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Flickr Tips – How to use HTML to Format your Profile and Image Descriptions

October 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Flickr

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to publish different tips on how to get the best from Flickr. Here is the first set. This shows you how to format your profile and your image descriptions. In other words, if you want to bold, italic, underline or even add hyperlinks to other sites, maybe different blogs you run or want to recommend.

To include a Flickr photo or video in your profile, copy and paste its URL between square brackets, for example:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanwalsh/3620775571/]

To include a set icon, do this:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanwalsh/sets/72157619952218624/]

To format any text you want to add in Flickr, for example, in your profile or when describing an image, you can use these HTML tags:

HTML Tag Attributes

<a href=”URL”>link</a> ‘href’, ‘target’, ‘rel’, ‘name’

<strong>strong</strong>

<b>bold</b>

<blockquote>

blockquote

</blockquote>

<em>emphasis</em>

<i>italic</i>

<img src=”URL”> ’src’, ‘width’, ‘height’, ‘alt’, ‘title’

<u>underlined</u>

<s>strike</s>

<del>deleted</del>

If you know other ways to get the best from Flickr, please add them below.

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  • Thanks for getting all this information together in one place Ivan. It would be interesting to see what profiles different people are able to put together from the paltry HTML that Flickr makes available. My own profile is here:

    http://www.flickr.com/people/stevenjgarner/

    .... and uses many of these HTML techniques (including a link to "surf" my Photostream "Cover Flow" style using your suggestion. Thanks.

    Another aspect of Flickr worth blogging about is the different ways users can publish their photos. I have just started to publish some of my photos on both CNN iReport and WikiMedia (to support my edits on Wikipedia and Google maps). These are huge publication opportunities for aspiring photographers, as most of Wikipedia remains unillustrated. There are millions of creative commons photos on Flickr, and only a very small fraction of them make it through to Wikipedia and Google maps. I would love to hear about any other publication ideas Flickr users might have.
  • Hi Steven,

    Thanks for that tip. The links you sent are great. I've started using some GreaseMoneky scripts to batch upload photos to different groups; this has saved some time but it's error prone.

    Will keep an eye on your sites for sure.

    Regards,

    Ivan
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