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How to use Flickr photo gallery on your website or blog

If you would like to display product photos, a portfolio of your work or photos of work in progress on your website or blog, setting up a Flickr Photo Gallery is the way to go, says Jo Couchman
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You can upload multiple photos quickly and easily, organise them into sets, then choose widgets or badges to display your photos automatically on your website or blog. You can even create an automatic blog post when you upload a new photo.

Getting your photos onto Flickr
Create a free account at www.flickr.com (you need a free Yahoo account to do this)
Login and click on the Upload Photos link
Choose photos from your computer, then upload
Choose a set name for a group of photos
Add titles, descriptions and tags (like keywords)
Save that

batch of photos

Displaying Flickr Photos on your website/blog
There are several different ways to display your Flickr photos or images on your website/blog. All allow you to choose which set of photos to display and all update automatically when you add a new photo to that set.
1. Download the Flickr WP widget Plugin to your blog, activate, then paste your Flickr feed code into the Flickr box under Presentation/Widgets and drag onto your sidebar.
2. Create a Flickr badge (either html or flash format) by logging in to your Flickr account, going to Help/Tools at the bottom and click on the ‘build a badge’ link on the right. (See a flash example on the right sidebar of my blog). Once you have built your badge, copy the code and paste into your website or blog.

Email Photos and create an automatic blog post
This is quite an amazing feature…Log in to your Flickr account, then go to Help/Tools at the bottom of the page. If you click on the ‘Upload by email’ link on the right, you can get a special email address which links up to the blog you specify. When you email that address and attach a photo, it turns the email into a blog post and loads it onto Flickr simultaneously. The subject line becomes the post title and the content of the email becomes the post content. See an example here. I sent this photo as an attachment on an email and it appeared minutes later on my blog.

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