I recently launched a blog (along with a website) through Into The Darkroom.  By the way, ITDR are great people and if you are in the market for either a blog or website, template or custom, give these guys a once-over.  Seriously.

So I launched my blog.  I'm a photographer so naturally, I will be blogging images often.  Sometimes, there are a couple of images in a quick post and other times, there are 20 or so features from a wedding.  No matter how many, my goal is to keep blogging and keep fresh images on my blog for visitors to return to again and again.  

Judging only from the traffic I've received in the last few weeks related to my blog, let me tell you - AN OFT-UPDATED BLOG IS WHERE ITS AT.  I've learned from the amazing (and free!) information brought to me by Google Analytics that people from all over the country (even some from outside the US) have spent significant amounts of time on my blog, peeking at multiple posts and even visiting my website by way of a blog post.  All that to say, if you're not blogging your images, you should be.

Okay, I've visited Bakery au lbobiville and learned to bake the bread but I want lots of lbobians to weigh in on exactly how to butter it.  Here's the question:  HOW do YOU blog images?

I've seen a few different blogs doing it a few different ways. There are some who, from the looks of it, use Photoshop to layout the images into one large JPG and drop that into the post - which is the method I used for a wedding post on my own blog.  But then I've seen some who are apparently dropping each image into their post individually (a good example here at Style Me Pretty).

So which of these (or another great method) is it for you?  And why?  Do you use templates or special coding?  Or is it custom to each post?  Let's talk pros & cons of any method we're using.

Thanks for your time, lbobiville.

Chris Fox

Oklahoma City, OK