IWeb Photo Pages vs. MobileMe Gallery

I post a personal blog with quite a few pictures. Does anyone know the advantages to using an iWeb Albums/Photo pages versus using the widget to link to MobileMe galleries?

You should look at the user experience. iWeb albums are attractive and easy for the user to use. Widgets can be useful for a quick way to link to an external gallery but as a user I would find it a less attractive option than the iWeb albums. Would you, if you were a stranger visiting the site, find one or the other option more or less attractive?
The greatest advantage with any web page element is where the user finds something enticing, and therefore wanting to return to the site. You optimize with that as your first thought and then design accordingly.

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    marking as answered because I think I posted this in the wrong forum.

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  • Can't edit photos in my MobileMe gallery in iPhoto '11

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    Then you won't have them in your iPhoto library. Only links to them.
    Do you have the option to subscribe to the galleries and/or download the files into your library. Those option are in the gallery's menu bar:
    Click to view full size
    If the download option is available you can get copies of the photos and import them into your library so you can edit them.
    For those photo you want to edit try dragging its thumbnail in iPhoto to the Desktop. Then import the resulting image file back into iPhoto. That should give you a full size copy of it to work with.
    If you can't drag the thumbnail then try subscribing to the gallery, open the subscription window in iPhoto and try dragging the thumbnail there to the desktop. That worked for me.
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    Message was edited by: Old Toad

  • Iweb photo page resizes photos

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  • Shadowbox problem in Default iWeb Photos Page

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  • Trying to figure how photos "travel" from iPhoto to my iWeb photo pages

    Greetings,
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  • Photo stuck in MobileMe Gallery

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  • Posting pics on iWeb Photo pages

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