Broken pictures when embedding Picasa Web Albums
When viewing your own albums, Picasa Web Albums offer a link that says "Embed in Blog/MySpace".
This gives you an HTML fragment that you can paste into your blog, MySpace page, or similar, which produces the following output:
Unfortunately, Google have not thought very hard about this, and consequently there are a good number of broken embedded albums appearing. The major problem is that the vital link that shows the album thumbnail contains "&" - which dependent on the blogging software used, may end up being transformed to something else. If that happens, the album displays with a broken picture as follows:
Google should have anticipated this problem, and produced a URL format that does not involve the ampersand character. For the moment the manual fix is to carefully inspect your HTML, and to check that the ampersand is either a single character, or at most singly encoded as "&", and not as "&".
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Actually, one way to avoid this problem is to simply post (or embed) your album in HTML mode.
I have found that by doing so, you often avoid other HTML problems, especially when posting to Blogger via Picasa (as it or you may accidently insert some code after the snap shot).
Note: If I were you I would turn on the word verification option on your blog, as spammers love hitting "fresh meat" bloggers with their "get animal love" ads and "buy this product" spam in the comment section.
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