Spyke Raven ([info]spykeraven) wrote,
@ 2007-07-02 02:15:00
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Current mood: hopeful

Help me LJ, you're my only hope!
I get the strangest feeling I've used that title before. But it is so apt!



By the by, for those who came late, this is where and what I've been:

Feb - Turkey

Mar - Working butt off in Singapore during my last month's notice at publishing house

Apr - Still not Galactic Ruler, but instead a traveller in South India. Saw lots and lots of coconuts, and illustrated each day with a pen and ink drawing similar to what has been posted prior.

May - Back in hometown Pune, reconnecting with family and getting long Ayurvedic massages.

June - Back in Singapore, learning how the major English language paper here works. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am now a night drone at the news desk!


Now it's July and I'm Still Not Galactic Ruler. However I am trying to push myself to sketch more, just as the fleetingglimpses site was my effort to write more. So now I need to figure out image hosting.

Wordpress and LJ don't seem to have what I think I need. Please correct me if you know better.

I could also host the stuff at gatefiction, but am afraid of the coding it would involve. See, my gatefiction site is written in basic html in notepad. The thought of typing all those img srcs is just... shudder.

What I really need is something like wordpress for images - an image-blog host or an image-blog updating engine. Like an engine that would serve a webcomic. If anyone can help me, I'll be very very grateful and promise not to use you as a character in my sketches.

Thank you kindly!



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[info]xsmoonshine
2007-07-01 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Lj has image hosting, but I think it is a paid funtion.

I haven't used photobucket in a while, but last I saw they provided img src links for each picture - just copy and paste. The images will link to photobucket by default though, but I just trim that bit off before posting. Theoretically, you can post pictures from photobucket directly to lj as well, but I have not tried out that function yet.

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[info]spykeraven
2007-07-01 06:35 pm UTC (link)
I'll try it and see how it works. Thank you!

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[info]dolimir_k
2007-07-01 06:39 pm UTC (link)
I agree. Photobucket works pretty well for posting pictures in your entries.

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[info]spykeraven
2007-07-02 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Okay, so that's two votes. :-)

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[info]transtempts
2007-07-01 06:58 pm UTC (link)
glad to hear from you, hon. sounds like you've been v. busy.

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[info]spykeraven
2007-07-02 06:08 pm UTC (link)
Yes, but in a really fun way!

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[info]transtempts
2007-07-03 04:37 pm UTC (link)
good. :)

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[info]supersam5
2007-07-01 08:39 pm UTC (link)
ummm... how about deviantart.com?

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[info]spykeraven
2007-07-02 06:09 pm UTC (link)
I have been considering that, just for the name. :-)

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[info]supersam5
2007-07-02 07:06 pm UTC (link)
aah... for some reason, I knew your reply would be something like that! :-)

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[info]nagasvoice
2007-07-01 11:24 pm UTC (link)
deviantart.com or Flickr.com might work for adding comments to your pix.

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[info]mythrandyr
2007-07-02 10:30 am UTC (link)
Hey,long time no news... sounds like you are doing well :-)

I have been using smugmug.com and it is quite nice. It is not a free site, but it has nice features if you want to host your images and share the URLs on sites like LJ.

To have a look at it, you can check out my album. I also have a referral code that will save you $5 (if you decide to join this): BKfA49gsVlYpA

Cheers

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[info]spykeraven
2007-07-02 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Thank you kindly for the link and offer. I'm probably going to stick with a free hosting service for now, but this is good to bear in mind for future use.

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[info]mythrandyr
2007-07-02 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's why I mentioned it is not a free site. I had a bad experience with the free Webshots a few years ago, which is when I switched to smugmug. This was in the days before Flickr et al.

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