How to insert images in your blog
This is probably the most frequently asked question of all time!
The solution is not difficult, but you must have access to a webserver and know how to use FTP (file transfer protocol). If you've got both, the rest is relatively straightforward.
If you lack access to a webserver, you cannot place images on your blog at this time.
Click here for free hosted webserver space: free web servers but there are many that will not serve photos to web pages to your blog, so you may need to experiment. As of this writing, Photobucket is one free service that works well for this purpose. Photobucket offers a free and even easier and faster photo hosting site called Tinypic. Check it out, it's great.
1) Using your preferred graphics application (such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash) create your web-optimized graphic element, making a note of its dimension in pixels. For the purpose of this example, let's suppose that the name of the graphic element is "picture.jpg", 100 pixels wide and 50 pixels high.
2) Upload the image to a directory on your webserver, in this case let's just say that you have put it on: http://www.yourwebsite.com in the directory called images.
3) If you are using the Windows operating system and IE Explorer version 5.5 or later, you can insert the image into your blog using the control panel interface by clicking on the Insert Image icon and then entering the URL of the image in the indicated field and clicking OK. Otherwise, if you know basic html, you can place the image in the template or within a post, as you wish. In the case of our example, here's is what the tag should look like:
<IMG SRC="http://www.yourwebsite.com/images/picture.jpg" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=50>
You may place the image tag in the HTML of your template (accessed by clicking on the manage template link in the top menu bar) or in the text editor of your post.
To understand how to align your images on the page and in relation to any text that you place next to it, check out this link.
If you follow all the above instructions and your images still don't appear, it is very likely that the free server that you have chosen does not allow the posting of images off-site.
Last modified 21 Nov 2002 - 12:28
The solution is not difficult, but you must have access to a webserver and know how to use FTP (file transfer protocol). If you've got both, the rest is relatively straightforward.
If you lack access to a webserver, you cannot place images on your blog at this time.
Click here for free hosted webserver space: free web servers but there are many that will not serve photos to web pages to your blog, so you may need to experiment. As of this writing, Photobucket is one free service that works well for this purpose. Photobucket offers a free and even easier and faster photo hosting site called Tinypic. Check it out, it's great.
1) Using your preferred graphics application (such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash) create your web-optimized graphic element, making a note of its dimension in pixels. For the purpose of this example, let's suppose that the name of the graphic element is "picture.jpg", 100 pixels wide and 50 pixels high.
2) Upload the image to a directory on your webserver, in this case let's just say that you have put it on: http://www.yourwebsite.com in the directory called images.
3) If you are using the Windows operating system and IE Explorer version 5.5 or later, you can insert the image into your blog using the control panel interface by clicking on the Insert Image icon and then entering the URL of the image in the indicated field and clicking OK. Otherwise, if you know basic html, you can place the image in the template or within a post, as you wish. In the case of our example, here's is what the tag should look like:
<IMG SRC="http://www.yourwebsite.com/images/picture.jpg" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=50>
You may place the image tag in the HTML of your template (accessed by clicking on the manage template link in the top menu bar) or in the text editor of your post.
To understand how to align your images on the page and in relation to any text that you place next to it, check out this link.
If you follow all the above instructions and your images still don't appear, it is very likely that the free server that you have chosen does not allow the posting of images off-site.