just wanted to put up a few (very) random pictures i like amongst the 700 i took – nice to see people are still blogging. good to hear your ‘voices’.
actually, can someone help me here – there are seven images – main road at dusk, exercising in park, panda car in park, blue rabbit, kids at theatre, students lloking at fish and girl at mausoleum – they’re all uploaded and can be found in ‘browse all’ but i can’t get them onto this page. if you are able and can then delete this part of my entry i’d be very grateful.
Hi Bruce
I’m not the best person to offer help as i lost half my hair trying to upload mine!
If you click on the pic you want do you get the option to ’send to editor’? (inserts the code for the photo in your text box). I think making image size smaller (about 500 pixels) might help. Shawn can access the pics too so if he can manage it then I’m sure he’ll share the secret of stress free uploading! N x
IF I COULD SWEAR ON THIS BLOG I WOULD!
I just wrote you really long detailed instructions and when I went to send the comment it lost it all due to lost internet connection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GGGrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!
I really need to sleep now so will try again tomorrow. Sorry.
The short answer is that I use Flickr.com – A free photo sharing site.
Hopefully chat more tomorrow, but if you get the time take a look at Flickr and register.
Chat soon.
Shawn
(still upset….) ;-(
Ok I’ll try again, but save it in Word this time in case I lose it all again.
The way I post up images is a bit long winded but is actually quite quick and easy once you get used to it.
All free blog sites have a memory limit on the amount of images you can internally upload, so most bloggers use sites such as Flickr to store their images in. Flickr is a free image sharing site owned by Yahoo.
1. Log into the blog and go to the ‘write’ section’. Click on the tab saying ‘code’ above the text window. No minimise that internet browser window and open a new one.
2. In the new internet window go to flickr.com and Register (if you haven’t registered already)
3. Upload any images you want to use into Flickr.
4. Double click the image thumbnail of the one you want to blog first and then click on the ‘All sizes’ icon that is just above the image.
5. It will automatically open the largest size available. Click on ‘medium’, which can be found just above the huge image.
6. When it opens the medium size image, scroll down and you will see that Flickr has given you a load of html code for the image, and also a web address. Copy the code.
7. Open up the blog internet window and Paste that code into window where you would usually write your blog post. (make sure it is in ‘code’ mode’).
8. Now click onto the ‘Visual’ tab, and you should see your photo, which you can now type above or under at your leisure. If you want to insert another photo then just go back to Flickr and copy the ‘medium size’ code for the next image you want, and paste that back into the ‘code’ mode of the blog text window above or below what’s already in there.
I know this may sound complicated but once you actually go through the motions it is actually quite straight forward and becomes more intuitive.
There is a way of linking your Flickr account directly to the blog but when it posts it up it looks a bit rubbish and you can only put one image in a post.
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(N.B. If in your blog window when you write a post you see a small tree icon just above where you would write your message, then that is really useful. Click that and copy and paste into the ‘url’ section the ‘medium’ size web address that Flickr gives you for the image you want. That way you don’t have to mess about with code. I noticed though that in China not all of us could see that icon when we were posting.)
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I’ll end here but I hope that all makes some kind of sense. Trust me, print it off and follow the steps and it should word.
(Famous last words!)
Let me know how it goes or if any problems.
Shawn
p.s. And sorry Bruce I’ve looked in that ‘Browse all’ section (for the first ever time) and seen your pics there, but don’t know yet how you get them into the blog. I’ll keep trying.
p.p.s I just noticed, when you double click the thumbnail images in the ‘Browse all’ section there is a ‘links’ click. Click that and copy the url address it gives you.
In intructions above about how to post images, follow the directions in the N.B section (ignoring references to Flickr) and you should be flying!
In short – to paste the url you got from the ‘Browse all’ bit into the tree icon prompt.
Clear as mud???