In the beginning, I was uploading the photos to my personal website. It took a lot of fiddling to get the pictures sized and anchored on my web page. In addition, it was rapidly filling the alloted webspace on the server. I explored around and found out there was a better way.....
Online photo albums!
These are sites where you can upload your digital photos or scanned prints for online storage. By storing the images on someone else's server, you free up your resources and allow others to view your albums. In my search for albums, I found that most sites offer the same services---free online storage and free ePostcards. Some of the sites have sweetened the pot to attract business. I've seen some places that allow you to mail in your rolls of film for developing for a fee. They will put those pictures up on the web site for you and mail back the prints or put them on a CD. All sites will sell you prints of the images you upload. Some of them have introductory offers such as the first 50 pictures are free. Most sites sell you items where they have put your picture on it---such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, plates, or posters. This is how they make money. Most sites allow you to upload your pictures and not make a purchase.
I think online albums are useful. Aside from saving you disk space, it allow you to share your photos with family and frinds. A lot of sites give you the option of allowing the photos to be viewed only by the people you choose. This is a nice privacy feature and anti-piracy tactic.
The following is a list of online photo sites I found on the internet. All of them have the basic storage features, so I'll only outline some of the extra services they provide.
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