How are you managing such efficient updates to your website (eg uploaded photos)?

The website really isn't to difficult to do. I have a 2 megapixel camera with 2x128MB flash cards. It allows me about 500 photos before I need to burn a CD (don't laugh, but at the current rate this is about every 2 weeks!). I install my camera software on the computer in the internet cafe/computer shop I find that has a CD burner to do it. I find this just while looking around town. Mostly they don’t speak much (any) English but signing and a few polite local words is usually enough to get control. I do it myself (less hassle). Once I have the CD I then choose the photos I want and shrink them down using Ifranview (a nifty little 700K image processing program available for free off the web that does heaps of stuff). Maps I grab off the web, convert them to bmp, edit them using pbrush, and then convert them to jpg for the web (again using ifranview). My rule of thumb is that I don't have images more than 50k for the internet or else it is to slow.

Geocities (a yahoo site) is a good, reliable, and free web site but GEOCITIES CANNOT BE ACCESSED IN CHINA!!!! The government has put a block on it (to much freedom of info I suppose). You can edit it in China, but no-one can view it. I actually made my web site in China but first saw it in Kyrgyzstan (and boy, where there also of mistakes!)

So basically the web page has been no problem. You just need to be a little computer savvy cos all of the people running the shops don't speak english. Just check yourself if a computer has got a burner. If it has your are away. It costs between $1-$5US to burn a CD.

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