Slideshows on Blogger From Picasa

Google Blogs are a great way to get information across to people using multimedia.  You can embed video from YouTube, audio from Soundcloud, and slideshows from Flickr and Picasa. 

To keep it all inside of Google, here's how to put a Picasa slideshow on your Google Blogger.

Here is also an example of the embed code.

Important parts are highlighted in bold.   

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F109680285221617572906%2Falbumid%2F5765576586066230081%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCLGesqm-x8a78gE%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

What You Can Do:

Change the width and height to either:

width = "600" height = "400" for landscape picture sets

width = "600" height = "800" for portrait picture sets

If you separate the landscape photos from the portraits and put them in two separate slideshows, that works even better.  It's all about coming up with a way of doing things that is effective, consistent, and efficient. 

Limitation:  
Slideshows using the ".SWF" format won't show on iPads or on iPhones.

Solution:
Google updates its Picasaweb slideshow to HTML-5.  

Or - Use Flickr to embed slideshow.  Tutorial coming soon.


Or the latest solution.  Still works with a Picasa Album.
http://www.slidemypics.com/