Can anyone recommend a photo sharing website where it's easy for other people to download your pics and short movies?

[HouseOfBamboo]

That's it really - am prepared to pay a modest subscription.

It's just for sharing family snaps and short movies with far away relatives. Has to be hassle-free to upload, and easy for them to download in bulk (ie not just one photo at a time, as there tend to be quite a few).

Have been using Picasa web albums which are nice and easy to upload to, but not so easy to download from. Also not sure if you can download short movies, no success trying so far.

Try flickr.

Another option is www.YouSendIt.com which allows you to upload files of up to 50 MB (free, larger files with some fee, I think).

You upload, and a link is sent by e-mail.

Of course if you send the link to yourself, you can then forward it on to as many relatives as needed, and each can download.

Makes far more sense for you to use a librarian tool like WinZIP (or for free, I think, ZipGenius) to put a lot of photos into a single downloadable file and let them 'unpack' into a new folder at their end.

I don't know what size your movies are, but another option would be to get some cheap web hosting, and save your files there. You can use built-in FTP command on Windows to upload a ZIP and then download it with the web browser at the other end.

Lots of places offer cheap/free web hosting - most require you to have a domain name, however, but that can be done for maybe a couple of quid, and then a fiver or so for a year's web hosting might be found on Ebay.

(I'd offer some space for free, but am in the middle of moving from one firm to another, at present... however, if you are interested in this option, can 'lend' you use of one of my domains (for 6 months, say), in a week or two, when things have settled down a bit!)

Just checked and ZipGenius (at www.zipgenius.com) is free.

Thanks NetworkGuy - it hadn't even occurred to me to upload to one of my own sites, doh! I've got a couple of domains I'm not using so can have an experiment.

I have had a go with yousendit - on the free version you can only send one file at a time, so it would mean zipping as you say. I haven't tried zipping recently so that will give that a go too, thanks for the zipgenius info.

Cheers again.

Oh and thanks Liamsdaddy for flickr suggestion - I had a look at that too and apparently you can download an app called bulkr (?) which helps you download lots of files from flickr.