moving to wordpress
okay, i’ve decided to move from typepad to wordpress (hosted at dreamhost, which seems fantastic so far), and am making a few decisions. my experimental blog is here for the moment, but it’ll change. (the hardest part so far seems to be finding a domain name. yikes.)
anyhoo, the thing i’m wrestling with now is where to store pictures. kathy’s put a ton of sam’s pictures on sam’s typepad-hosted blog, but that’s part of the reason we’re moving — their options are super-limited for how you display photos. part of me thinks we should just put everything on flickr or photobucket and link from the new dreamhost site — but part of me thinks we should host all our own stuff, as there’s really no practical size limitation on dreamhost’s plans, and then use gallery or some other photo sharing server software.
anyone have thoughts?
(incidentally, i’m thinking that getting all our photo links moved over from typepad, and the photos as well, is going to be a big pain.)
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Anyway you go it's going to be aggravating.
Picasa is interesting and so is SmugMug. Write up what you decide if you end up evaluating the other ones.
I migrated from MovableType a while back. They're good about letting you import/export your data.
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Flickr is like butter compared to this. Way easier to configure albums and batch upload. The pro account there gets you unlimited uploads and storage. Downsides: it's $24.95/yr. You're locked into the look and feel of their galleries. No easy way to export your high res photos if you decide to leave the service.
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the flickr galleries are a little limiting, i'm finding -- i like the FAlbum stuff that rafael has done at rebron.org, but think i want something a little shinier.
maybe i'll have kathy just use iweb to publish to dreamhost, but that sorta sucks, too.
i'm starting to think that it'll make sense to use flickr for day-to-day photo posting, and then use something like i just put up here (http://www.chortling.org/china3/) for special albums (instead of what we have now, which is this: http://johnolilly.typepad.com/photos/17_months/index.html).
it's all a little more manual than i really want it to be, though.
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I haven't found a solution I like. Paul's gallery exported from Photoshop looks nice, but how do you permalink to one image in that group of images?
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