Help: lots of photos --> web page
Jan. 2nd, 2010 06:34 pmThis is something I've been meaning to do for years, but put off because it's too daunting. It's not going to get any better though.
When I visit places I take photos. You hadn't noticed this, I'm sure :) And many of these are "useful" type photos e.g. various rooms of a building from different angles, and close-ups of doors/windows/looks/other details. The ones that appear in LJ posts are only a fraction. Now it seems to me they'd be more useful if I took the time to document what they are, and also, that they'd be useful to other people so it might be worth organising them and putting them on a website.
But, would they be of interest to enough people to make it worthwhile? Possibly I am the only person that spends hours searching the web trying to work out the layout of a stable/coach house complex.
And, um, I'm talking thousands of photos. Seriously. Also a pile of old postcards collected for similar reasons. So I have to find a process that makes it as easy as possible. I don't mind the editing photos and adding comments to them part, that is the fun bit. It's the getting them onto the web in a usable format that puts me off. My original thought was to use a Wiki but there's a learning curve there that I don't want to do through (see original sentence). I'm thinking a blog, properly tagged would do the job but I use LJ for posting photos so I don't know anything about the other photo/blog interfaces. Is there an easy way to upload large batches of photos (minimal clicking, dragging would be good, I can't get away from the upload time :) and turn them in a post? Or is there some other format I should be considering?
ETA I'm thinking Wordpress might do that job, now I just need a username. I don't want to use the one I already have :)
When I visit places I take photos. You hadn't noticed this, I'm sure :) And many of these are "useful" type photos e.g. various rooms of a building from different angles, and close-ups of doors/windows/looks/other details. The ones that appear in LJ posts are only a fraction. Now it seems to me they'd be more useful if I took the time to document what they are, and also, that they'd be useful to other people so it might be worth organising them and putting them on a website.
But, would they be of interest to enough people to make it worthwhile? Possibly I am the only person that spends hours searching the web trying to work out the layout of a stable/coach house complex.
And, um, I'm talking thousands of photos. Seriously. Also a pile of old postcards collected for similar reasons. So I have to find a process that makes it as easy as possible. I don't mind the editing photos and adding comments to them part, that is the fun bit. It's the getting them onto the web in a usable format that puts me off. My original thought was to use a Wiki but there's a learning curve there that I don't want to do through (see original sentence). I'm thinking a blog, properly tagged would do the job but I use LJ for posting photos so I don't know anything about the other photo/blog interfaces. Is there an easy way to upload large batches of photos (minimal clicking, dragging would be good, I can't get away from the upload time :) and turn them in a post? Or is there some other format I should be considering?
ETA I'm thinking Wordpress might do that job, now I just need a username. I don't want to use the one I already have :)
