Picture Bloggin' ?

[part of our ongoing 'U.B. Bloggin/Learnin' program]

Some of our new bloggers have asked... "How do I add pictures to my posts?"

Like this...

Unfortunately, at the moment Blogger.com doesn't support (easy) picture posting in our blogs. [Give 'em time -- no doubt in the future they'll facilitate picture posting too.]

So here's my simplest advice (esp. for Microsoft Internet Explorer users):

• Find an existing picture already on the web.
• Make sure it's ok to use it at your blog. [That is, don't violate copyright laws -- which is a separate topic all by itself. In most cases, common sense and a conscience will help guide you. In most cases, the pictures you'd like to add to your blog are people you know and/or their logos... and they'd be easy to get permissions from.]
• You need to know the exact URL for the particular existing picture (example). But how do you know the exact URL when you just see a picture in a webpage? (example) Easy. Just RIGHT-click the pic, and choose PROPERTIES. Notice the URL is shown. [Highlighting through that URL and copying it, is a handy thing so you can later paste it into your code.] Caveat: If it's a long URL, you may not be seeing the whole thing, unless you highlight all the way through it.
• Now, as you're writing your post and hoping to include that picture, look at the two little TABS Blogger gives you to work with, just above your white posting area. You're probably in the COMPOSE tab, so switch to the EDIT HTML tab (briefly) so we can add a line of code -- Then we'll come back to the COMPOSE tab, ok?
• In the EDIT HTML mode, look for wherever you think is the most likely place to insert your code -- don't be afraid to experiment.
• Then type the following, within little 'tag' brackets < >
  img src=http://indychristian.com/images/Neil3.jpg
  [except use the URL of the picture you want to appear in your post.]
• Switch back to the COMPOSE mode tab... and La Voila!!!... your pic should appear.
• Resize it to suit yourself. If you're not familiar with resizing, you can leave it as is, or you can play with it and learn, especially clicking on the little diagonal arrow that appears when you hover over the very corner of the pic... then dragging it, to resize.
• Also... you can hyperlink a pic just like you can hyperlink a piece of text. But that's another lesson. **smile**

Good luck. If you have trouble -- come see us any Saturday morning at the cafe (10am til noon)

And don't forget, Orangejack Blogging University is always there to help.

They've got a great section on photo-blogging. Give it a try.