TP: Photo Sharing/Hosting Services

I use Zenfolio.com, I am happy with them so far.

hello, I'm having some problems with gigafiles.co.uk; I have a free account and they promised 1Gb bandwidth per month but it's been more than 3 months and the bandwidth counter keeps going up and never resets; now it reached the limit and the last photos I uploaded cannot be seen by others.
I sent them an email and the only response was a recommendation to switch to a pay account.
looks like I need a new hosting service.

I use flickr, pro member comes free with my bt package so no worries about numbers of pics. I have also tried loading to fotolibra which is more of a commercial site, but after 12 images there are costs involved.


Any one sold anything through photolibra? I have had quite a lot of interest throug Flickr, and I don't have that many images there yet!

Ianb

Edited by ianb - 06 August 2009 at 23:57

Muddin,

Glad to be useful.....What a great forum for gaining new knowledge and a challenge to producing better photos.

No other photo user forums as good..... lens data base or themes.

Ianb

I have a question about Flickr. Some people post using flickr and clicking on the photo links back to the flickr page... I would like to do this but can not figure out how. Posting the image works fine but I have yet to figure out the magic formula (ie html) which makes the image into a link. Thanks!

So like this:



The code for the above (with a space added to the beginning [ URL= and to the middle [ IMG] to make it visible)
[ URL=http://www.flickr.com/photos/26845096@N06/3805637242/sizes/m/][ IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/3805637242_3b80ed71dd_t.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Awesome! A quick note, the URL can be changed to any URL of course. Which allows me to shamelessly promote my flickr page!

Thanks a lot!

Edit - this also lets me conform to the flickr guidelines!

Edited by SDB - 12 August 2009 at 16:51

Bob,

I also use and love smugmug and like you haven't thought through from the beginning how to set up a good gallery structure. (currently it's just galleries per month and a few special events (mostly dyxum meetings and challenges)

This makes it very easy for me to navigate but totally uninteresting for visitors.

To avoid the problem you talk about (losing all the links to my dyxum posts) I have made the following plan to avoid that:
1: unlist all my current galleries (so visitors can't see them anymore)
2: build a visitor friendly gallery structure for the better shots I want to showcase there (so not every shot I post on Dyxum)
3: make a copy of the pics I want to show visitors in my "unlisted" date driven galleries
4: move these copies to the appropriate spot in the visitor galleries

In terms of future operations I would still make the first upload to my date driven gallery structure and post to Dyxum from there, and then copy/move selectively to the visitor sector as I want to show pictures there.

Comments, questions and improvement suggestions more than welcome, as I'm still designing I would like to get some input to make sure I do it right the second time