whoa, this is atypical
17 Jul
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
I have a moth phobia and an aversion to sewing that I think come from watching 'The Silence of the Lambs' at an impressionable age.







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24 Responses for "Thursday Thirteen #2"
Great list, nice one for TT! Mine’s up too hope you can drop by… Happy TT!
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 !
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!
Sounds like me. I can’t do photoblog because I don’t know how, don’t have enough pics, and so on.
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
I love number 5, so true!
And thanks for visiting my first 13 post!
Hehehe, sounds like quite the ordeal!
oh noooo! so sorry you went through all of that! lessons for all of us!
Wow! All of that seems like so much work! I just use Flickr.
Have a happy week!
Ha…that cracked me up. I’m taking your advice – no photoblogs. But mainly because I already have too many hobbies.
Okay, I’ll stick with words on my blog.
Thanks for stopping by!
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!
Oh Dear.
All I do is upload the occasional photo to my blog. Okay…and lots of photos to my flickr account.
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!
This was hilarious, but sadly true. Thanks for stopping by my list today!
Sadly, this is the story of MY life as well!!
Thanks for dropping by today! See you next Thursday!
Happy TT!
Sounds like me whenever my husband isn’t around to help me out! Aack!
thanks for visiting my 13’s,but hey,photoblog isn’t that bad,I have one,come and visit.
Oh my, what a headache. I’ve definitely been through some of that. Thanks for the comment!
Personal experience?
yes lol i write what i know, thanks for all the great comments guys
Oh man — what a headache!
Blogs can cause such stress sometimes, can’t they? I hope things get better soon!
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?
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