Photo blog of safari?

I'm just back from safari in Kenya (wonderful).

I kept a paper journal while I was there and took lots of photographs, and I
would like to create a photo blog of my experience.

Can anyone recommend a good web site for this?

I appreciate that I could use Blogger (or similar) but I was wondering if
there is anything better?

Cheers.

Bobby

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I'm just back from safari in Kenya (wonderful).

I kept a paper journal while I was there and took lots of photographs, and I
would like to create a photo blog of my experience.

Can anyone recommend a good web site for this?

I appreciate that I could use Blogger (or similar) but I was wondering if
there is anything better?

Cheers.

Bobby


Meanwhile Bobby, How about telling us where you went and your
impressions? When you finish your blog you can give us a link. Liz has
a great website with many photos and information, no doubt she will post
and give you some ideas.
Pat
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Pat Anderson

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:41:47 +0000, Bobby wrote:

I kept a paper journal while I was there and took lots of photographs, and I
would like to create a photo blog of my experience.

Can anyone recommend a good web site for this?

If you want to concentrate on the pictures, I can recommend Gallery :
http://gallery.menalto.com/

It is by far the mot functional and most simple web photo management
software out there, it is free and you can even install it on an account
with no shell access beyond file transfer.

That is what I used at http://gallery.ruwenzori.net/Kruger2004 - I did not
add text, but you can insert captions and comments at the album level and
at the photo level, so that may fit the bill as a "photo blog".

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Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:


If you want to concentrate on the pictures, I can recommend Gallery :
http://gallery.menalto.com/

It is by far the mot functional and most simple web photo management
software out there, it is free and you can even install it on an account
with no shell access beyond file transfer.

That's as may be, but after a long time claiming and acting as though the
images were downloading I got a virtually blank page in both Fresco and
Oregano 2 (no pix).

If all browser/OS accessibility matters to you, you should be aware of this.

Slainte

Liz

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Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com
Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos
"I speak of Africa and golden joys"

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:03:22 +0000, Liz wrote:

after a long time claiming and acting as though the images were
downloading I got a virtually blank page in both Fresco and Oregano 2
(no pix).

If all browser/OS accessibility matters to you, you should be aware of
this.

Thanks for the feedback.

Anything below is completely off-topic for rec.travel.africa but I'll
continue the thread anyway for whoever might be interested.

I searched though my logs and saw no trace of "Fresco" or "Oregano" in the
user agent field, but maybe they do not appear under that name. If you
look at the site logs at
http://logs.grabeuh.com/awstats/gallery.ruwenzori.net you will see that
this site gets visits from a variety of user agents, so I am surprised
that those two fail to display the pages, especially since I even
successfully displayed Gallery in text mode browsers such as Lynx or
Elinks. I'll file a bug report with the development team - if you can mail
me a screen shot I can attach to the bug report, that will be nice. I'm
particularly interested in the Oregano one : development of Fresco halted
almost five years ago and it has reportedly not changed much since then
whereas Oregano 2 looks quite up to the latest standards.

According to the logs you are the first Risc OS user to hit the site...
Congratulation on being among the last of that venerable breed !

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Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:

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I searched though my logs and saw no trace of "Fresco" or "Oregano" in the
user agent field, but maybe they do not appear under that name.
The default fakings are set for Windows and IE.
I haven't found any reason to change them.

According to the logs you are the first Risc OS user to hit the site...
Congratulation on being among the last of that venerable breed !
Not at all!
There are plenty of us left.
Some people fake Moz, NS or Opera with the RO browsers.
Fresco is also the browser used by BushInternetTV, which again can be set to
fake other browsers.

Rest replied to by email.

Slainte.

Liz

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Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com
Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos
"I speak of Africa and golden joys"

In message
"Bobby" wrote:

I'm just back from safari in Kenya (wonderful).

I kept a paper journal while I was there and took lots of photographs, and I
would like to create a photo blog of my experience.

Can anyone recommend a good web site for this?

I appreciate that I could use Blogger (or similar) but I was wondering if
there is anything better?

I don't know what you mean by better.
Blogger seems easy to use, and seems to output XHTML strict (maybe the bloke
whose site I checked out tweaks the site, but it claims to be generated by
Blogger: surely he'd have put in a 'rider' if he'd tweaked it), so is
totally accessible.

Can't say fairer than that.

(On closer inspection, I see he used a particular blogger template.
*Maybe* they don't all validate?)

Slainte

Liz

--
Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com
Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos
"I speak of Africa and golden joys"

I don't know what you mean by better.

Blogger is a bit of a pain when it comes to photos (I know that you can use
Hello or Flickr but neither is particularly good for photo transfer. Who
wrote Hello? The interface is awful.)

Meanwhile Bobby, How about telling us where you went and your
impressions?

Lots of places Pat. Samburu, Lake Naivasha, Treetops and Masai Mara).
Wonderful. Including a balloon safari at Mara. Then a week at the Indian
Ocean Hotel (Paradise). We got some great photos.

Both my wife and I wrote a journal which we would now like to blog for
family and friends and others who may be interested). My wife was more into
the animal side of things than me (and her journal is much more detailed
than mine). I have more comments about Kenya and Kenyans.

Cheers.

Bobby

In message , Bobby
writes
Meanwhile Bobby, How about telling us where you went and your
impressions?

Lots of places Pat. Samburu, Lake Naivasha, Treetops and Masai Mara).
Wonderful. Including a balloon safari at Mara. Then a week at the Indian
Ocean Hotel (Paradise). We got some great photos.

Both my wife and I wrote a journal which we would now like to blog for
family and friends and others who may be interested). My wife was more into
the animal side of things than me (and her journal is much more detailed
than mine). I have more comments about Kenya and Kenyans.

Cheers.

Bobby


Sounds great Bobby.
I wrote my reply to you Saturday 12th am but we had no Internet
connection from 11am Saturday until Sunday 7.30 am, due to a BT problem
with the ADSL connection.
I know all the places mentioned but have never stayed at the Indian
Ocean hotel. I spoke to one of the coast hotel managers before it
opened and he suggested it would be a place I should stay at.
Glad you enjoyed your safari, Kenya has a lot to offer and it`s a
lovely country.
Pat
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Pat Anderson