I use iPhoto quite a bit, but I had rarely used its .Mac integration features. My mother, on the other hand, relied heavily on the Home Page button in previous versions of iPhoto. This button allowed you to easily take a selection of photos, apply one of .Mac's photo album templates, and publish to your .Mac homepage. All that was done within iPhoto, and took only a couple of button presses and almost no time.
At my prodding (so she could take advantage of some other nice features in iLife'06), she recently upgraded to iPhoto6. Shortly thereafter, I she let me know she was not happy about the missing Home Page button. It turns out that this feature was simply removed from iPhoto6 -- it seems Apple wants everyone to run their images through iWeb for web publication. For my mom, though, iWeb is overkill, and it doesn't offer nearly the same number of themes as does the .Mac photo album feature. She doesn't want a full-blown site page, she just wants a nice photo album. Since I felt responsible for her upgrading, I had to come up with at least a workable solution for her. What follows is pretty basic stuff, but if you relied on the Home Page button and lament its passing, read on for the simplest workaround I was able to come up with (alternatives welcome).
At first, I thought this would be a great excuse to create an Automator workflow for my mom to make the process simple. But after spending a few hours on development, I realized that the workflow was actually slower and more complex than the following solution, so I threw it out. In the end, this seems to be simplest way to publish to a .Mac photo album with iPhoto6:
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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060509080220138