Deborah Woehr

Last weekend, we had an “almost” when my oldest decided to drink in the living room (against my explicit instructions) and spilled his water all over the table. That wouldn’t have been any big deal if it weren’t for the glass inlays, which the water seeped through and dripped on some old family photos.

Fortunately, the only thing that got wet was the paper frame that held my husband’s grandmother’s wedding picture. I still keep these out because I want my family to enjoy them. But this got me thinking about natural disasters and stupid little accidents such as the one above. With all this technology available, there is no excuse not to have backup copies of your photographs.

I’ve known about photoblogs since I signed up with Blog Explosion last year and even looked at a couple. One of my frequent haunts is opensourcecms.com, where you can test out a variety of Open Source programs without having to install them on your server. On Monday, I found two programs for photoblogs: Pixel Post and Plogger

I decided to install Pixel Post for a test run on Deb’s Photos and Drawings. I’ve just begun to play with it, but I like the fact that there are a variety of templates and plugins available. This program is very basic and easy to figure out. I had no problems with the installation or uploading and manipulating images.

One of the things I don’t like is that you can’t create subcategories. I guess I’m so used to the bells and whistles of WordPress that I’m spoiled.