Linking to albums stored in Picasa.com

Posting Photo albums to your website.

The idea is to have your members create their albums and send you the link (URL) that points to it. When they update their album the photos the updated album appears on your website.

I may have to write a book to explain this... I do it in my sleep, but never tried to explain it.

Here's an example of a picasa photo album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kurtzinpa/ElysianFieldsJune07

Here's a web page where I have albums stored from Picasa (several different formats) and from a Kodak website. I prefer the picasa, but they both work.

http://www.dressage4kids.com/files/2006/linkedphotopage.html

Once someone has a picasa album and sends you the link (URL), you can post the link and then whenever they update the photos the update is what is displayed at the link.

I much prefer the slide show format, although the collage is cute also. To imbed the slide show the album owner has to click on the picasa tool for that purpose and forward the "code" to you. Then you embed that code on your website. (the tool to do that is in your website software some place. For FrontPage it's in the 'webtools - advanced' dropdown. I suggest you begin by setting up a Picasa photo account for yourself and playing around with it.

To share your photos or receive notification when your friends share photos, get your own free Picasa Web Albums account.

It's the easiest if you have people do their own albums and send the URL to you to be posted. An alternate is they send the photos to you and you post them in an album or albums.