Ever since LetaLife started carrying property rental adverts I have wanted to provide the facility for people to post pictures of their properties on our website to help illustrate their adverts.

BUT,

as said before we have been learning as we go along on how to put a website together and the technical direction we took meant that for a few years we were unable to offer this as an option.

At last we have the technological know how, but due to LetaLife's success, our manpower is usually taken up dealing with day to day maintainance issues rather than having time to devote to development.

LetaLife Update

I have decided that THIS IS THE WEEK that photos will become an option for Letalife paid advertisers.  I have laid down the gauntlet and nagging will commence until the techie team has got some sort of workable system up and running.

We have a flashy bespoke photo system waiting in the wings but it requires a lot of careful effort to enfold it into the existing LetaLife system.  So I have made an executive decision.

Instead of spending ages incorporating the bespoke system, I have told the techies to put together a temporary (but robust and easy to use) system that will allow Letalife advertisers to submit a TinyPic link to their rental property photograph/s and then we will display those on our website.

I find tinypic very handy for uploading pictures and resizing them, and they are then easy to use in various places online such as forums, blogs, etc etc

The reason we like this option at LetaLife is that once a link has been assigned to that picture it stays linking to that picture alone. 

The beauty of this is that we can do this fairly quickly and yet not compromise our determination to control what we display on our website in order to ensure a pleasant visit for everyone who looks at our pages online.

To begin with we will include the photo option as a freebie extra for those Letalife advertisers who pay to place an advert.  Once the beta testing phase has completed it will be added as another paid option, as we will be keeping to LetaLife's policy of personally checking EVERYTHING before it goes online, and so there will be a small admin charge to cover costs for this personal service.

Tinypic is a free online Image Hosting service which I have personally used for ages.  It is easy to register if you decide you will be using it regularly, but if you want you can just upload your individual pictures without registering.

If you are likely to want to use the photo option on LetaLife and you aren't already familiar with TinyPic, now might be a good time to go and check it out so you are ahead of the curve.

I shall be putting together a "How to Use TinyPic for LetaLife Advertiser's"  tutorial, which I will publish on this blog in the next few days.

Hope you are having a great Summer ...