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Thursday Thirteen #2

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Thirteen Reasons to NEVER start a photoblog…

1. You will start with something like typepad, or some other given site that offers their services, and then you will become disatisfied with how they control you..

2. Then you will buy movable type

3. Then you will realize you have no idea how to make a photoblog out of movable type..

4. Then you will pay blog moxie hundreds of dollars to make you blog templates along with the photoblog because they have a special on

5. Then your site will get hacked, and blog moxie offers to help you for THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS AN HOUR..

6. So you set out to look for FREE blogging software that has photoblog templates

7. you don’t find any

8. So you try gallery software…

9. many, many, many galleries you try

10. you upload ALL your photos so many times you run out of space on your server

11. you have to change webhosts

12. you finally find simple viewer, but want it IN YOUR BLOG, your nice free blog

13. you have a nervous breakdown installing wordpress plugins, and none of them work… you hear God laughing and you find some kid that has one line of code to add your simple viewer to your blog…. BUT… by this point.. it wasn’t worth it

Visit my damn photogallery here or just as an update, wordpress now has a gallery feature, and you can click on my galleries at the top of this page

Visit other thursday thirteeners here

update.. a friend in the comments introduced to pixelpost and my photoblog is here

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  1. I ran across this post in a search and I’ve read it twice enjoying it thoroughly both times. It’s funny and well written.

    Just wanted to say a couple of things. First of all, I have always been deathly afraid of a moth and never saw that movie because I’m also scared of scary movies…lol

    Secondly, I started blogging with typepad, just like you noted for words and photos and gave it up. Then, I applied simpleviewer to a web site for a client, not for photoblogging purposes, but other reasons and it worked fine for over a year and then with no alterations to the site it just up and quit working. Go figure.

    However, when I gave up on TypePad I went to PixelPost to photoblog and I also write with my photos because I’m wordy. I thought I’d tell you that because you may not have noticed it:-)

    Did you try PixelPost or did you just decide it wasn’t for you after what you went through on the front-end?

    1. sherriNo Gravatar on September 1st, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  2. Oh man — what a headache! :( Blogs can cause such stress sometimes, can’t they? I hope things get better soon!

    2. Angie @ Many LittleNo Gravatar on July 19th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  3. yes lol i write what i know, thanks for all the great comments guys

    3. ElaineNo Gravatar on July 18th, 2008 at 1:38 am

  4. Personal experience?

    4. MarkNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

  5. Oh my, what a headache. I’ve definitely been through some of that. Thanks for the comment!

    5. Slacking OverachieveNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  6. thanks for visiting my 13′s,but hey,photoblog isn’t that bad,I have one,come and visit. :)

    6. WillaNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

  7. Sounds like me whenever my husband isn’t around to help me out! Aack!

    7. CCNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  8. Happy TT!

    8. Jeanette (Always BeeNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

  9. Sadly, this is the story of MY life as well!! :)

    Thanks for dropping by today! See you next Thursday!

    9. Peyton's MomNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

  10. This was hilarious, but sadly true. Thanks for stopping by my list today!

    10. Audra KrellNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  11. sounds awful – I remember when I was first putting my blog together, I thought my head would explode. Sounds like your experience was far worse – thank you for the very useful cautionary tale!

    Happy TT!

    11. Kitchen Gadget GirlNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

  12. Oh Dear.

    All I do is upload the occasional photo to my blog. Okay…and lots of photos to my flickr account.

    12. CelticlibrarianNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

  13. When I stop laughing (and I’m not laughing AT you, I’m laughing NEAR you) I’ll leave an intelligent comment.

    Thx for stopping by earlier!

    :-)

    13. Marianne ArkinsNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  14. Okay, I’ll stick with words on my blog.

    Thanks for stopping by!

    14. cajunveganNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:40 am

  15. Ha…that cracked me up. I’m taking your advice – no photoblogs. But mainly because I already have too many hobbies. :)

    15. simplyamusingblogNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am

  16. Wow! All of that seems like so much work! I just use Flickr. ;) Have a happy week!

    16. ShannonNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am

  17. oh noooo! so sorry you went through all of that! lessons for all of us!

    17. christieoNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  18. Hehehe, sounds like quite the ordeal!

    18. maggies mindNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am

  19. I love number 5, so true!

    And thanks for visiting my first 13 post!

    19. Todd The GripemasterNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am

  20. thats it i’m never starting a photo blog! thanks for visiting my blog. one of me 4 year old students is named nazereth and its pretty painful so i wouldn’t go with that one

    20. jadedNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am

  21. Sounds like me. I can’t do photoblog because I don’t know how, don’t have enough pics, and so on.

    21. NadiaNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 7:23 am

  22. ROFL! I love this list! I’m glad you put in the one about the wordpress plug ins not working. I hate it when that happens! LOL!

    22. ChristineNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 7:20 am

  23. Lol, fortunately none of your problems happened to me ! I just created a photoblog (Keyhole Pictures changed the template with a new background and header and it was done !

    23. GattinaNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 5:24 am

  24. Great list, nice one for TT! Mine’s up too hope you can drop by… Happy TT!

    24. PrettyCatchNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 3:39 am

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