Flickr

Flickr is a web site that hosts its members images, either photographs, scanned images or digitally produced graphics. There are two levels of membership - free or pro. It's probably best to start out with free membership and then, if you gety very enthiusiastic, upgrade.

A free membership has a 20MB upload limit per month and 200 images. Your images can be assigned to 3 different 'sets'. A pro account costs $24.95US a year for 2GB monthly upload limit, unlimited storage, unlimited 'sets' and other stuff.

Once you are registered, you upload images by browsing your files and clicking a button. You can give your images titles and write a journal entry to accompany them. Other Flickr members can add comments. You can join groups that have similar interests to yours and add your image to their pools. This will allow you images to be seen by more people. Make sure that you join the Every Day Matters group.

In Your Account you are able to add details of your blogs (it is possible to list more than one). Once you have set this up you can then write blog entries which will be sent to your site, together with a link to your images on Flickr. The advantage of doing it this way is that you are not using space on your blog site to store graphic files, which can sometimes be quite large. Once the entry has been sent you can fine tune it at your blog site.

Less relevant for our purposes perhaps but nifty: For those who have camera phones equiped with email capability, in Your Account you can set up addresses to enable you to send images by email to your Flickr photostream and also on to your blog. The instructions on the page are simple and easy to follow. You will be moblogging in no time at all.

Yahoogroup/photos: explanation to come.

.mac: explanation to come.

Easy Image Manipulation Options

1. in Flickr - click the image you want. once you're on the image page look at the top bar immediately above the image and click on "all sizes" choose the images that is closest to size you need. copy the html and post it in the html section of your post. fine tune it by dragging and resizing in the compose view of your post.

2. Resize your photographs online with Resizr

If the size of the image that you are uploading matters to you

- you are on dial-up

- you have a free account with upload limits

- you want your page to open up quickly inspite of the images

- you do not want people to make photo prints of your images

you should resize the image to just the size you need for your blog

Resizr you to resize an image whether from your computer or an online source to exactly the no. of pixels you require. You choose the height or the width constraint and it automatically reduces/increases proportionately. It also gives you the option to rotate the image.