Introducing photos
I’ve been in Tel Aviv for almost a week now, and will be here for 9 more. I’ll write about what I’ve done this week when I get a bit more free time, I need to organize my thoughts a bit more. Anyway, I’ve been taking a lot of pictures and I wanted a place to share them so I spent a couple of hours adding a photos section to this blog.
I did a bit of research on what photo-sharing tool to use. Notable options where various photo-blogging tools, Picasa, and Flickr. Photo-blogging tools were unsatisfactory because each image is uploaded as it’s own post, and that serves a much more artsy purpose than I’m looking for; I want to be able to bulk upload photos. Picasa seemed pretty cool but there’s a fixed disk space quota that I’ll most likely exceed very quickly, and I don’t want to have to pay for the service. So I rested on Flickr. Flickr so far has been pretty cool; there’s a 100Mb a month quota, which I’ve already exceeded for May, but you get effectively unlimited space if you’re patient.
So I uploaded a bunch of pictures and now I was looking for a good way to add them to akrish.net. I ran across this wordpress plugin that pretty much served exactly the purpose that I wanted. I installed the plugin, ran into a bunch of difficulties that took way to long to fix, and eventually got the plugin running. Then I updated my wordpress sidebar so that you can get to my albums from any of the pages on my blog. Since I ran into a couple of problems, getting this to work made me pretty happy.
Long story short, links to my albums are on the right. There’s only one right now and it contains some of the pictures of my trip to Israel, including a tour of Jerusalem and some of Tel Aviv. As I mentioned, I’m over my quota for the month so more pictures will be up in June.
By the way, let me know if there are any bugs as I did have to do some stuff by myself.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Hey – nice blog!