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Until the Pageflakes team develop a panel for this, the best way to include an image on your page is to use the Web Page panel and enter the address of the image itself (not the page containing it) so that the picture appears as if it were a web page.

This technique can be used for any web image. First go to the web site, blog or gallery where the one you want is located. If you in a gallery or web album, the thumbnail may be too small to use so click on that to access the larger image. Then right click on the image.

Select Copy Image Location (in Firefox). Internet Explorer uses will have to right click and select Properties at the foot of the list, then highlight the Address as shown in the example below. Then copy that - a tedious process and maybe in IE7 Microsoft will catch up with their open source competitor! Note that in IE, Copy Shortcut may not give the right result!

Having acquired the web address of your image, you can now enter it in the Web Page panel.

A (possibly truncated) address will appear as the title too. In Edit mode, a little cautious use of the mouse should enable you to change that.

Another way to add an image would be to use the Flickr panel.

The default setting offers 'Interesting' images in a 3x3 block. Click on more options.

Tags are useful things. Try a word related to your course, or what you wish to include. Alternatively, set up a free account with Flickr and upload your own images there. (That is outside the scope of this project but contact me for help if you are interested).

The 'flowers' tag worked well. the heading can also be edited.

Illustrated below is a single image panel, featuring one of a series from my own Flickr gallery.

Both 3x3 and single image panels provide back and forward arrows (not shown here) to allow browsing of all the images in that selection.

These are probably the neatest way to feature images to suit your requirements. there may well be further developments, though, so check for new Flakes from time to time.