How to Create a Slideshow with Photobucket for Facebook

Hi Kidz, well I'm here to tell you how to create a slideshow with Photobucket of things you sell (or whatever you like) and then to drop it into your Facebook page. There may be other ways to do it and other places to host your photos, but this is the way I did it and was asked how I did it so I'm telling it here! First you need a free Photobucket account. Once you have set up your photobucket account and have created a folder on your computer (or external hardrive or where ever you keep your pics) where you will have all the pics stored that you want to have in your slideshow, you can then create your slideshow. In my own folder of pics I included one or two shots of each item I have for sale on Bonanzle.



Then in Photobucket make an album called something like “all the things I sell on Bonanzle” or somesuch. On the left hand side of the photobucket page is where you can make your albums. Where it says "add a new album". (see bottom left of screenshot 1) Once you have your album named and have clicked "Save" it opens and you can then upload your entire folder (from your computer or external storage device) up to this album. Where it says “Upload Images & Video” (see screenshot 1 again). Click on “Choose Files” It’s sort of self explanatory if you know how to find the folder you want to upload etc, which I assume you do as you have to upload files to Bonanzle.



It takes awhile to upload the whole folder, you will have to open your target folder (on your computer or external storage device)and select all pics and then click on "Open" - (with Windows XP which I have, you open the folder where you have your pics and select the first pic, hold down the 'shift' key and select the last pic. All your pics should now be higlighted.) Now click on "open" and your pics should start uploading onto Photobucket (see screenshot 2). You can watch it uploading, again if there are a lot of pics to upload go have some coffee or do something else.




When it’s done you then have a page where each pic is listed and you can enter titles, descriptions, and tags. (see screenshot 3) I went ahead and entered all this data copying and pasting from my Bonanzle titles and descriptions, (good thing I only currently have 29 items!) I also took the time to enter the tags as these are what google searches for.

You can see mine at photobucket in the left column.



Click on the link on my Facebook profile (go to Facebook and find the profile for Kelleen Doyle) (see screenshot 4) & click the link retro-chick/Things we sell on Bonanzle
3:16pm Aug 15 and it will take you to my Photobucket page. (also see screenshot 5 for a list of my tags on photobucket)


When thinking up tags just think of any word or phrase that someone might use in a google search that will take them to your stuff. You don’t have to enter titles, descriptions or tags to make a slideshow, you can skip that part, but my feeling is that it is important to get your stuff out there as much as possible anywhere you can, so take advantage of every opportunity to be able to do that.



Once you have entered your titles, descriptions and tags for each picture and saved your album you can go back later and simply add new photos as you add new items to Bonanzle and re-post or re-"share" the entire album on Facebook.





Once you’ve entered all that info for your pics (It seems to automatically save periodically as it goes along which is good because this can be a lengthy process.)
then look at the bottom of the page where it says “return to album” (see screenshot 6).

Now, at the top of the page it says "20 of 20 images have uploaded, Now you can...." (or however may images you personally have just uploaded)



underneath click on where it says "Share your Album", (see screenshot 7)







now you will see (screenshot 8)
that there are some buttons under the heading

"Share an album slideshow",

under that is

"1. Choose where to share this album:"

click on the Facebook button





Next I typed in my bonanzle booth url.

http://bonanzle.com/booths/whateveryourboothsnameis

(mine is http:/bonanzle.com/booths/retrochick )
in the area where it says “whats on your mind” (see screenshot 9)and then my own little blurb about Sweet Past Times and what wonderful and unique stuff I have.

Then click "share" and it should show up on your Facebook profile!! Walla! Like magic!

If you have a business page you can do this by copying and pasting the url from photobucket (again left side of page where it says "URL pick your own!)


just copy the html code in the little window (see screenshot 10) and paste into your business page “whats on your mind”…… and add your info as above. Hope this helps … If there are any questions, please post a comment and please do leave any other comments for me and if there is anything else we can explore together that you would like to know how to do, I will do my best to figure it out and share it with you, just leave a comment to that effect!

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