The easy way to add images to your blog

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12/02/2006

Think adding images to your blog is painful? Check again. I'm smitten with Twango. This new file sharing site hosts my photos and gives me tools to post them to my blog as images, photo tickers, or slide shows, and I can even swap out my photos from my cell phone while on vacation - and notify my viewers automatically. I have different "channels" (think folders) on Twango for sorting images: fishing, crabbing, family, etc. Twango gives me "Twidgets," a couple lines of code that I point at one of my channels and I get a gorgeous photo display that's totally easy to maintain. And its all free.

Here's an example of a Twango "Twidget" - a photo ticker that's pointed at my "fishing" channel at https://www.twango.com/channel/KarinM.fishing. The code looks like this:

and the result is this photo ticker:

If someone likes one of the photos, they can click on it and see the full sized image on Twango. From there they can download the photo, make a comment, send a link to a friend, order a print... all the usual stuff.

To get a ticker in my blog, all I need to do is type my blog post in the Body of my Telligent "Write a Blog Post" window, then switch to HTML and paste in the Twidget code from Twango right where I want the photo ticker to display.

You can see an example of a slide show, another Twango Twidget, in my Testing my Twango Twidget post. That Twidget is pointing to my Color channel and shows a few dive photos. The images are big but adjusting the size isn't hard to do.

The easiest thing to do is put a simple image in your blog. Go to the Twango page showing the photo you want and click on the image. You'll see the code you need pop right up on the right side of your screen, in two sizes to choose from. Copy and paste it into your blog post, using the HTML key. The picture of my cat below, is a nice size to drop into the side margin of a blog.

The code I grabbed from Twango looks like this:

And the image looks like this:

The easy way to add images to your blog

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