As you can see, I’ve been working on making a photoblog. Nothing too complex. My only requirement was that I wanted to use the photos that are hosted on my smugmug account, so that I wouldn’t have to maintain two sets of images online. It’s already a big enough pain to maintain one locally on disk and one on smugmug.
Anyhow, so my trick was to use the part of a smugmug’s permalink that uniquely identifies an image, and embed image urls dynamically based on that identifier. The identifier is inputted as a custom field for an article, and each image URL is reconstructed from that identifier according to smugmug’s convention. Since they generate all type of sizes of thumbnails, it actually makes the whole thing very easy.
Eventually, clicking through will take you to the actual smugmug album, but I haven’t gotten that far yet.