These notes are a summary of what I discussed at the January 8th meeting.
Talk to me when you see me if I can be of help with any of this.
Having Your own web site
- Not free - $50 to $100 per year - with a .com domain name such as www.yourname.com
(add another $15-$20 per year for a .ca domain name - eg. www.yourname.ca)
- Your domain name is unique - the company will check it's availability for you -
online.
- You have complete control over your site's design and content.
eg. How your photos are displayed, do you want to include a blog? video? chat?
- You need to set up your entire site but there is lots of software to help you.
- There's a definite "learning curve" involved.
For a comparison of some popular web-hosting companies,
visit Web-Hosting-Reviews.ca
This is a "purely Canadian" web hosting company
Canadian Web Hosting - Canada
Photo Sharing Sites
eg. Flickr
- Most are free - some may offer more features, storage, etc. for a fee.
- Minimal setup required on your part.
- May already include a "guest comments" feature, count of visitors, count
of views per photo, etc.
- Some have many millions of users. eg. PhotoBucket claims 38 million users
- PBase.com is not free (about $23 per year for the basic amount of storage
space) but it is very popular with photographers. PBase
Wendy Boswell's (about.com)
Picks of Best Photo Sharing Sites
Google's Web Page creator is a variation on the theme...
Google Page Creator
Club Members that already have a presence on the Web
The following are links to web sites and photo galleries that club members
already have on the Web. These links are on the Galleries Page of the club
site but are repeated here for your convenience.