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Submitted By: Gath from Sudoku.com.au

No one wants a boring homepage. Text is cheap, what you want are PICS!

But how to do it? And what on earth is Flickr?
Flickr is a photo-sharing website, allowing you to store and display your photos for free. Registering is easy, and then loading your photos onto Flickr is reasonably quick.

If you already have a Flickr account, and have your photos displayed, then it is very easy to show one of them on your homepage. All you do is copy the URL of your picture, and paste it in the box marked 'Flickr Photo'.

The URL (Universal Resource Locator, if you wanted to know) is found here:


Just click 'Check Flickr and YouTube codes' and the picture should appear. If it doesn't, then your picture is most likely in a private area of Flickr, and you need to move it to a public area. If a photo is in a public area of Flickr, then you will not have to be logged in to your Flickr account to view the photo.



What if I have my photos stored somewhere else?
A more general way of adding photos to your homepage is through the image button, shown here.


Press this button, and you will get to add the details of your image

In the box marked 'Image URL', you put the full url of the image. In the above example, it is:
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en_au/images/logo.gif
Once you have put the image url in, the image will appear in the 'Preview' box. Click the 'Update' button and you are done!



OK,OK, now I want video!
YouTube makes it really easy to post videos on your site. Just go to the page of the YouTube video that you want, and find the 'Embed' code.


Copy this code, and then paste it in the box marked 'YouTube Video'. Click 'Check Flickr and YouTube codes' and the video will appear.



Adding a Widget (only for supporting members)
If you want total flexibility, then add a widget - so you can have new content daily without changing a thing.

Widgets allow you to get content from another site and place it on your page. An example of a widget is one that displays todays strip from your favourite comic strip. Here is an example of how to add the cartoon 'Dilbert' widget.

Go to http://widget.dilbert.com

1. Following the directions on the page, click the 'CLick Here for Todays Strip' button.
   
2. Click the 'Grab It' button.
   
3. Click the 'Embed' button.
   
4. You will then be shown code to embed in your page. Copy And Paste the code to the 'Widget Code' textbox on your page. You're Done!


To test that you have copied the widget code correctly, click the 'Test Widget' button.

There are many places to find widgets. Here is just a small sample:

• widgetbox.com
• widgipedia.com
• Google Gadgets
Note: As widgets are from other sites, we cannot help integrate them with sudoku.com.au or debug them if they do not work. 16 Comments
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Thanks, Gath. This helps - I think!!!lol  |  |

Gath - so there's no way of putting photos in if you dont have one of these outside photo storing thinga me bobs then? Like - you cant send if from your Kodak files ?  |  |

Col - correct. The photos have to be stored somewhere, and I haven't got the space/bandwidth at the moment for photo storage. Gath  |  |

Hello Gath I have e'mailed you for help but noticed I could also try here. I have uploaded about 6 photos on flickr but still can't seem to get them onto my page. I put them as private, if this isn't correct, how do I change it. Cheers, Anne  |  |

OK now... how is everyone changing there pic on the page and can you place them in order (how you want them to look ) when you open flickr?...I've tried to do the organize thing and I cant get it to stay ?  |  |

Oh dear Gath. Santa has to be very good to you. Thank you so much for everything you do for us. My regards to you and Kym.  |  |

Thanks Gath, as nal said, Santa should treat you as well as you treat us. Thanks for all of the hard work. Now if I can only add the pics I want to flickr it would be great, but they have a backload trying to fix problems, and I keep getting unsigned, therefore am not able to upload anything at the moment. I'll keep trying!  |  |

All best wishes and many thanks to Gath for his hard work on his very imaginative site. Making a living from creating world-wide friendship is a GOOD THING!to do. I am 'virtually' computer illiterate and feel I can't mangage flickrs yet, but would love a nice avatar! How do I go about this? 10/May/07 4:14 AM  |  |

the buttons on this help page do not boot up... so how do I get my page working? Is this a problem cos I use Firefox? 30/May/07 4:18 PM  |  |

The buttons don't work in IE either, but I can update through IE. Gath, is it possible to have all this working through Firefox? 30/May/07 4:38 PM  |  |

Gath: I will update my page. Then lines that were centered - end up aligned left. I play around trying to get them centered and I'll get a Home page too long - even if I cut out a line or attempted to make it smaller by changing a font size. The next thing I know the entire font is changed. More... 20/Sep/07 2:42 AM  |  |

Hi Gath, Is it possible to have more than one image on my page? I've tried using commas between flickr image numbers (didn't work), and I've tried to include images on the text portion (didn't work either). Is something broken, or am I not allowed more than one image? Thanks, Jenn 25/Apr/08 5:09 AM  |  |

Hi Gath, If you check this, please disregard my previous post. I've just discovered the link at the top of the page for uploading photos. feeling rather silly just now... Jenn 25/Apr/08 8:53 AM  |  |

Hi Gath. I have been followiing the instructions on this page regarding the post of youtube videos but have not been succesful. What else can I do? 11/Aug/08 12:22 PM  |  |

hello everybody in the sudoku land. I am not very experience with the p.c but I am good whith sudoku.I need your help 30/Oct/08 10:42 AM  |  |

Hello, I'm new. I joined this program because I like sudoku. What do we do here? 30/Nov/08 3:53 PM  |  |

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