Online - Brief Article

PSA Journal, August, 2000

Carole Kropscot, Editor 2812 Bowie Dr., Plano, TX 75025 (972) 618-4343, Fax: (972)618-4343 (call first) E-mail: carole.kropscot@gte.net

Keep sending those e-mails (note my new e-mail address), photos, websites, questions and comments.

Websites for You to Visit

www.photosource.com contains the PhotoAim newsletter to which you can subscribe for free, as Bob Finlay informs us. Plenty of information to keep you busy and happy for a while. Another site with much helpful information is www.shortcourses.com, as sent by Tim Morton. For some photojournalism try spending some time at www.lifemagazine.com, says Jose Artiles. He also sends along www.photosmart.com/smarttips/ smarttips.html.

Carole Honigsfeld suggests www.colorphotography.com, which features worldwide architectural photographic images and is presented in a format that offers these pictures for sale in a variety of sizes, framed or unframed, and ordered either on the Internet via e-mail or by telephone. This site is an excellent example of how to present your photographs for sale. Another site that will inspire you to make your own website is by Madlyn and Gil Yeager, APSA's, at http://allnatureswonders.com, where you'll even "hear" nature's sounds!

Photos on Your Website, Part 3: The Location

Where on the Internet can you put your photo website? There are many FREE locations. In addition to the ones written about in this Online column, you can find many more by using a search engine for "free websites." Your new vocabulary will include web "hosting" and web "space." To create your website, you can use the programs at your new web host or space, or you can bring in your own html. So, beginners and advanced PSAer's get busy! I expect to receive an e-mail from you with your website's URL, even if you have only one photo on it! I'll be delighted at your triumph!

If you use version 5 of AOL for either Mac or PC, click on You've Got Pictures to set up your photo album there. You can use photo files you've already prepared to upload. It is not required to use only photos developed and sent to this AOL section. As a bonus, you can order cute things with your photo on it, such as a mug, jigsaw puzzle, shirt, mouse pad, photo bear, or just prints.

www.webshots.com offers you a place to share your photos online. It works for both Mac and PC. www.ofoto.com offers a similar service for only PC's.

Desirous of a website which is more than a photo album to share? www.geocities.com offers you a variety of website-making programs, from beginning to advanced. Your URL (address on the Internet) will be simply the name you choose to sign up with, and it will come right after the www.geocities.com. I've put up a simple one-page, 4-photo page, which I'll leave there for a few months for you to see: www.geocities.com/ manyphotographs. BTW, that's my granddaughter in pink. By the way, BTW is computer-speak for, you guessed it, by the way! For more advanced website makers, try making a website at www.crosswinds.net and www.angelcities.com.

PSA Conference Sept. 4-9

Hop "online" to bone up on New Mexico, where I'll be seeing you at THE Conference. Use those search engines I wrote about in the May 2000 issue. You'll enjoy Albuquerque more if you know more about it then than you do now! Check out the PSA website for information, too.