There are some downsides. iWeb was a wonderful tool for creating web sites. The integration of iPhoto, iWeb, and .mac, made it real easy to put a sophisticated and complex gallery of photo albums up on the web. I will also miss the nifty mini-slideshow widgets iPhoto could produce (I have kept a couple cause I like them so much).

However it was really really slow. If you were using Internet Explorer as your browser (you really should get Safari or FireFox), or were connecting through DSL or (God forbid) dial-up, well then, you probably gave up on my family site. I apologize for that. That’s what, after a bit of research, led be to SmugMug. You have to pay for the service, but it is a very small yearly amount for the ‘standard’ level service. Sure there are free sites like Flickr out there, but your viewers have to put up with advertisements, and a not as nice interface. Plus SmugMug is really fast. If you are ever interested in using their service, I can get you five dollars off by using coupon code zUHZEirkZ6UDQ in the ‘Referred by’ field on the signup form.

SmugMug gives me unlimited photo storage, so besides now having private backups of all my pics, the public galleries contain many more pictures than before. Also if you see a photo of mine you truly like, besides downloading it for free, you can pay to have it professionally printed ($0.19 for a 4×6), you can even have it made into a mug, an apron, a ceramic tile, keychain, or a slew of other choices. Just so you know, the prices are reasonable because I’ve chosen not to recieve any proceeds from these sales.

So in closing, there have been allot of behind the scene changes on our web sites, plus I had to notch up security in response to a hacking attempt. If you find anything broken, a link not going were it is suppose to, a missing picture symbol, an out right error message, please email me and let me know so I can fix it. Thanks for reading hernandezlife.com

P.S. For the family-only galleries, the password is the same and you no longer need a userid.

Click photos to go to gallery.

Ten Of My Very Favorite Photographs

]]> http://hernandezlife.com/2008/01/31/5-bucks-off-smugmug/feed/ 3 http://hernandezlife.com/2007/10/09/measureit-a-cool-firefox-plugin/ http://hernandezlife.com/2007/10/09/measureit-a-cool-firefox-plugin/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:55:43 +0000 cowlickcliff http://www.hernandezlife.com/archive/2007/10/09/measureit-a-cool-firefox-plugin/ I’ve been doing a fair amount of HTML authoring for a while now and a tool that has proved useful over and over again is called MeasureIt. It’s a Firefox plugin (addons.mozilla.org) that allows the user to drag a rectangle across the browser window and display its dimensions in pixels.

Whenever you are beginning to lay out columns or are explaining to your users that certain elements simply won’t fit on a page, it’s helpful to give detailed dimensions to make your case.