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New To This

February 19, 2008

As the title suggests I am new to this blogging thing but having been invited by a fellow idiot, I thought I’d give it a go.
Now what does one write about on these thing’s I asked myself, before embarking on such a venture(no point having a blog if you ain’t got nowt to write about) and then whilst setting this thing up the answer presented it self.
Whilst in the process of setting this blog up I found out I could link up to my Flickr account and have my photo’s displayed in a little box in the sidebar, excellent I thought that’ll be fun to play around with.
And so I went ahead full steam trying to figure out how this little display box worked, I think I said something about this being a fun thing to do, boy was I wrong. Just follow the instruction’s simple, all I needed was the URL for my RSS feed link, the instruction’s said and I quote “Your RSS feed can be found on your Flickr homepage. Scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see the Feed link and copy that into the box above.” do you think I could find it, so after scrolling up and down several times and even resorting to squinting at the screen in the vain hope it would magicaly appear and much swearing later, I had to finally admit defeat and consult the Flickr help page, not so much a traditional help page but more of a post a question and hope someone out there has the answer you are looking for. So after several pages of questions and answers, there it was, like a shining light sent down from the heaven’s the answer to my question, the RSS feed link is a little orange button(of coarse how obvious!?), there’s me looking for a text link saying RSS feed.
So I hit the button found the URL and Bob’s your uncle I now have my photo’s on my blog, all I need to do now is figure out how the rest of this blog thing works, so many options so little time.

Thanks to the idiot who got me into this, I had such a great time.

3 comments

  1. Yippee, another Idiot!

    Re the Flickr thingy, you could always have asked me… not that I would have told you of course.
    And you can also embed photos from Flickr in your blog posts, in various sizes. You can find all the relevant html at Flickr (click on the “All Sizes” button of any photo and scroll to bottom of page).

    I shall now be expecting to see some really penetrating, profound, and totally stupid posts of course.


  2. Um… a p.s. to my previous comment…

    You can also write a blog post actually in Flickr and send it here complete with accompanying photo.

    First you need to set up a connection from Flickr to the blog: go to your account page and click on “extending flickr” and you’ll see an option “your blogs”. Click the edit link and it’ll tell you how to set the connection up.

    Having done that (and send a test post to make sure it works!) you can then click on the “blog this” link above the photo on the individual photo page and hey presto, you’re done (well, you’ll prob’ly want to write something as well of course, but you get the drift).


  3. Oh no, another idiot…nice to see you fotddarren :)



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