Comments on: Displaying Images in Photoblogs & Galleries

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:44:58 +0000

Kristarella – I noticed very few subscription options as well. That’s why I had to mention that in the previous post. It’s something that most of those sites really do need to get sorted.

Mark – I personally would just host them on my own webspace+software. If I didn’t have a website (Or feel the need for one), then I would Flickr because of it’s social capabilities and massive userbase.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:38:53 +0000

Good article Michael, do you store your photos on a dedicated image server like Photobucket or something?

By: kristarella

kristarella — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:30:33 +0000

When Pixelpost first included tags I thought I didn’t want to use them and just stuck with my categories (there weren’t that many of them). However I found an addon to easily tag all my old photos and now I love tags! Some of my photos aren’t even categorised anymore (probably not a good thing), if I think of a decent name for a default category I could put them in there. They’re all tagged though.

Muller’s site sure was different, and creative. Took me a minute to figure out how to use it!

The horizontal scroll is ok, although I suspect most couldn’t pull it off.

It would be nice to offer large, medium and thumb viewing. I don’t think my photoblog software has a system for doing that. I’ll look into it though.

For me, the examples you’ve used are more like websites than blogs. They’ve got a creative way of presenting their content, they might update regularly or they might not, but they don’t seem like sites that you’d go to everyday for something new. I couldn’t see ways to subscribe to the content. Don’t get me wrong, they’re awesome sites – that’s why I wanted to subscribe to them! Anywho, just an observation.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:32:15 +0000

Merry Christmas to you too jsanderz!

Goldfries – That gallery rocks. Plenty of thumbnails which I always like to see.

Chris – No problem.

Forrest – Google maps is a great tool. No “How To Find Us” page should be without it.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:19:09 +0000

I’m a big fan of categories, tags, and even Google maps.

You’re right; Muller’s site is great! Very strange, but incredibly unique, and pretty easy to pick up on.

By: Chris Lee

Chris Lee — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:40:07 +0000

Nice idea. Thanks for the tips! :^)

By: goldfries.

goldfries. — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:24:21 +0000

http://www.goldfries.com/inperson/mygallery/

here it is. It’s a gallery I did more than 5 years ago, modified to work inside Wordpress’ Page.

By: jsanderz

jsanderz — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:24:33 +0000

Yes,
Michael you are right it is different, it might attract more readers to the site, who knows.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Jsanderz

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:03:06 +0000

Jsanderz – It does feel less natural, but I quite liked that to be honest. I guess it’s a personal preference. I can’t think of any particular advantage to going horizontal, save for the fact that it’s quite unique.

By: jsanderz

jsanderz — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:53:22 +0000

Great tips Michael,
However, the one I am not sure about is ‘Scrolling horizontally works’, I don’t feel that it is as natural as vertical scrolling. But that is just my personal view.
Regards.