Picasa Web Albums

So, I've grown very bored with gathering up photos and posting them to the web. Up until now, I've always created my own thumbnails of each picture, linked those to the web-optimized full sized picture, and FTP'd them to my site. I know that there are sites that are supposed to make this easy for you, but I haven't discovered the one to fit me yet...

My Web Albums!

... until now. Leave it to Google to finally release the tool that would give me everything that I wanted in a web album. Just out of the box, you get:

• A photo gathering and organizing application, called Picasa, that isn't intrusive, annoying or difficult to use. It gathers and organizes your photos based upon the folders they are kept in and the timestamps when they were taken


• 250 MB of space to hold your photos online. So, far, I have over 70 photos online, and I'm only using 9% of my space. That's a lot of free photo storage.


• One button clicking to upload my photos to my web albums...highlight the photos you want to upload, click the "Web Album" button, fill out a name for your album...and you are done.


• Attractively organized web pages...the Picasa site is simple to navigate, and it automatically creates all the thumbnails and navigation I want

Friends can leave comments on my photos, I can easily caption the pictures, albums that I have made public can be downloaded in one click by friends and family.

Now if only they could help me take prettier pictures (thank god for Kathleen!)