How To Quickly & Easily Embed Photos In Your Website Or Blog
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A short guide to quickly and easily embedding photos in your website or blog.
I quickly realised when designing & coding my website that it’s not easy to create a gallery for my photos. Coding by hand is very time consuming. Even using a flash application like Simpleviewer it still takes time to resize photos and prepare multiple galleries. Leaving photos out of my website is not an option - it’s a photography website.
Then I saw SlideFlickr in use here and decided to try it. As the name suggests you do need to have a Flickr account to use it. If you haven’t tried Flickr yet then it’s definitely worth a go, even if it’s just to make a slideshow with SlideFlickr. Flickr is both free and extremely versatile.
How to use SlideFlickr:
- Create a Flickr account and upload photos. SlideFlickr will run quicker if you make the photos small for the web. I typically size mine at 800 pixels wide and use the ‘Save for web and devices…’ option on PhotoShop CS3 to make a file sized at 150kb or less.
- If you don’t want to display all the photos in your account create a set for the slideshow.
- Go to SlideFlickr and follow the 3 step instructions:
- Insert your Flickr username or url. For example, mine is http://www.flickr.com/photos/magicalplaces/
- Customise your slideshow. Here you can choose the size, the background colour, the name, the speed, add your own logo, add music or assign a creative commons license. You can also choose which photos in your flickr account to display: all of them, or a specific set, tags or your favourites.
- Hit the preview button!
- If you like what you see, copy the html code that appears below the word Embed.
- You can then place the html code in your webpage or (almost any) blog.
Below is the example that I created. Whenever I add new photos to my Flickr favourites, they will be automatically displayed in the widget.
Verdict: This is an excellent, easy to use, free widget. All you need is a flickr account and the ability to follow simple instructions. No knowlegde of html or coding required. As a way of quickly adding photos to a website or blog, I’ve yet to find anything easier or faster.
The only disadvantage is that it can’t be used on a Wordpress.com blog as wordpress doesn’t allow embedded objects. If you host a wordpress blog on your own server, it will work fine.
What do you think of SlideFlickr? Have you used any other widgets to display photos on a website or blog? Share your comments below.
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Thanks for posting this. I’m a tech savvy photographer on the web but I have lots of friends who are photographers that can’t write code and are having a hard time finding solutions like this with instructions. I’ll forward this post to them!
Thanks for posting.
Peace,
Rich Harris
http://www.47project.com
Hello and thanks a lot for the review!
Concerning Wordpress.com embedding, you can use an external 3rd party tool like Vodpod ( http://vodpod.com/wordpress/ ) which works pretty well for Slideflickr.com slideshows as well
Stelabouras
http://www.slideflickr.com
Hi there,
just a quick query regarding the above:
“Concerning Wordpress.com embedding, you can use an external 3rd party tool like Vodpod ( http://vodpod.com/wordpress/ ) which works pretty well for Slideflickr.com slideshows as well ”
i went to the Vopod link and it gives you means to post Videos to your site, not embedded slide shows.Am i overlooking something here?
thanks,
best,
Manas
Hi Manas,
I had a look at the Vopod website and I think it will work with SlideFlickr which is embedded in a blog or website with similar HTML code to a video. If you have a wordpress.com blog (which is entirely different from a WordPress blog like this one) it doesn’t allow you to embed videos (or a SlideFlickr slideshow), but according to the comment above Vopod give you a way around this. This is the theory anyway, I haven’t actually tested it.