Show off your work – Photoblog tools

The easiest way to put your photography online is to start your own photoblog. Photoblogs are easy to update and to maintain. Back in 2003 I felt the urge to let the world see my photos and started a very simple photoblog that soon became very popular and had many visitors from around the world. It was hosted at Splinder.com, the Italian version of Motime.com.

Last year I moved to a more sophisticated service, MyExpressions.com where I have my color photoblog (photo)blogging sil. For $29.95 a year, MyExpressions offers a neat photoblogging system, 100mb of space and a lot of customizable templates. Furthermore, each account allows up to 5 users and 3 blog pages allowing you to have 3 completely separate blogs managed by up to 5 users. The MyExpressions community is a fast growing one and there are plans for an even more sophisticated version of the service in the near future.
If you have your own site you could implement a photoblog using one of the most famous free photoblog applications around: Pixelpost. It’s easy to install and to maitain and offers many useful add-ons to enrich your visitors’ visual experience. I’m using it for my black and white photoblog A C H R O M A T I C.

Another free application I would consider is PhotoStand. I’ve seen many photoblogs powered by it and from what I’ve seen it does look quite nice.

Of course there are a lot more services and/or applications you could use for your photoblog. Here is a very limited list. Some are totally free to use whether others may ask for a yearly subscription or offer also a limited free account.

• Aminus3 – Free.
• Birch – Free. A perl script that run on Apache servers.
• Shutterchance – Offers a free limited account and a Premium one.
• Blipfoto – Free. Only requirement: photos uploaded must have been taken on the same day.

Next week I’ll write about tools for setting up image galleries on your own website.




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