Sharing your baby photos on the web

By Abbas -
I've gotten a few questions from friends about the best way to set up a website for their own +1s so they can easily share photos/videos with family and friends.. so I thought I'd write down my thoughts here.

While there are hundreds of ways (literally) that you could go about doing this - from designing your website from scratch and hosting it yourself to customizing ready-made templates and paying a monthly fee (e.g. Babyjellybeans) - I think the easiest (and cheapest) way would to be to set up a blog.

Here's why?
  1. It's free (on sites like Blogger, Wordpress, etc.)
  2. It's easy to customize the look & feel. You can choose from lots of different templates (or search the web for others), and even change the colour scheme for the blog to match your baby colours (see post on Kuler).
  3. It's easy to add text/posts. If you can log in to your Hotmail or Gmail account and write an e-mail, you can post text.
  4. It's easy to share photos and even videos. For example, you can embed slideshows within your blog posts from your Picasa or Flickr account (slideshow below is from Picasa). For videos, you simply upload videos to YouTube (free and easy!) and then embed them into your blog posts (for example, see post on car seat safety)
  5. Did I mention it's free?

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