I must say, I do see your point for not allowing bulk photo downloads. The site will be a lot more effective when people can browse through the highlights, and not every trigger happy shot thats been taken.
Seeing as you're pretty open to suggestions, i have a few more for you to ponder. I've only just started using this, so its probably best to take these with a grain of salt.

1) More customisation of our profiles. Things like background colours, layout, etc... It doesnt have to be anything crazy, but it would be cool to be able to change.

2) A section where we can put links to external pages would be cool as well. Such things as Flickr (would make it easier for people to see large quantities of photos), myspace, youtube (where we may have uploaded video), and other helpful links to things that people find while they're traveling (cheap accom, food, attractions...etc)

3) I recon a contents page for peoples blog entries would be quite useful. For example, I'll be stopping at a lot of places in the states and writing a lot of entries for that trip, and I think it would be easier to have some sort of a contents page at the top so family and friends can find out what I did in Vegas a month ago without having to scroll through 5 pages of entries. Maybe you already have this, and I just haven't got it figured out yet.

4) A subscription thingy so friends and fam are automatically notified by email when new photos, or blogs are posted. I think this would be a great feature.

5) Albums for photos would be a great feature. Also making the albums so they can be linked, or attached to a certain blog would be good. Say someone was reading my Vegas blog and they wanted to see some of the pics, they could just click on the link up near the blog title, or something like that.

I'm also still finding the map a little tricky to get the hang of. My American route I had set up keeps changing. I think its because the dates are in the future and its getting confused.

Also, how do you control what appears on the map of my homepage. I know my american trip displays the american route, but the one on my homepage im not sure how to change it.

I must say that when I was searching for sites that I could use to post my activities, this one was far better than most of the others out there. And the fact that you're so open to input from others really puts you a cut above.

Thanks for the great site which I cant wait to start using once I actually get on the road.

Cheers

Brodie

written by  Brodie on April 3, 2007