Seems like a simple request, right? Well it wasn't an easy choice for me because I had previously created a ASP web album and family web site that had some unique features. Single or groups of pictures could be tagged. Pictures could be searched based on people in the picture, tag and date range. I created a VB6 app to upload and label the pictures which was converted to C#. It worked fairly well, but I eventually stopped maintaining the web site. A few years ago I tried to revive it from the dead, but it was past it's prime. My first thought was to just do something similar in ASP.NET. Well after I had outlined what I wanted to do it would be quite a bit of work. There has to be others out there that want the same type of web site, so I scowed the internet to see what was available. I tried dotNetNuke. It was close to what I wanted so I went to find a host. Since my domain was registered with godaddy I gave their hosting a shot. Well long story short it wasn't going to be easy to get dotNetNuke up and running. I did get it limping along, but this needed to be quick and take as little time as possible. I tried a few other things: WordPress, Weebly, Familiva. I ended up using blogger with Picasa's web albums. This is easy to use. Maybe in the future I'll have some time to whip up a snazzy family site again. If you want to check out my family's blog visit www.jjesnroth.com.
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