Photoblogging

It never seems to be simple enough to do simple things!

Blogging is a great way to keep a diary and share your goings on with friends family and the world at large. You can tell your story once, without doing a mass mail to all your pals, which is OK if they're interested, but a bit sad if they're not. With a blog, if people want to know what you're up to they can hit your blog, if not, they don't. Simple. But there's one problem. I have a digital camera and I want to "Show" what has been going on.

I know, I know, you can use Blogger's photoblogging service, but that requires me to download software that I don't particularly want to use and also to use Instant Messanger, which is banned in our offices. This means that the service is effectively useless to me.

I can see why Google are not keen on users just dumping photographs onto their blogs. The users may be stupid and decide that 32MB RAW image files is the only quality that is acceptable for their 400+ wedding photos. However, if they were to say here you go guys you have space for 10MB of image files, do with it what you like, that isn't going to rock the boat surely.

Fortunately I worked out this morning that Google actually DO let you insert images, so long as they're hosted elsewhere. What I hadn't realised is that I can actually put in HTML into these posts. So I can put in a picture using the IMG tag.

However, I have decided to dump photos onto separate sites so that the blog doesn't get bogged down when you open it.

The Ferrari Photo's are HERE