A question about a Flickr badge
Submitted by reeganbreu on Tue, 2007-03-13 04:44.
I'm thinking of creating a flickr account for our organization and posting a number of photos relating to our green building capital campaign. I would like to use a flickr badge on our site, but am wondering if anyone has had any problems implementing the badge within a commercial website content management system. We are currently redesigning our website using Ektron CMS400.NET, but I'm not sure if it will work (and won't be able to test it out for about a week). In the meantime, does anyone have any experience with this?
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I don't have any experience
I don't have any experience with this, so I can't help with any precision. I will say that the badges are just HTML and CSS, so as long as you can copy-and-paste code into your new site, I imagine you will be OK.
Incidentally, the badges as presented aren't valid (X)HTML (they put a <style> element in the body of the document which is a no-no), so if you or your webmaster or your CMS cares about that, you have to do a little more than just copy-and-paste.
Hi Steve, Thanks! I just
Hi Steve,
Thanks! I just found this mini-tutorial on cleaning up the Flickr badge coding to make it W3C compliant. http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/fickr_badge_w3c_valid/ I thought that I'd share it in case anyone is interested. Thanks again for responding.
Oh, cool! Thanks for the
Oh, cool! Thanks for the link. I don't read it regularly, but Verlee's blog can be a great web design resource. Another thing I like about this is that it shows you don't have to just take or leave code like the Flickr badge; with a little poking around (and tolerance for initial failures and frustrations) you can often customize the "copy-and-paste" code.
Just beat it with a rock until it works, as someone once said.