Blogger + Lightbox2 + jQuery + Picasa Web Albums API + FotoMoto = http://www.alex-kunz.com
In the past couple of days and weeks, as I've been sharing photos on Google+, I've removed some of the pages, information and functionality from this blog to my new website above. This blog will remain the channel for my photo tech and philosophy posts, I will eventually move it so it's a subdomain of the new domain.
The new website is still a work in progress and probably requires quite some more attention, especially design-wise, but I'm quite happy with the result so far. Feedback is welcome, of course.
What made me choose the combination of these free tools is not the fact that it is free, but that they fit me best. Long-time readers of my blog know that I've been looking for a good solution to present a portfolio and offer prints for quite a long time. With the combination of the tools I listed above, I have an easy to maintain site (I only have basic HTML knowledge and don't see myself hiring a programmer/designer at the moment:-) with an excellent WYSIWYG editor, the least redundancy (I share images on Google+ and use these very images for the portfolio pages and the "Recent" blog section), and a lot of freedom to customize easily.
very nice page design Alex! but when I click the photo, it does not open in lightbox, just give me the download option.
ReplyDeleteThat's odd, Pavol. I tried it with IE9, FF6 and Chrome 13/14 and it works just as expected. Which browser do you use? Are there any additional security features enabled?
ReplyDeleteI tried it in office with Firefox 6 and Chrome 13. Now I am trying Chrome 13 at home and lightbox works fine. There has to be some strange software policy set up in our office. Sorry for the unreasonably warning, Alex.
ReplyDeleteNo problem Pavol, I'm thankful for your comment!
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