Creating a photo archive online: Would you use Flickr, WP or GoDaddy self-build?

[71M]

Creating a photo archive online: Which would you prefer to utilise: Flickr, WordPress or self-build and host (e.g GoDaddy)?

 

[HughGuessWho]

None of the above. I would go with Self Hosted Wordpress.

 

[grafxman]

I have nearly 19,000 photos and videos on flickr. I always thought wordpress was for bloggers not photo archiving.

 

[71M]

None of the above. I would go with Self Hosted Wordpress.

Thanks Hugh, that's included with GoDaddy hosting last time I used their services. Incidentally, did anyone ever try Movable Type CMS? Would that be a slicker platform than s/h WordPress?

 

[71M]

I have nearly 19,000 photos and videos on flickr. I always thought wordpress was for bloggers not photo archiving.

Yes, I find Flickr's newer Lightbox-style interface, mystery meat click/reveal menus and endless-scroll Group pools a bit annoying; I prefer an older-style, static interface - maybe I should go to PBase . Self-host maybe the one for me: I'd like easy thumbnail matrix, and fullscreen images. Equally, numerous restrictive blog themes with only moderate size image placements are a bind also, (maybe I should pay for a decent Tumblr theme).

 

[grafxman]

Actually I hate flickr's new and "improved" endless scrolling river of images. However it's very easy to get around it. You just right click on a photo you're interested in, open it in a new tab and then you have the old photostream selection available that you can easily and quickly scroll through. Everything else about it though is pretty good. It's real quick to access enlarged photos (right click and select the size you want) and the EXIF info. You can also edit the photo in the Aviary. The Aviary allows one to change the brightness, contrast, resize it, crop it, rotate it and do all kinds of stuff to the uploaded photo.

 

[HughGuessWho]

I have nearly 19,000 photos and videos on flickr. I always thought wordpress was for bloggers not photo archiving.

There are thousands of Wordpress themes available that written specifically for photographers of all kinds.

 

[71M]

Right; I need to research some. Thanks.

 

[The_Traveler]

I use Zenfolio tried the others, did not like then.

 

[KmH]

I archive on hard drives.

Image theft is rampant on the Internet, making the Internet the last place I would consider or recommend for an archive.

 

[Light Guru]

Creating a photo archive online: Which would you prefer to utilise: Flickr, WordPress or self-build and host (e.g GoDaddy)?

Do you mean archive as in just in case my computer crashes or are you looking for a place to display your images like a online portfolio?

Those are two vary different things.

For a backup archive you would be far better off with a service like crash plan or another similar online backup service.

For a online portfolio a website with your own domain name would be the best choice. Services like squarespace make it easy to make a great looking online portfolio.

If it's a online portfolio you want referring to it as a online archive is not good. A portfolio should only contain your vary best images and not every single image you have ever taken, if you include all your subpar images people will not stay around to see your best images.

 

[71M]

Creating a photo archive online: Which would you prefer to utilise: Flickr, WordPress or self-build and host (e.g GoDaddy)?

Do you mean archive as in just in case my computer crashes or are you looking for a place to display your images like a online portfolio?

Those are two vary different things.

Very good point. Yes, you're right, i'm not looking for back-up storage, or an indexing system, i'm looking to publish and display a selection.
To clarify: once a quantity of existing photos have been prepped for the web and uploaded, I'd like to regularly post a couple of new pictures a week, and continue like that indefinitely.

 

[71M]

I archive on hard drives.

Image theft is rampant on the Internet, making the Internet the last place I would consider or recommend for an archive.

I agree.

 

[71M]

I use Zenfolio tried the others, did not like then.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

 

[71M]

I'm looking at a hosted blog on wordpress.com, using the Hatch theme. Also Google Drive for some storage - i've never used this before though.