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That’s funny, because the only one that I’ve used and been happy with is photobucket (qoop.com, the service that handles their printing, had fantastic customer service when I used them!)!

The one that I wouldn’t recommend is Kodak Gallery because it requires that people create an account and log in to view photos (and for some reason it’s either really slow for me all the time (no matter what computer I’m using) or it crashes my browser). Flikr is also good and I’ve heard good things about Picasa (though I’m not sure if you can order prints from it).

I have a snapfish account and I use it all the time. I also have a kodak account. I heard that snapfish will close your account and erase all your pictures if you do not purchase some thing after a certain amount of time. My sister had a snapfish account and her pictures were erased. she called them a couple of times and were finally able to get them back. Kodak does not delete your pictures and you do not have to purchase anything to keep your pictures.

i second that you do NOT use photobucket. it has a lot of ads, seems overrun by teenyboppers, and is always VERY slow when i try to use it.

I have only used Kodak but I really like it, I feel like a lot of people I know have the kodak software already, so it would be even easier for them to download the picture into their own system. I currently use it to send my friends and family picture of our gatherings. You just create and album (and you can edit the picture at this time) and then load them on to the website, and invite friend via e-mail to visit. The person that loads the picture on to the website can choose wether or not to have people sign in to view the picture. So if they choose not to, people can just view the picture and browse without signing in or creating an account. I’m not sure if you have to create an account to order things, but I would think you would have to, at Kodak and all the other sites.
I haven’t had a problem with kodak being slow (it does take a little while to upload pictures to the website, but I am usually uploading A LOT of pictures so I expect some wait.
Hope all of this random information helps.

I just created a Flickr account, but then realized that there’s a $25 fee per year for photos over 100MB, which is roughly 100 photos or less. I thought that it was free? Does anyone have thoughts on something similar but free of charge?

We have a SmugMug account. My husband obsessively researched photo sharing sites and decided that SmugMug was the best (for our purposes). You can view photos in several sizes (largest format is almost full-screen) either one at a time or as a slideshow. I’ll send you a link to one of our albums if you’re interested in checking out the functionality, etc. Let me know!

I haven’t tried to upload photos to a group site, but friends used Picasa for their wedding photos. I could view the photos and download the files without any trouble. (I already have a google login from my gmail account - so I can’t remember if you needed to login to view).

i used flickr for our guests, and it worked well! i used vistaprint to make little business cards with the username and password, as well as my cell and email in case our older guests had problems. we got over 500 pictures from it!

you do have to upgrade to the pro account… but that’s only $25 a year.

I used a shared Flickr account as well. (You just create a new username and password, and that’s what you give to your guests.) By the time we got back from the honeymoon there were more than 600 pictures in there! One thing I like is that you can change privacy settings easily (aka, I just made all the uploaded bachelorette party photos private so I can share the rest with my coworkers without fear — but those with the password can still see them.)

We’d like to do this, but we’re concerned that someone will either accidentally or thinking negatively, purposefully, change the password. Is there any photo site that lets you “lock” the password, or only an administrator may change the password?

don’t laugh, but Walgreen’s is the best. You have to sign in to see pictures…but people can download high resolutions of your pictures.

Just my 2 cents. Picasa is great, but it requires that you download their program. Not everyone likes to do that and I’m skeptical that people won’t want to download it.

Flickr just seems to be more user friendly, especially for those non-savvy internet folks

For those who use Flickr, if your guests want to upload, do they have to create an account or is there a way for them to upload to your account so the pictures are all located on one account? I tried to use it and admittedly, I’m not that tech savvy, and it seemed to require every user to create an account?

Skip the uploading all together with Canditto.com!

My mom used to use Snapfish all the time, until they sent her an 8×10 in an IRS envelope, which included a warning that it is against the law for anyone other than the IRS to use. We haven’t used them since.

Dimples, create a new yahoo account specifically for the wedding. Then use that as your FLICKR account. That way you can give out your username & pswd to people without them accessing your main email. That’s what I did, and so far I’m happy with FLICKR.

Another option is dotphoto.com - I’ve been using them for many years and have had minimal problems. I LOVE the quality of their photos and you can download big versions to your desktop and all that good stuff. Free, too!

I totally love flickr. the site is both easy to use and attractive.

dunno if yahoo! has a service provider partner in the US, but in Canada, if your ISP is rogers, you can get a pro account for free by linking a rogers email address with the yahoo! address used for registering/logging into flickr.