Flickr Badge – Your pesonalised photo gallery

There have been times, when you are just bcak from a vactaion..or you have captured some really intresting moments in you camera , its only natural that you would like to share them with the friends online..If its one or two pics, you would include them in a post with a small description..The drawbacks being

1. This is advisable for min number of pics ( 1-5)
2. More number of photos will put more load on the browser
3. As you make the newer posts.. the pictures( in the specific post) are pushed down the archive
4. Eventually, it will dissappear from the view of the ordinary reader
5. This gives only limited viwership with limited number of photos

However, inorder to avoid these.. you may host your pictures in online photo-albums like Web-shots , Photobucket , Flickr, Gallery,Slide, JAlbum and then provide the link to the album at the respective sites..Yet again.. this would redirect the viewer from your page.

So, how would it make you feel..if you had a photgallery right in your sidebar..at all times..so that..the viewer sees the preview of the pictures and click on the pic that intrests him the most.

The most singular option that came to me is the Flickr Badge,You can see the gallery in action in the Right-side-bar immediatly above the Shout-box .This is simple, Easy to do, and does not involve any kind of HTML skills . Just follow the instructions carefully

Thanks to Kat who suggested Slide.com.Its also simple and gives the liberty of preparing Sideshows..with 3 levels of speed (Slow – Medium- Fast ).The sideshow created usng slide can be seen here at my TestBlog

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLICKR

1. Signup with Flickr
2. Primary signup is using your yahoo ID..however you can choose your own flickr Id in the subsequent steps
3. After Signing up, you may upload your pictures (declare them as Public or Private and categorise them using Tags (..they are just like labels.. you name a certain bactch of pics as vacation , Birthday, nature, etc etc )This tagging comes handy while we do our gallery
4. Once you are satisfied with the uploaded photos , tagged them wisely we can proceed to make out Flickr Badge
5. You may choose to have a HTML-Badge or Flash Badge
   • My personal choice is Flash badge..as i feel its compact and puts less pressure on the browser

6. Next you may select a certain-batch-of-Pics that you want to use in the gallery by giving the Tag name
   • i.e you may create individual galleries for the various categories of picture you may have
   • You just need to tag them appropriatively

7. The Next part is easy..You just need to give color to borders, texts etc..You may even choose not to have a backgound / border
8. Finally.. you just copy-paste teh code given by flicker to your sidebar HTML widget

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE

1. Sign up with Slide.com
2. Clik on MAKE SLIDE SHOW
3. If you already have an account with Flickr , Myspace , Photobucket etc.. you need not upload the pics again.. you can give directly upload them to silde from your photo-sharing network
4. You may give various customisations like Style , Themes, Skins, Size etc..While giving the size specification..take care the Width is atleast 5px less than that of your sidebar..That way you can avoid the sidebar / post section from dropping down
5. Once you are satisfied with the pictures and given them appropriate captions..,Click SAVE
6. Choose from the various options among the following for the respective codes

eBay	MySpace Blog	Wretch	BlackPlanet
Live Spaces	Yahoo! 360	Piczo	Xanga
MySpace	Facebook	TypePad	LiveJournal
Geocities	AOL Journal	Old Blogger	New Blogger
AIM Pages	Multiply	Tagged	FreeWebs
Bebo	Hi5	Friendster

7. Copy the Code and paste in a HTML widget at the position of your choice

Voila..Your-own personal picture galleray /Slide show is now up and fuctional for everyone to see and relish.Hope you liked this…