Photo Hosting/Sharing for Advanced Amateur

[FoxyBlue]

I'm not sure I like the idea of just hosting my photos on Snapfish or Photobucket. It's nice for some stuff, but I'd like a better way to store lots of photos for easy (and aesthetically nicer) browsing. Sort of an online gallery for my work :)

The thing is, there are SO many websites. I thought that I had a decent thing going with blogspot (blogger.com), but recently I added some pictures and the entries were showing up in wierd order. Basically, it's just not very good for what I want.

Does anyone have any recommendations? If you made (or have made) your own website (ie, buying a domain and hosting space), what did you do? Where did you buy it?

I wish I had more specific questions, but I just don't know where to start.

I want a nice way to host some of my pictures and I'd love to know of some functional, reliable places to do that.

Thanks!!

[clammyinsf]

hi,

i've been looking at this company bc they provide nice templates for a reasonable price. i'm a wedding coordinator but the site templates are designed more for photographers:

http://creativemotiondesign.com/

hth!

[Koala_Gurl]

I have been looking at smugmug.com.

I haven't tried it just yet though...

[Katy]

I really like Flickr.com - they're great for organizing and posting. I love that I can use tags and folder and decide how I want to share my photos ... public, friends or family only or completely private. More than likely you'll need a Pro account, but it's only about $20 a year.

[TracieB]

I use mpix.com.