Keeping things fresh, adding new content and providing a little eye candy in the process makes coming to your blog an interesting experience.
The last post here at the Lab talked about using flickr slide shows to add a collection of large images to a blog post without taking up additional bandwidth or storage space on your hosting account.
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Many of you are already have a Flickr account. Did you know you can use your Flickr account to enhance your blog or website?
With a Pro account for $25 a year you can have unlimited uploads and unlimited sets of images. It is easy to upload and manage images and once they are uploaded you can easily organize those images into sets.
There is a slide show option for showing images in a set. When you click that option the set opens a new window with large images for viewing. It displays a URL to the slide show. (I would recommend you upload images at least 1024 X 768) The free account will size them down to this if they are large.
Large Images for your Blog Post
This is a really cool feature for blog posts.
- Take photos of local attraction (building, park, event, listing, issue, etc.)
- Upload the photos to flickr]
- Create a set for those images
- Write your blog post
- Include an image and a link to the slide show of the set
This provides you a way to get really large images on a blog post without sacrificing bandwidth or load time from your own hosting.
It makes your posts more interesting by providing detailed images of the topic.
Here is a quick example of how this works
Cactus in Bloom
All over the Sonoran desert cactus of different size color and varieties are in bloom this spring. They bring a special kind of color to the desert. This image is a pair of buckhorn cholla taken late in the evening. To see more images of cactus in bloom click the flower or the link to: Sonoran Cactus in Bloom.
If you want to try this out you can get a free flickr account. The free account only allows 3 sets to be created, but that’s enough to get you started and test it out.
Bonus Gem: Create your flickr account name something like TucsonAZRealEstate. It appears in the URL for your images.
The only downside to this: Your images aren’t indexed by Google linked to your site. If this is something you don’t want to give up and bandwidth and load times are not an issue there is a way to do it and still not slow down the load time for the blog or post.
You don’t need a flickr account and all the images in the group will be indexed.
I’ll show you how to accomplish this in another post.
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Disqus your Comments
By Dave Smith Friday May 30, 2008
I went to the Disqus website and created an account and set up two blogs and installed the Wordpress plugin here at the lab. Then I got to thinking before I clicked remove all comments, just what does that mean remove all comments? Therefore I made a strategic decision, this Lab experiment would be done on one of my lab rats and not on the lab itself.