This is part of my Flickr tools series. I have already looked at how to integrate Flickr with your RapidWeaver or Wordpress site, how to integrate a Flickr photo map on your site and how to quickly create a Flickr badge for your site. Let’s now turn to other nifty integration tools which are not particularly designed for either of Wordpress or RapidWeaver, but that work well on both or for that matter on all html-compliant website development solutions.

123Flickr

123Flickr is a gallery creating utility that generates code for you to insert a cute Flickr gallery in your website. It is available at 123Flickr.com. It is not restricted to your own pictures, and you can create galleries from any Flickr picture set or Flickr user you have an interest in. It does not work (yet) with Flickr collections.

First, you will have to find a user or a picture set that you like in Flickr. Let’s take our Countries in Colors Flickr account as an example. You simply copy the name of the user (in our case countries in colors) and paste it into the username dialog that appears on the first page at 123Flickr.

Second you determine the number of pictures that should appear in your gallery. Be mindful not to add too many images as this slows down loading when you will access your page.

Third, you receive a rather long string of code which you copy and paste into any styled or html page on RapidWeaver (it also works on plugins that are compliant with the styled mode, such as carousel), or in any page, post or on your sidebar.php file in Wordpress. I suggest you preview your gallery before you copy and paste the code, as you will need enough pictures to fill in the gallery space: look at the various examples below.

The problem is that 123Flickr will create a gallery holder that will often not have the proper height and width. It will not adjust automatically to the number of pictures you put in the gallery. There is fortunately a way around it. In the code provided by 123Flickr, you can adjust width and height parameters. You must play around a little with it, until you find the correct settings for your gallery, as shown below. Note that you must enter your parameters twice in the code.

I have added html “< center >” tags before and after the code to center in this page. The result is not stunning but it is still very nice, with nifty transparency effects. I find the image display a bit on the slow side, but otherwise it is a very nice solution to add a small gallery to your website.

Slideflickr

Slideflickr touts that it “will help you create and embed Flickr slideshows in less than 10 seconds”. Simply type in a username, user, group, or a set URL on Slideflickr’s homepage, hit enter, and you receive a url to copy and paste on your website. When entering the “countries in colors” username, the result looks like this:

The standard size of the slideshow window is a 500 by 500 pixels square, but you can easily customize this by modifying the simple code you pasted by for example reducing it to 400 by 400 as I did in the above example. Better still, you can click on the “advanced options” tab and customize the appearance of your slideshow in various ways: window size, customize text messages, background color, speed, enter a custom logo text and url link, or even add a background music.

But Slideflickr’s versatility does not end there: you can also select the content of your slideshow by set, tags or favorites. The only downside of Slideflickr is that it is but a nice interface to Flickr’s standard slideshow. It does not create any new slideshow template or transitions.

Still, it is a very easy to use and free slideshow creator and I would recommend it to Wordpress users. RapidWeaver users may consider a more powerful alternative which I reviewed before: RapidFlickr.

Related posts:

1. Yet another way to simply put your latest Flickr pictures on your website
2. Integrating a Flickr photo map on your website
3. Adding social links on your website: Flickr badge
4. Integrating Flickr pictures on your Wordpress or RapidWeaver site
5. Tools for developing small websites

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