In a message dated 11/4/03 12:56:33 AM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
<< I'd like to post jpgs of Cirque from 2003 to the group. Can antbody suggest a better hosting service than Yahoo Photo >>
By far the cheapest (and most fun) solution is to check with your ISP... you may already have several megs of free web space there that you can take advantage of (amounts vary widely... for example, I believe AOL gives you 20 megs per screen name, 140 megs total). Instead of uploading to a photo service, why not create your own web page, investing as little or as much trouble as you care to (can you envision a nice splash page with "Hetchins Pete" at the top instead of "Yahoo"?).
Several programs will take a group of digital photos and easily create a linked thumbnail page with everything in a single directory so you can upload it in one shot. (Check the menu item "file/automate/web photo gallery" in Photoshop... this is what created many of the pages at the Pacenti and Sachs websites). All that's left is to create a single splash page (this can be text only if you like) that links to the various thumbnail pages.
Here's a modest example, created over the course of a weekend or two...
http://hometown.aol.com/
I understand how many folks find hosting services like Yahoo worth using. But creating your own page can be a lot of fun, and far more versatile as well... If you want to include a story about how you came to find a particular bike or what you went thru restoring it, such things are easy to add. Personalizing a page with a bike-related background is a snap. Adding links to other sites is easy as well.
Just be sure you know when to rein yourself in... I don't think it would be too hard to begin with a modest site for "just a few of your favorite bikes" and then a few years later finding yourself with a Hetchins version of Classic Rendezvous. In fact, for a little educational fun let's ask The Man himself... Dale, how modest were CR's beginnings and what did you have in mind when you first started Classic Rendezvous?
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA