Comments on: Build a photo gallery for your blog [Tuesday Homework]

By: gisnap

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By: Tac

Tac — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:24:59 +0000

Josh,
That’s just what professional copywriters and journalist have been saying about blogging.

I agree that there are times where professional content is the best choice. But I will always argue (as I have for the last 4 years) that personal content, especially when it’s imperfect, is more engaging to your customer.

By: Tac

Tac — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:24:00 +0000

Josh,
That’s just what professional copywriters and journalist have been saying about blogging.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:38 +0000

I was hoping to see a review of some great wordpress plugins for image galleries. There are some awesome ones that pull you flickr photos (or those from other feeds) right through, and are completely customizable.

I liked your post, and think it is great advice in regard to a personal blog/life stream environment, but have to disagree completely in regard to using your camera phone pics as content on a professional blog.

If it’s not professional, it shows. I would never recommend a client use their low-quality camera phone pics as content on their professional blog unless it related to their business. Even then, I’d recommend they upgrade their phones to something with at leat 5-10MP. iPhones take very low-quality pictures.

Nothing looks better on a professional blog than photos from a trained, experienced photographer.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:00 +0000

Nothing looks better on a professional blog than photos from a trained, experienced photographer.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:07:31 +0000

hehe that’s okay! Flickr is what I’m using too! Why spend the time to put together a gallery when Flickr has everything right there? Not to mention being able to run it through something like friendfeed. Now that’s cool!

Sarah’s plugin advice sounds like somethign to check out too…..

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:07:00 +0000

Sarah’s plugin advice sounds like somethign to check out too…..

By: Tac

Tac — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:59:02 +0000

Sorry to disappoint Dave. I’m not cool enough to hang with design guys so the closest I have to an actual gallery is my flickr page

Sarah, you’d be surprised what you can do with a camera phone, especially for a blog.

That is a cool plugin. I’ve also really been digging the Zemanta plugin (I’m using the browser plugin currently) and it even suggests photo’s for you based on keywords.

By: Tac

Tac — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Sorry to disappoint Dave. I’m not cool enough to hang with design guys so the closest I have to an actual gallery is my flickr page

Sarah, you’d be surprised what you can do with a camera phone, especially for a blog.

That is a cool plugin. I’ve also really been digging the Zemanta plugin (I’m using the browser plugin currently) and it even suggests photo’s for you based on keywords.

By: Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:49 +0000

I’m effectively camera-less at the moment (the family camera accidentally got busted on a recent backpacking trip, and I wouldn’t inflict the awful pics from my phone on anyone) but I’m digging the Photo Dropper plugin for WordPress.

It has a “Show only photos that can be used commercially” setting that deals with the Creative Commons question you raised—I use it just to be safe. But it’s also handy to be able to search and embed all from the post editor screen.

Hopefully will be replacing the camera within the next week or so, though!