It isn’t that I didn’t know about the module, it’s that I forgot about it. Last night, I suddenly remembered it and thought that it would be great for some of my California Missions pages. In trying to find and post photos of Mission San Francisco de Solano and Mission Santa Ines, I learned a few things about the flickr module that I didn’t know before.
The search on the flickr site doesn’t work the same way as the search on the flickr module. This was pretty annoying since I could see many photos of the mission on flickr but the module would only come up with one picture! A quick search in the Squidu forums revealed that the flickr module only brings up photos with Creative Commons licensing. Ah, okay. So I guess I’ll pick the photos myself then…
But then, if I choose the photos myself, I run the risk of getting the wrath of the photographers. Sure, they made their photo public but I’m putting them on a commercial site but it links back to their photo but I didn’t ask for permission! Another thread in the forum has a big discussion about what is proper netiquette with regards to flickr photos. In short, the safest route is to ask for permission at all times. Offer to provide a link back to them, too. I think it’s time for me to go back through my modules and spend some time doing it right.
Lastly, pet peeve. The number of photos across a lens depends on your browser! This is pretty annoying since I prefer not to inundate my readers with tons of photos, but rather, two rows of photos is enough to get the gist of things. But if it’s going to be six photos across on one browser and seven across on another, how many photos should I put in the module? I guess I’ll go with six, but it just doesn’t look as good when your second row is missing two photos.
