I’ve never really paid a huge amount of attention to Flickr, and even less to the Flickr API. I’ve had to rectify this recently as a site I’m working on needs to have an easily updatable slideshow as a fairly prominent element.

Flickr was the platform that we decided to go with to upload the photos to due to the fact it’s pretty nice and easy to use and there are a huge range of pre-existing apps etc that you can exploit to do pretty much anything you can imagine.

Flickr provides a standard way of embedding photos/photostreams, although it is via an i-frame, is fairly clunky and not very customisable – it also looks pretty crap if you want to make it sit with the rest of the site’s design. I explored various methods of calling the relevant photostream to the … Read More »

Righty, I realise that to date this blog has been a)infrequent and b)fairly boring and useless, I intend to remedy this.

The blogs I find most useful are those that offer advice, tutorials and point you in the direction of useful things. As I spend every day doing web design and development in some shape or form I feel that it is probably this that I can offer something in the way of useful content about.

We’ll see…

Anyway, my plan is to blog at least once a week with something useful.