I have got to figure out what I need to do to put (a few of) my pictures on a web site. I can fumble my way through simple HTML, but I don't know how to get and manage something that will serve it.
I took over 100 pictures of the Tesla coil, and never caught someone else's flash. The big problem I had was getting things in focus -- there wasn't enough light for either auto or manual focus to lock on. I got some decent shots of dying CDs, but none of the pictures of Barney were very good.
Focus was certainly an issue. I was pretty much guessing at what looked kind-a sharp on the ground glass. I must have been lucky to get the flash, since I took a whole lot less than 100 slides.
Your ISP might provide minimal web hosting as part of the service, but for more there are a lot of web hosting companies. I use ICDsoft (http://www.icdsoft.com/) currently and am basically happy with them. $60/year for 333MB of disk and 5GB/month bandwidth. The blog is run with Blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/) software (written in Perl, open-source), but I have not been able to get any of the fancy picture plugins to work for me, so the images are just served from hand-written img tags, which works fine. This is a DIY kind of web hosting. If you want a nice friendly interface for uploading your pictures there are some services for that, which I know nothing about.
A few weeks ago, I asked my boss if I could set up a small personal home page on the company's server, and he said it would be fine as long as I didn't have very much on it. (Because of the way the drives are set up and the backups are done, having a lot of data where the web server can get it would create a headache for the backups.) I just need to get a few minutes of his time to actually set it up and show me what I have to do to put files there. I should be able to worry about paying for hosting once we decide I have too much to have on Prairie City's company server.
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Date: 2004-06-18 11:37 am (UTC)I took over 100 pictures of the Tesla coil, and never caught someone else's flash. The big problem I had was getting things in focus -- there wasn't enough light for either auto or manual focus to lock on. I got some decent shots of dying CDs, but none of the pictures of Barney were very good.
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Date: 2004-06-18 12:40 pm (UTC)Your ISP might provide minimal web hosting as part of the service, but for more there are a lot of web hosting companies. I use ICDsoft (http://www.icdsoft.com/) currently and am basically happy with them. $60/year for 333MB of disk and 5GB/month bandwidth. The blog is run with Blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/) software (written in Perl, open-source), but I have not been able to get any of the fancy picture plugins to work for me, so the images are just served from hand-written img tags, which works fine. This is a DIY kind of web hosting. If you want a nice friendly interface for uploading your pictures there are some services for that, which I know nothing about.
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Date: 2004-06-18 01:08 pm (UTC)