BrandonMoeller.com

Maybe you’re reading this news for the first time. Maybe you’re reading it after seeing my Web site for the first time, thanks to the 55 Christmas cards I recently mailed.

Well, don’t be a stranger. Comment below and congratulate us.

See A Lot of photos of Kim and I here.

Or, see other photos used in this year’s Christmas cards here.

My cousin’s getting married, so that means I’ve been tapped as the photographer, and my only condition was that I can use the photos on a Web site in an effort to tap into the lucrative wedding business.

By working for free. Go figure.

www.melissaandtim.com … tell me what you think.

Brandon

Well, it’s been on my to-do list for a while: Check out Jalbum, and see if I like it better than Plogger, and consider using it as my default way to show off my photos.

Well, I don’t and I won’t. Not yet, anyway.

A flying dragon dude at the
Texas Renaissance Festival 2007.

First off, you have to install a new program, and then you edit and upload the photos from there. It takes your photos from one folder, and builds a gallery in another one: Default set for My Documents folder. So you end up with a big folder that controls the style of the album, the original photos, newly made thumbnails, and all the info about the edits you make to the photos.

Then you have to upload this huge folder (About 265 files for this gallery I created that had 35 images) … maybe it will get faster when I upload more albums later? Geez, I hope so.

The Jalbum registration process was easy enough, but it seemed to take me longer to edit my photos with the clumsy built-in editor once I started building my photo gallery.

And when I was done with it all, I didn’t like ANY of the built in “skins,” so I had to go and download a better one, called FotoPlayer. That one is flash based and super nifty.

But, some of my thumbnails were altered by another skin and it’s not so obvious how to change that now.

All in all, it took a few hours to do 30 something photos from last year’s outing to the Renaissance Festival. A big time kill: When using the program to upload to my new Jalbum profile, I kept getting an error message. So I gave up, and - apparently successfully - tried two different ways to upload it to my own Web site.

But, anyway, check it out.

First, here’s the version I directly uploaded to my Web site through my FTP program:

http://www.brandonmoeller.com/Jalbum/071110%20Ren%20Fest/album/index.html

And here’s the version that was uploaded to my Web site through the Jalbum program:

http://brandonmoeller.com/071110%20Ren%20Fest/

I think they’re the same. But after all this, man I’m tired. I’ll try to dig deeper into Jalbum later.

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