Sharing Letters from a Soldier

WaxwingWaxwing Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
edited April 15, 2011 in SmugMug Support
I'm hoping for some suggestions. My son recently joined the army. He asked that I scan his daily letters to share them with family and create a journal for him to read in future years. I initially though I'd create a wordpress blog and have each post correspond to a letter received on a particular day. Pro: family can subscribe; Cons: lots of hassle loading PDFs or JPEGs, formatting, linking, etc. And the reading experience isn't very good. Is the something similar I could do with SmugMug? I loaded two multipage letters and they display well enough to read online. Some desires include...
  • Easily upload images and keep in order by date
  • Ability to subscribe so family would get notification of new letters
  • Potential to group multiple pages into one letter with one thumbnail
  • Ability to view on an iPad
  • Ability to sync with a folder on my Mac or album in Aperture
  • Prefer PDF but realize it probably will be JPEG

I know this isn't a typical use of SmugMug but the presentation has much better potential than a typical blog. Any idea? How might you approach it? Tricks for tagging or organizing?

Thanks.

Comments

  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2011
    You could do this with a SmugMug gallery if you upload a JPG per page to a gallery. The gallery can be set to auto sort 'by date uploaded' (or you use a filename like page0001.jpg which you increment for each page and then set the gallery to 'by filename' sort) to have the pages in order.
    You can choose from a number of styles, but the journal style might be suited best as it displays the photo very large and visitors can scroll throw different photos without having to click on the next photo to read.

    SmugMug galleries can also be viewed fine on an iPad or other devices including a browser. Or you can use the iPad app:
    http://www.smugmug.com/ipad/

    In terms of notification, your visitors can subscribe to the feed for the gallery and they'll be able to see when there's an update to the gallery in their browser.
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/rss-atom-feeds

    When uploading with our browser uploader, you can just drag in the whole folder with all photos. The uploader will by default skip already uploaded photos and only upload the new ones.
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-pictures

    Hope this helps,
    Sebastian
    Sebastian
    SmugMug Support Hero
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