By far the best approach is to build your own website, and have a professional company do the hosting for you. Learning basic HTML isn't any more difficult than learning to strip a Sturmey hub. There is plenty of information out there on the subject from the likes of Captain Bike himself and many others. Most of the basic HTML tools for use on Windoze and Mac operating systems can be had for "free", and both domain names and server space are relatively inexpensive these days depending on just how big a web site you need. Number one advantage is you get plenty of space with none of the pop-ups and free crappy adverts that come with these photo-hosting services. I use a company http://www.simply.net to host my own site, and to arrange the setting up and legal doo-dahs of the domain name. This company offers very reasonable annual rates and very reliable servers, being run alongside ones for a lot of the London Docklands financial institutions... They appear to give the same support to the small folk as the corporate clients they also cater for. Just think you could have the domain http://www.ilovemymasi.us for a year for less than the price of a sturmey-archer three speed AM hub and you can post to your hearts content !
Bob Reid
Stonehaven
Scotland
> Wouldnt it be nice to have a dedicated photo archive 'server' on which
> to post all these great examples of fantatic bikes ? As I've cruised
> between all the links posted, and the Ebay site, I've thought this would
> be very nice.
>
> I wonder how many pictures members would post, in a given month, if it
> was easy ?
>
> All the online photo freebies I've seen have the same limitation you
> mention below Peter. (they dont want to be a hosting service - they
> want to sell photos)
>
> Rich Pinder
> Van Nuys, CA
>
> Hetchinspete wrote:
>
> >I've had about twenty inquiries about the Experto Crede and Magnum Bonum
6-Day Racer by Hetchins that I offered to the group. Only problem I'd be up
hours sending everybody jpgs, so I thought I'd put them into the Instant
Logic site into an album. Only problem is the photo quality absolutely is
the worst once loaded. No wonder the damn site is free. I've tried Yahoo,
but Yahoo sucks as well.
> >
> >Does anybody on the group have a decent photo or web hosting service
which I can load photos, and create a very basic Hetchins website for my
collection.
> >
> >Very frustrated,
> >
> >Peter Naiman
> >Boston, MA