Options for linking Picasa into your Blog

There are various places on your blog where you can put items from Picasa - and different options from Picasa too (individual pictures, albums, slideshows). This article describes them, and links to articles with specific instructions about each combination.

Where to put Picasa items on your blog

Previously, I looked at how Picasa manages pictures, and the advantages and disadvantages of using each type of Picasa item in your blog.

In short, you can choose where to put Picasa pictures, album links or slideshows in your Blog.

Options include:

inside an individual post,
as a gadget in your sidebar
as a gadget in some other part of the blog that is set up to take gadgets (eg the header or footer)

The advantanges and disadvantages of each position are just the same as they are for other types of item (widget, diagram, map, graph, spreadsheet, etc) that you might put on your blog, ie they're not specific to Picasa items, and they vary a lot depending on your blog's design and niche. So I'm not going in to them here..

How to put Picasa items into your Blogger blog

(May of the principles here will work with Picasa and other types of blogging software - eg Wordpress, Typepad, etc - but these articles are targetted to Blogger).

	Inside a Blog Post	In a Gadget
As an individual picture	Putting a Picture into a page on Blogger	Inserting a Picture as a Gadget.
As an Album link	Linking to a Picasa album in a Blogger post	Linking to a Picasa album in your sidebar (or other gadget)
As a Slideshow	Putting a Slideshow (from a Picasa album) into a Blogger post	Putting a Slideshow (from a Picasa album) into your sidebar