Do I make a website, newsgroup, or what?

[brewerjamie15]

We have family and friends spread out all over the place, and in an effort to bring us all a bit closer together I would like to create a place that we can all share/view photos or notes.

 

So- being about as computer smart as a log, I need to find something easy to initiate, easy to manage, easy for all to access, something I can password protect or limit from the public, easy for photos, and anything else that I'd need which I am not aware of. I want to keep it super inexpensive but I'm not willing to have pop up ads and other irritating garbage all over the place. Yuku is an option of course, but it has pop ups if I don't pay a fee. If it's only a small amount of cash, I can spring for it but like I said, I'd like to explore options if possible.

 

Any ideas.

[dadofandrew]

myfamily.com

[1992casey]

Yuku doesn't have popups, but the ads are kind of gross. They show up within messages themselves in up to three posts per page, depending on the number of posts on the page. To stay ad-free on a small board, it'd cost $54 per year.

[MHgb]

To have your own website (domain + hosting via godaddy) = $55-60. It's just a matter if you can make it do what you want with the computacity (just made it up--I like it) of a log.

[stoutdude04]

Have them join facebook or myspace or something? Create a group where its invite only. Its free, so thatd be nice.

[ewizabeff]

www.blogger.com is pretty to use. You can authorize multiple people to post to the blog, but I'm not sure you can make the page private.

 

Facebook would also be a great option.

[rluzinski]

I'd be tempted to go the blogger route as well. The software is so easy to use and you can add photos easily.

[brewerjamie15]

Thanks for the tips everyone.

[Brian the Automator]

Go with LiveJournal ... It's like blogger, except there are access rules that allow you to specify who has access to what. Not really much in the way of photo album functionality there, but you can certainly link to photos you host somewhere else.