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Since then, I've posted 31 pictures taken mostly in the US, Canada and China.  Most have been accepted and are viewable on Google Earth.

Their policy regarding pictures suitable for Google Earth seems to be mainly (1) do not be offensive and (2) do not risk legal problems regarding rights (model/building/artwork releases) and (3) use it to show visitors the location, not to show off your "art."   Some of my submittals were chosen to test rule 2 and I have to say I don't necessarily agree with a couple they refused but I see their logic and and can't fault their consistency.

Web traffic to my site?  No noticeable impact.  Comments?  None on content.

There are a lot of good photos on Panoramio and you can search for areas or authors, even use it to share your travel photos in a free web gallery.  (Photos rejected for use on Earth are still available for viewing at Panoramio).

Check it out.

Il mio sito è rimasto in uno stato a dir poco indecoroso, mi ripropongo sempre di sistemarlo, ma tant'è che sta ancora li abbandonato. Il fatto è che non ho mai tempo e quando ce l'ho mi manca la voglia per finire il lavoro iniziato. Oggi però ho scoperto qualcosa di molto molto carino che ha fatto scattare la scintilla dell'idea e la mia creatività s'è risvegliata.

Grazie al sito/blog di AirTightInteractive ho riscoperto non solo SimpleViewer, ma tutta una serie di visualizzatori per creare Web Galleries a dir poco strepitosi, gratuiti anche per scopi commerciali purchè rimanga visibile il link (in basso a destra assolutamente non vistoso) al sito originario. Per chi volesse esistono le versioni PRO che hanno delle features in più.

SimpleViewer
Lo dice il nome "semplice" per creare gallerie di immagini in Flash che vengono presentate in maniera piuttosto statica. Si ha la possibilità di avere una matrice di preview accanto ad un'immagine grande. Più facile da vedere che da descrivere.
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AutoViewer
Le immagini scorrono in orizzontale, sopra ogni immagine è possibile visualizzare un testo descrittivo in vari stili. E' possibile scorrere le immagini manualmente (tramite mouse o tastiera) oppure premendo il tasto "play" lasciare che scorrano per noi.
Demo | Download

PostCardViewer
Inizia il divertimento.. le immagini vengono presentate come se si spargessero su un tavolo, un animazione le sposta da un punto centrale disponendole in file e colonne. Cliccando su un'immagine si fa uno Zoom sulla stessa ed è possibile leggere il testo scritto, proprio come se fosse una cartolina.
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TiltViewer
L'apoteosi assoluta. Le immagini vegono caricate come se fossero fogli tridimensionali che fluttuano sulla pagina, muovendosi con il mouse la "tabella" di immagini si muove in 3D. Se si clicca su una singola immagine si fa uno zoom sulla stessa, se si clicca sulla particolare icona in basso a destra dell'immagine la facciamo ruotare su se stessa tanto da leggerne le note sul retro! Note che naturalmente decidiamo noi, se non fosse abbastanza è possibile posizionare sul retro di ogni immagine un link ipertestuale! Questa particolare versione è in grado di interfacciarsi con Flickr o Picasa! Ultimo ma non meno importante i suoni associati alle varie azioni rendono il tutto ancora più entusiasmante!
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Unica avvertenza, per poter sfruttare le potenzialità di queste interfacce è necessario conoscere un minimo di XML (veramente il minimo), ripeto per SimpleViewer esiste Porta, per gli altri non ho visto ancora niente di simile. Con un pò di pazienza sono presenti sul sito dell'autore tutta una serie di aiuti e tutorials. Consiglio comunque di abbonarsi all'RSS Feed del sito perchè è veramente ricco di contenuti e trucchi, anche se è solo in lingua inglese.

Short about myself. My name is Gunnar Blöndal and I'm a photojournalist based in Oslo, Norway. I work for the Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, in English called "the Norwegian Business Daily". I have close to 20 years of experience shooting for newspapers and started using Adobe Photoshop back in 2.5.1. In 2001 I dropped film for digital and have been missing a program like Aperture ever since.

But back to making a web-site with Aperture and iWeb. I have since Apertures release wondered why not Apple just easily included Apertures web-galleries and web-journals into iWeb. It's really not that hard as you'll find out if you read on.

There are several ways about this, but I'll only explain it my way. This is not a detailed touturial. You will need to know your way around the different applications we are about to use.
We'll use a webfeature called iframe that is not supported by iWeb. But with the help of iWeb Enhancer simple magic happens.

Here is the shopping list:

Aperture
iWeb
iWeb Enhancer - shareware - licence 12.95 US$ - download here: http://web.mac.com/cbrantly/iWeb/Software/iWeb%20Enhancer.html
OniGraffle - optional - bundled with most Mac OS systems
Art Directors Toolkit - optional - bundled with most Mac OS systems
Somewhere on the web to publish your site. The easiest is a .mac account, but any provider will do. In this explanation however I'll be referring to publishing on a .mac account.

ToDo list:
- SORT OUT - your pictures and create web galleries or journals.
- OVERVIEW - draw a site map over your site. Use OmniGraffle or simply pen and paper.
- DESIGN - create your site in iWeb
- PUBLISH

There are a few more todos under each main todo. Let's start:

SORT OUT

First in Aperture you need to sort out your pictures and decide what you want on your site.
Here is how I have done it.

In Aperture I made a folder called "Web site". Then two subfolders called "Published" and "Under construction". While working with the galleries they are all under the "Under construction" folder. When I'm done sorting them out and have published them I move them to the "Published" folder.
It really does not matter if you use web galleries, smart web galleries or web journals as long as you pay attention to the width of the gallery.
My site is 900 pixels wide and about 750 pixels high. The iframe we'll make later is 900 x 650 pixels.
All my galleries are made with the black stock theme in Aperture

Play around with both web galleries and web journals. Publish them to your .mac account or to a folder on your computer or a disk. Evaluate the galleries in a web browser and check the width. For this use Art Directors Toolkit and use the ruler. Make sure you have selected pixels as your unit. The ruler will help you to check the height and width of your galleries.

OVERVIEW

It's very helpfull to make an overview of the site you want to make. For this I use Omnigraffle (bundeld with most new Macs)
(you can also do this with pen and paper. The main thing is to lay a plan and get an overview.)
Here is my simple layout:

The top section are pages I make in iWeb. The bottom section is galleries made in Aperture. The galleries are combined with six pages made in iWeb. The Home page and six pages linked from the Pictures page.
On the "Home"page I have made a smart web gallery called "lastin" that will feature my latest pictures. This is a gallery I'll change often so that visitors to my site will see my latest work.

The "Blog" is just an iWeb blog

The "Pictures" page has links to the pages with the Aperture web galleries.

The "Contact" page is contains info about me and how to get in touch with me.

DESIGN

On my site I have decided to drop the automatically made navigation menu that iWeb makes. If you want to save yourself some hassle - keep it. I suggest you make a top banner either with text as I have done or a graphical design.
For the pages where you want your Aperture galleries to appear use the Empty iWeb default page. Design the top of the page as you want it. It's a good idea to make template pages so you don't have to recreate all pages that you need for your site.

Now for the magic of iWeb Enhancer. On your template page create a rounded rectangle where you want your Aperture gallery to appear. Resize it as you want it, but make sure that it will fit your Aperture gallery. Think of iframe simply as a hole in
a webpage filled with a HTML code or webpage from a different location. This is why your Aperture gallery must not exceed in width and height the rounded rectangle you make in iWeb.

Double-click inside the rounded rectangle and write the following code:

your_user_name/aperture gallery_name/" width="900" height="650" scrolling="no" border="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"> 

The words in inverse you will need to change to suit your .mac account username and gallery name. (Or replace the whole http link with the link to your gallery if you publish to a different server.)

After you have made all your pages and made sure that your links are correct - publish.

Sync your iDisk. When that is done, run iWeb Enhancer. You will be asked to find your site containing the pages you want to iWeb Enhance.
The path for a iWeb site on your iDisk is: iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/your_site_name/

iWeb Enhancer will run and when finished click OK. Then sync your iDisk again.
Now you can try your new site in a web browser. For a .mac account the link should be:

http://web.mac.com/your_username/iWeb/site_name/

If you did everything right you should get something like this:

The link to my site is: www.gunnarblondal.com