My focus is my photography. Naturally, I’d be posting photos. Before posting any photos, I had to upload my photos first. I thought it would take too much time to upload them. Surprisingly, it was quite fast, considering that I was just using a dial-up connection. There’s this setting in the gallery wherein I could set what the size limit per photo is. Another thing is the auto-resizing feature that they have—if I forget to resize the photo or didn’t notice the size of the photo, it automatically resizes the photo, making it more convenient for me (I don’t have to resize the photo and re-upload).

Since then, I would sleep late in the evening…or should I say early in the morning already. Uploading my photos was very addictive. I was enjoying the process. I wanted to finish everything right away so I can tell my friends about the photos and let them comment on them.

 
At first, my photos were all scrambled. I had around 60 albums. Great thing was that DotPH had a feature that would let me put an album within another album. I was able to collect the related photos (for example, all kids’ albums) and put it in one big album. There was the same number of albums but at least, they are more organized. It’s easier to browse through them.

 
Another wonderful feature is the “Password Feature.” For some albums that I do not want everybody to see, I assigned a username and password. I would simply inform my friends about it and they could just login and type the username and password when they want to view these private albums.

There is also a count of the number of visits in an album. It’s an indicator of how many have visited my album. Mababaw as it may be, it makes me feel good, knowing that a lot of people are visiting my website. This is another favorite feature of mine.

One night, my friend asked me to join her at a party of her friend. I did. I met Emil; he was working for DotPH. My camera was with me and Emil saw some of the photos stored in my memory card. It was just the right time—DotPH was about to launch i.ph and they were looking for people to be featured. He offered me a chance to put my photos online with any name of my choice as a URL address. I was excited! It was one of my dreams to show my photos to the world. What better way than to put it in a website! And with a website of my choice!

Emil was kind enough to show me how the site works. I am not a computer expert; I have no idea how to make a website from scratch. I decided on a name. I told him. Then not long after, it was ready! He showed me the basics and it looked simple. I was afraid that if I went home and did it myself, I would forget how it worked. Good thing was that Emil assured me that if ever I had any questions or concerns or problems with the site, I could ask him any time. And surely, he responded to my concerns right away, no matter how little they may be.

Service is great! It’s amazing actually how DotPH has evolved, how their service has improved from almost a year ago. Now, I can login from my blog, I don’t need to go to i.ph anymore. The list of my albums can be seen in the sidebar. I know if there are any comments that were posted; I don’t need to go to each album to check for comments. From the many glitches in the website to almost perfect, with a bonus of more and new services that would make blogging more convenient and FUN for the users. It’s addictive I tell you.