Spirit Hands

I have been playing around with ideas for a way of displaying my photography on my own website. I don't have an overall plan for it yet but I wanted to test out a few ways of displaying images without doubling my efforts. I post many of my experiences via flickr and was searching for a viable and simple way of exporting those images from there.

My first thought was to link them directly, but coding every individual image takes up time. Then I thought about linking to the simple little slideshow option displayed on the flickr pages. This again wasn't ideal, but if I was able to code the slideshow into an iframe tag in HTML code, then I have something much like what I want. As you can see I have linked my Top 50 set from flickr into this blog post. This worked beautifully in Firefox and Internet Explorer and will be using once I get my website up to task!

The beauty of doing it this way is that all you have to do is link to your preferred set. Additionally I have several automated sets on flickr which I can add images to by tagging specific photos in my flickr stream.

There are some drawbacks however. A potential visitor to your site could easily click away from your website and the background of your website must be set to black. The options for the flickr slideshow are limited.

This is the code I used to display the above slideshow.

iframe src="http://flickr.com/photos/rbs/sets/72157609409001284/show/"
width="500"
height="312"
scrolling="no"
frameborder="0"
marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0"
http://flickr.com/photos/rbs/sets/72157609409001284/show/
/iframe