new job provide a number of good reasons to take a lot of pictures. Over time, I expect to the galleries to grow considerably.
It took a while to search through the various photo-sharing options before I finally settled on smugmug. In the end, the feature that most sold me on the service was the ease of getting prints made from uploaded pictures. I’m often too short on time (and cash, too, at times) to be able to have prints made for the folks back home, but with smugmug I can just upload everything I think might be of interest and let them pick and choose for themselves. The unlimited storage was also a considerable perk. And, hey, if smugmug is good enough for Howard Dean, it can probably handle the enormous flood of traffic from this blog as well.
I had been planning to install Gallery for this purpose, but ended up choosing smugmug instead, mostly for the reasons described above. Gallery is still pretty attractive, but I think I’ll hold off on using it until I get a faster computer, one that I can use to run my own server (both of our current computers are of the 1997 vintage, just barely in the Pentium II class--still quite useful, but hardly server material).
If by any chance you are inclined to try out a photo-sharing service, I can heartily recommend smugmug.com. It’s ridiculously easy to use. If you do go for smugmug, be sure to tell them that “QX3HpXVETUGvw” sent you (delete the quotation marks, of course). If you do, you’ll get a discount on your account—and I on mine.
Gallery also let’s guest make prints.
Gallery also let’s guest make prints.\r
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I know, but that’s where the unlimited storage space offered by smugmug provided a distinct advantage over Gallery, which simply uses your existing space. In my case, this space is somewhat limited (a few hundred MB with my current host, which would quickly be consumed by a lot of 6+ megapixel pics and 8MB videos). By using smugmug for its capacity and reserving my host’s allocation mostly for text, I can get a lot of mileage out of both--for not much money. \r
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Sure, I’d be better off setting up my own server (with a multi-GB disk) and run the whole operation myself, but that would require better hardware and more time than I’ve got right now.
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