ashapiro Posted December 19, 2009 Share #1 Posted December 19, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm thinking of starting a blog with some of my photographs. And I have an IMac running Tiger. Does anyone in the Forum have a recommendation regarding the best value in such software. I see that Pixelpost is open source software, but I have no idea of how easy (and/or powerful?) it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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falkk Posted December 20, 2009 Share #2 Posted December 20, 2009 hi ashapiro, it all comes down to usability... and beauty... and versatility and what not. i have seen beautiful examples from jalbum and bananalbum Customize your photo album with skins it's customable and beautiful. i did not find it extremly easy to use - i think the user-interface is a bit odd. but it produces very beautiful online-slideshows. since you are using apple, why not using iweb? it's a bit restricted in it's capabilities, but as long as you do not care for the coding and as long as you stick to the easy user-interface, i guess it is a great tool. - and it's free, isn't it? i think, one of our colleagues here is using iweb: J a a p V e r h o e v e n | f o t o g r a f i e and there is the built-in web tool from Lightroom. i have downloaded the free version of Lightroom 3 Beta, it is a bit limited, but and i guess i will continue using it for simple presentations: German Tour - Autumn 2009 i'd recommend you have a look into iweb. simple and just nice... i am using iweb for my stuff. -until i come across something more easy... falk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashapiro Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted December 20, 2009 Hi Falk, Thanks for the information; I wasn't aware of Iweb, but I'll certainly look into it now. Arthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericperlberg Posted December 20, 2009 Share #4 Posted December 20, 2009 I'm thinking of starting a blog with some of my photographs. And I have an IMac running Tiger. Does anyone in the Forum have a recommendation regarding the best value in such software. I see that Pixelpost is open source software, but I have no idea of how easy (and/or powerful?) it is. I'm not sure, are you asking about blogging software to post images sequentially in a blog format or are you looking for gallery software to display your images on your web site? The cheapest blogging software are the free online blogging software which are very customisable with lots and lots of tuturials etc. Certainly Wordpress is really popular and there are many many free skins/themes that you can install very easily once you've done it once. Also blogger. There are others. The nice thing about the online services is that you don't have to maintain the blog, fight spam, upgrade your software, etc. As the other poster said, lightroom has some basic flash and html gallerys built in. SlideShowPro is $35 slide show plugin for Lightroom that is extremely powerful, not hard to use and produces sophisticated flash slideshows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhabedi Posted December 20, 2009 Share #5 Posted December 20, 2009 The cheapest blogging software are the free online blogging software which are very customisable with lots and lots of tuturials etc. Certainly Wordpress is really popular and there are many many free skins/themes that you can install very easily once you've done it once. Also blogger. There are others. The nice thing about the online services is that you don't have to maintain the blog, fight spam, upgrade your software, etc. I agree. I have several web servers of my own and I write software professionally, but for my photography blog (see signature) I simply used one of the existing free blog services. I couldn't find a convincing reason to spend more time or money on this... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericperlberg Posted December 21, 2009 Share #6 Posted December 21, 2009 I should add that its possible to get your own domain name (http://www.yournameforyoursite.com) and redirect it so that goes to the blogging sites I mention above. Not sure about costs, it's either free or an inexpensive add on. Not hard to do, easier than baking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkk Posted December 21, 2009 Share #7 Posted December 21, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) i am using wordpress as a main text-blog environment. but i find it not so suitable for photo-blogging... do you have any good photo-blogging-templates for wordpress?? for photos, mixed with text, or without text at all and a plain background with no disturbing features, i am using iWeb... both allow me to use my own website. i just upload them. falk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fransd Posted December 21, 2009 Share #8 Posted December 21, 2009 I think we are back to the beginning of this thread: Pixelpost is one of the best photo blogging apps! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
h00ligan Posted December 22, 2009 Share #9 Posted December 22, 2009 I'd actually vote against iweb/mobile me - it has VERY limited security options - I'd rather use flickr and just integrate it with whatever blog / cms - not very difficult. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 22, 2009 Share #10 Posted December 22, 2009 i am using wordpress as a main text-blog environment. but i find it not so suitable for photo-blogging... do you have any good photo-blogging-templates for wordpress?? for photos, mixed with text, or without text at all and a plain background with no disturbing features, i am using iWeb... I don't know if this is the sort of thing you are looking for, but I used Wordpress for this project... Snaps from the North � Week 27: Tabley House and traction engines The template is one of the standard ones. I hosted everything on my own website rather than use an account at Wordpress. All the photographs were in their own directory on the server and I then linked to them when writing the Blog pages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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