My Thoughts about DotPH (as part of the Blogger program)
October 14, 2005I was going around the site’s settings. I came upon “site traffic.” Does
this mean that I would get to see the number of people visiting my site?
That’s really great! It has a summary of the number of people visiting the
site per hour or per day. Everything’s recorded. It gives me a feel of more
or less how many are visiting my site. When I see that the numbers are going
up, I feel good because I know more people are able to appreciate my photos.
Moreover, I really like the count in the number of clicks on the albums in
the gallery. This gives me an idea of how many visits them and which albums
are visited more. I love this feature because the more clicks there are to
my photos, the more valued they are for me. The date when the album was
created or the count reset is also useful because I am now able to compute
the average number of visits per day for this or so album.
Even per photo, viewers are able to comment on the individual photos.
Before, I had a hard time checking on the comments because I had to go to
each album to see if anyone placed one. But now, there is a space in the
sidebar that contains the links for the latest comments on my photos. This
has made the comment reading easier for me.
Why is this important to me? I am a photographer whose joy comes from
people’s appreciation of my works. The more the number of hits, the more
appreciated I feel, the more motivated I am to take more photos. Comments
imply that people care and they want you to improve. From the site traffic
to the count of hits per album to the comments, I am very happy about how
these contribute to my vision.
My Thought about DotPH (as part of the blogger program)
It was just recently that I’ve learned to use email to blog posting and I am
amazed. The first time I saw it, I didn’t give it much attention. I clicked
on it anyhow but I didn’t understand what it was for. Until I read a DotPH
user’s comments on email posting did I get curious again. I clicked on it
again and this time, I read the instructions carefully. I filled in the
necessary details. I tried it. And wow! How simple can it get!
I got even more curious. I tried attaching a photo to the email to see if I
can also do that from the email. Too bad…It got attached, but the actual
photo didn’t appear in the site. I would have to upload the photo first in
the gallery before the photo would appear. It would be very nice if there
were a way for me to automatically upload the photo even if it were attached
from the email. Let’s say, there would be a default folder that would
contain the photos uploaded from the email. It would be a great innovation
if DotPH were able to find a way to do that. Especially if I just took a
photo using my camera phone and I wish to post it right away, it would be
more convenient if there’s an option that would let me post a photo to the
blog even without going to my site.
p.s. I posted this entry using my email. 
