It’s been a tough summer for photo sharing services. I sympathize with people who have to contend with the demise of their online photo service. Not only are precious images at stake, but it can be a huge hassle to recreate galleries with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of photos. Whenever a Photosite or a Yahoo Photos goes out of business, it really highlights the importance of user control.

If the thought of going to yet another photo sharing service makes you cringe, try an alternative: Shozam Web Gallery Generator. Anyone can create a top-notch gallery – HTML knowledge is not required. Because the gallery is generated on your computer, you are in complete control. If you want to change Web hosts, it's easy to just move your gallery to a new host. Uploading an optimized Shozam gallery is 40 times faster than uploading photos to a Web host (more about this later). And, if the Web host goes down, you have a copy of all your work residing safely on your own computer.

Download Shozam and try it out for free. As an extra nudge, we’ll give you 15% off the Shozam Express Edition, the fastest, easiest way to create your own Web gallery. Just enter this coupon code on the order form: SHOZ-L644-REF

Welcome to Shozam. Photosite and Yahoo Photos, R.I.P.