I’ve recently discovered the joys of flickr (yeah I know, but I had 12 giggs of photo’s with Fotki, it was hard to move!) and I’ve been looking to integrate my use of flickr with my blogs and for use in my clients websites.
First up is flickr slideshow using javascript – it’s nice and light and works well. On the downside it doesn’t look all that amazing and you can’t change the background colours. Oh, and it doesn’t work on iPhone’s either..poo.
Next up, Paul Stamatiou presents two ways of getting your flickr pics embedded in your site using iFrame or object tags – again, similar to the above, they won’t work on your iPhone but they work a bit better in other browsers as they are less clunky.
Still under development (and I couldn’t get it to work) is Flickrshow – it sounds promising and worth keeping an eye on for the future.
Pictobrowser is a nice flash based gallery that is very easy to set up as it has a configuration gui built into the gallery itself and you can tweak colours, positioning and other settings to get a look close to what you want on your site. It is flash though.. :/
Now for the official flickr slideshow – again it is flash, but being offered by flickr it should be better supported and it works really well, having a full screen option too. You simply navigate to a set or gallery in flickr, click the slideshow button and then click share to grab a link or embed code to post on your site. You may have to tweak this to get it to the right size, so it’s not perfect for newbies. See how it works here:official Flickr slideshow link.
So these seem to be the options at the moment – I’m waiting for a javascipt gallery that will just flick through pictures without any interface controls, so that I could add it as an icon or decorative piece in a website – so I’m a little disappointed at the lack of support for the iOS safari browser for this reason too.
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