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Permalink Reply by Edward Llewelyn on October 26, 2009 at 12:14

Am new to this site so I might be sounding stupid if it's up here already. If so, can someone give me directions please?

Thanks
Ed

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Permalink Reply by National Theatre Wales on October 26, 2009 at 12:50

Hi Edward. There's a couple of ways I'm aware of. The most current approach on here is to create a blog post - that's what a lot of people do - you can paste as many images as you want into a blog by clicking the little camera item at the top. However, I think there's a new way that's been added recently too. In your status box at the top of your profile you can click to create a link, where you could link to a photofile in flickr, or to your CV if it's online etc. There may be other ways. Tom Beardshaw and Carl Morris - who are the designers of this site will be able to let you know if you message them on here. All the best, John

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Permalink Reply by Edward Llewelyn on October 29, 2009 at 4:11

Cheers John for the message. Will look into it.

Ed

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Permalink Reply by Tom Beardshaw on October 29, 2009 at 4:32

Hi Edward.

A really cool way to display your photos is to use Flickr. If you put all your photos into a "set", they you can create a slideshow that you can put into a post. Here's how:

Just go to the set and click on "Slideshow". Then you'll get to a really nice slideshow interface (no one does photos better than Flickr!). In the top right hand corner of the screen you'll see a link called "Share". When you click that, you'll get a 'link' code and an 'embed' code. Copy the embed code and paste it into your message - as John says, a blog post is a great way to share your content on here.

Here's a demo:
I went on a trip to Havana recently, and I uploaded some photos to Flickr, and put them into a set called "Cuba" - here's a link to the Cuba set. If I click on 'Slideshow" and grab the embed code and paste it in below, this is what we get:


Tadaaa! You can change the size as well if you're into tinkering with the code - just change the values for width and height (they occur twice, to handle the peculiarities of different browsers).

The slideshow is a great way to display photos - and you can go full screen with it to get the maximum visual impact.

Hope this helps. We are planning to create a new help section on the site soon - once the launch busyness is finished. We'll be sure to include this topic.

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