Photo gallery editors – are you up for the challenge?
Response to Robert Niles’ ‘Which is the best free photo gallery editor?’ – WEEK 7
After reading this article I became inspired and had a go at uploading a gallery onto the web.
As I already had a copy of Picasa and an account with Google (which owns Picasa), I decided to use this program to produce my gallery.
While this process wasn’t quite as easy as the article seemed to imply, I didn’t find myself getting as frustrated as I have with other applications and tasks, such as the process of embedding a Soundslide into a blog post (which ended with only a temporary result).
As the instructions in Niles’ article referred to the newest version of Picasa (Picasa 3), I first had to download the new verison.
I then set about uploading my photos onto the web, which took only a minute or two. (Although I did have only 10 photos and I imagine that with a slower connection and a bigger photo album this process would become quite arduous.)
From there it was a matter of finding the embed code (located under ‘Link to this album’, then ‘Embed slideshow’ as I found after a few minutes), and pasting this into my blog.
Below are the links for a number of photo gallery sites.
• http://picasaweb.google.com
• http://www.picturetrail.com/
• http://www.bubbleshare.com/
• http://www.slideflickr.com/
• http://gallery.menalto.com/
• http://www.slide.com
• http://photobucket.com
• http://www.viewbook.com/
