THIS IS A DRAFT – IT IS INCOMPLETE AND HAS NOT BEEN SCRUBBED TO MAKE THE LANGUAGE AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE. RATHER THAN WAIT UNTIL I GET BACK IN A WEEK, I AM POSTING IT SHOULD STEVE OR JEFF WANT TO FINISH IT. I WILL COMPLETE THIS DESCRIPTION NEXT WEEK, SO IF YOU CARE, CLICK THIS LINK AGAIN TO SEE THE UPGRADE.
Description on how to get pictures up on Blogger
Save JPEG or GIF type files from off your: camera, scanner, video camera, or from the web to a directory on your computer. They only need to be here temporarily as you will be uploading them to an online site shortly.
For optimal use these pictures should be graphically enhanced and sharpened and then down-resolutioned (re-sampled to a smaller size) so that they look better and load faster over the web. (This is a big and important topic that deserves to be covered, but let’s leave it for now and come back later to roll around in this technologically uplifting mud.)
Once your pictures are sitting on your hard drive, it's time to upload them to a storage site where they can be accessed around the clock by the http://raythomas.blogspot.com website i.e. anytime someone accesses the site. In other words, we will not actually upload our pics to the raythomas.blogspot site, rather, we will upload and store them elsewhere and only include their addresses on the raythomas.blogspot site.
Why?
Good question. It's all about storage space, Baby! Pictures take a lot of it so I suggest that we use one of the freebie picture storage sites to warehouse our pics and then just point to them from blogspot.
Here are the steps to make it happen.
Choose a website for storing your pics. There are many to choose from. I have experience with two (Yahoo and Angelfire – thanks to Steve the Beav), but will only explain Angelfire. I think that Yahoo sometimes disallows other sites from accessing pics stored there (e.g. EBAY). I have had a mixed experience taking advantage of yahoo this way and so I prefer to play it safe by staying with Angelfire even though I like Yahoo better. Jeff you may have other site suggestions. If so please weigh-in.
First, you will need an Angelfire account. Because this may deter many of you from the final object -- to post your own pics – I have setup several sites that you can use if you want. I will forward you the locations and passwords via email, in case some of you have disclosed to outsiders the raythomas.blogspot.com address so that we are now being viewed by outsiders—like animals at the zoo, we don’t want this information passed about. (By the way – if others have been given this site name and you any of us want to confess the leak, don’t be afraid to do so, as we can always change the location of our site without any disruption to any of us. In this way we can ditch any lurkers.)
Alright then. . . . Log into Angelfire by following instructions in the to-follow email. You will need to navigate to the HOME > BUILD > WEBSHELL area as this is where you will upload your pics.
Once there, locate the FILE UPLOAD portion of the page (it’s toward the bottom) and has two buttons: BROWSE and UPLOAD as well as a link right below UPLOAD that says Upload Multiple Files and it is this little tool that we will use to grab the pics you previously saved on your hard drive.
Select the Upload Multiple Files link. This takes you to another window that has ten separate BROWSE buttons and little browse windows. Click the top BROWSE button. This takes you to a Choose File window looking at your home computer. Within this window you must navigate to the directory where you previously stored your pics – the ones you prep’d for upload (more on the “prep” process later). To navigate within this window you can click on the “Look in” box and it will bring down a directory tree. Just keep hunting until you get there. Once you do, click on one of the pic files you want to upload. This selects it. Then press the OPEN button at the bottom right of the window. This automatically copies the address of that pic file to the little browse window to the left of the BROWSE button.
Now, select the next BROWSE button. Again, it brings up the Chose File window. Continue with this process until you have selected all the pictures you intend to upload up to ten. If you have more you will simply repeat this process in the next batch.
Now click the UPLOAD button at the bottom of the screen (You should be in the UPLOAD MULTIPLE FILES screen to be able to do this.) Once you click it, sit back and relax; it may take your system a few minutes to fetch all these files up to the Angelfire site, especially if you have a slow modem connection. When the operation is complete you should see all your selected files in the small window in the center of the screen.
Now to make the connection to the raythomas.blogspot.com site . . .
You had best write down the names of all the files as they appear on the Angelfire storage site. Be sure to do this precisely including any underscore or hyphen marks. You will need to type these into your soon to be created blogger post. At the top of the page is the WEBSITE name: for example: https://www.angelfire.com/poetry/endeavor
This address must precede each of the names of the pictures you just uploaded when you get to your blogger post. You can copy and paste the name, however, so you will only need to write this part of it once. I’ll demonstrate below.
Now, login to Blogger. (But if you can, leave the Angelfire window up on your screen. For those who don’t know this, you can usually have multiple open windows although judging from the precarious shape of Carol’s computer this may not be true.)
TO BE CONTINUED . . . . .
