Is PhotoBucket a viable solution to host a website's photo galleries

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Published on 2012-04-13T06:08:46Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 11:46 UTC
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I'm currently working with a lot of photographers and will probably be picking up development on a professional photography site soon.

With that in mind, and I can't stop thinking about a way I can implement a user-friendly photo gallery hosting solution where the site owner can upload images themselves without any webmaster intervention.

Kind of like a CMS for image hosting.

The idea is: - The user can log in to PhotoBucket - Upload their gallery - Visit an admin section of the site - Enter the new gallery name to the listing

And... Voila, the gallery automagically gets displayed on the website in a clean lightbox-style presentation format (ie, no iframe nonsense).

I took a brief look at the API and it looks promising. Is this a viable solution?

Bonus points if you have implemented something like this with Photobucket and/or another 3rd-party image hosting site.

Note: Purchasing a premium account is expected if necessary. The limitations on free accounts at most image hosting sites are just too restrictive to be useful.

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