CC continues to confuse me with so many options. I'd like to use a CC (non-CC0 or public domain) licensed photo as part of my blog template header. Do I really need to put the attribution and link in my template, because that will make my web site look ridiculous.. Any ideas?
Never forget that you can try to contact the creator of the image if you are unclear about such things! If you don't want to have the attribuition in your blog header, shoot them a message and ask if they'd be ok with you putting that in your "About" page or at the bottom of you sidebar or some other such place. Also, be careful not to remove any license-pertaining metadata from the image.
People I have contacted (unless they are a professional photographer) have been excited that I wanted to use their photo or sound clips. Makes their day, makes my day :)