Need help choosing online photo sharing services: looking for "non-flat" album structure

<p>I am trying to organize and make public all the digital photos that has so far been stored on my computer at home. There are various choices of online photo sharing services like Picasa, Flickr, Snapfish etc. Which one would you recommend? One specific thing that I need is to be able to organize my albums and sub-albums in a hierarchical fashion, just like I have it on my computer. In other words, if I have a folder on my computer for "TripToPlaceX" and in there subfolders "Day1", "Day2", etc, I want to be able to organize the photos the same way online, rather than dumping them all into a single online album "Trip" and differentiating between different "Days" using tags or something like that. I played with Picasa a bit but could not figure out how to do it there. Is it even possible? Is there a different service that would let me do it? Thanks much. </p>

<p>Flickr allows you to organize data into Sets and then to organize Sets into Collections.</p>

<p>So, you could have a Collection called "Trip X" and each day organized as a separate Set of Trip X. </p>

<p>These sorts of features are only available to paid members.</p>

 

<p>Hi I Z,<br>

I've found Zenfolio to have a good photo management system interface. It does have the ability to organize main and sub-albums. Even lets you change how each sub-album looks, along with a whole set of property variables you can change. <br>

Everything about the way the backend to the front operates is just so smooth and streamlined. Really a pleasure to use.<br>

I've been using it as a gallery for wedding clients. To this end, it has a highly professional look to it. I also have a Flickr account, but I wouldn't use it to show proof images. Flickr, Picasa, etc have high emphasis on social networking, while Zenfolio is about archive management and presentation.<br>

However if you want to share images, it does have capabilities such as embedding, mass invites, slideshows, etc.<br>

Feel free to use my referral code: WM1-76V-FPZ if you decide you want to open an account. You get $5 off signup.<br>

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<p>If you have some computer skills, JAlbum combined with a generic, run-of-the-mill web hosting service can be a great way to go. JAlbum has "skin" plug-ins that let you choose the look & feel of your site from a very wide variety of looks. Once you get the basics set up (choose a hosting site, choose a skin, enter the FTP username & password into JAlbum, add your first set of pics to JAlbum, upload), it's trivial to add more folders, more pics, etc, and upload them to your web site. I use APlus.net for my hosting service, but there are tons of them. <br>

<a href="http://WaltZPhotography.com">http://WaltZPhotography.com</a><br>

Everything below the top two lines was generated by JAlbum and the FotoPlayer skin.</p>