Review: Using Blogs to Share your Travel Photos

Goodo Hugh, we'll look forward to sharing your adventures.

Cheers Mick

Hi Hugh,

I tend to do one blog per trip, unless I have something particular interesting to write about then I may do a single blog on it.

This for me minimises the amount of blogs I have to manage, and makes it easier for others to find any info about certain trips.

It also depends on who you are writing the blog for, some people like to read about others trips in a couple of minutes and some prefer to read them over morning tea etc. and over a longer time period.

I've got blogs on this site dating back to 2007 and still have only 12 I think which is about two too many. If the site owners facilitated the segregation of blogs into chapters/days then I may be inclined to use that function if it was made available.

Cheers
Alan

Using Blogspot is also an option.

A lot greater choices for layout and details. Have a look at mine here Gone Bush in a Bushtracker and you will get an idea.

Hugh,

The easiest way of all is the way we do it. Simply write your daily info in email and send it to blogs@exploroz.com - provided you are using the same email account as your members profile when you send it, the system will automatically publish it with any attached photos. It will be set for the day/date you send the email. This is by far the easiest way to use it and even if you are out of service your device will just keep it till you get service again and will auto upload/update your blogs.

You can test it any time you like and delete the entry.

I send our from my smartphone, so I take photos with the phone all day and then attach/share them via email directly to blogs. The subject of the email will become the blog title, date will come from sent date, text as you type it in the email and attachments will become photos. Easy peasy.

David

Hullo Hugh

This is obviously a personal view :-)

I prefer reading blogs that are based on reporting short segments, each as a separate blog, rather than one continuous blog, added to from time to time.

Why? Well after a while the blog just gets too big, particularly with many photos, for me to easily down load it on to my tablet while on the road, often with a potentially slow connection and a download limit. Even at home, I have to try to remember where I got up to last time and find myself either reading stuff again or missing out a section.

So for example, Yachties excellent blog. He has set it out well, good photos, plenty of useful observations, etc but it is now huge! I read it for a while but then the hassle began to exceed the gain for me. But clearly for others, it is till popular, given the 13 000+ views.

Mick O OTOH, posts in segments, as do others - eg Heather MG. When I want to follow something up at a later date, I just go to his/her home page, select the trip I am interested in and look at the particular entries I need. Easy :-)

Cheers
Andrew