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I Have Defected

For quite sometime I have maintained four sites worth of my photographs, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and SmugMug. All worthwhile online applications, but in the end i had to defect to SmugMug. I think what sold me on the site was the level of customization one has in designing the galleries. The tools for organizing the pictures far exceed that of Flickr, and the usability is much more intuitive. Flickr has some nice animation, but try to figure out how to rearrange your galleries you might be there for a while.

I knew there were applications for migrating photos from one site to another, though I imagined it was going to still be a bit of a nightmare, not so. There is this little plug-in called SmuggLr works like a charm, simply install and run Firefox, and before you know it your photos from where ever else they lived are moved in full resolution over to SmugMug. Not only is it a seamless transition data wise it will keep the groups and names of all the galleries at the previous location in tact.

Now that all my photographs that live online are in one place i need t go through and reorganize and retire some, and continue to update as much as possible. This weekend should prove to have many new pictures, stay tuned!

Posted by Shannon at May 10, 2008 07:14 PM

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