This is the easy peasy guide to adding a Slideshow to your Blog or Website. It’s done using Flickr, so all you need are the images!

If you already have a Yahoo account or a Gmail account, you can use either of these to sign in to Flickr. Otherwise, it’s easy to create an account.

1. Create an account with Flickr (or sign in if you have one)
2. Upload your pictures
3. Add Title and Description and Tag them
4. Set the privacy to ‘Public’
5. Set the Licence (what rights others have to the images) – see Creative Commons to see what kind of licencing you can do
6. Add your pictures to a Set
7. Start a Slideshow of the Set
8. Click on the Share button in the upper-right corner of the Slideshow
9. Copy the Embed code to your clipboard
10. Paste the code to your Blog post

Here’s a slideshow example so you can see what it will look like. This one uses a WordPress platform and the code is simply pasted into the post in the HTML editor.

You can also create your own Flickr Badge which can be used to brand your slideshow with your company logo for example.

For WordPress users, there is also a Flickr Photo Album Plugin which will give you more control over the look and feel of your slideshow and you can put one in the sidebar.

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