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We at SABA are a big fan of the Flickr photo sharing service. It's fast, it's cool, and most importantly, it's free to use. We encourage all of our members to upload photos that they take at community events there. Including photos in your blog posts is easy, and I'm going to show you how to do it. For my first exmaple, I am going to use the photo found http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmuth/477848952. While that gigantic URL looks a bit scary, all you really have to concern yourself with is the number at the end: 477848952. Now that you have the number of your photo, all you need to is insert the following piece of text into your post: [flickr-photo:id=477848952] And this is what we'll get: Easy, isn't it? But that size is a bit large. You can only fit a single image at a time on the screen. Well, here's how you can make an image smaller: [flickr-photo:id=477848952,size=m] gives you: [flickr-photo:id=477848952,size=m] and [flickr-photo:id=477848952,size=s] makes the image tinier still: [flickr-photo:id=477848952,size=s] Now that you understand how to link to single images, what happens when you want to link to a set? For this example, I'm going to work with the set of pictures found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmuth/sets/72157600158438654/. First, be sure to look for that number again. Here you will see that it is 72157600158438654. Now, you're going to write a slightly different tag: [flickr-photoset:id=72157600158438654,size=m] And the image you'll get is the image for that entire set: [flickr-photoset:id=72157600158438654,size=m] Clicking on the above image will take you to the page for the entire set. That's about all there is including images in your blog posts. If you run into any problems, feel free to reply to this blog post or contact our webmaster. Happy photo sharing! Bookmark/Search this post with: |
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Could you take this one step
Could you take this one step further. I would like to add an item on the main menu... Photo Gallery... As photo's sets for events come in the are SABA related they could be added to a menu blog, and that way they will be easy for first time visitors to locate.. It will also keep them consolidated. This is exactly what you did on the Save Ardmore Site.
Actually, the link on the
Actually, the link on the SAC website is a page which I have to manually maintain. Not fun.
Instead, I've just added a "Photos" category for blog posts (and changed this blog post to be in that category).
Once we get a few posts of photos, I'll set up a menu item that just links to that category.
Currently I can not post
Currently I can not post something to the Photo Section. Will it be possible for a certain number of SABA members who are able to update, add, or remove other items on the Main Menu other than just the blog section.
REVISION : Wait a minute I just saw that you added Photo to the blog posting section... dah. let me try to address my photo posting concern...