Guide to Inserting Images into your Orble Posts
February 17th 2007 03:54
Several bloggers have asked me questions, or shown some confusion about putting images in their posts. Others have learned to insert images, but are hesitant to mess around with the parameters to customize the look of the images.
Images are important! If you've spent any time at all reading posts around the network, you'll have realized that it's much more appealing to have long passages of text broken up with interesting images.
How about a couple of tips on images?
DON'T use images are too large or too small!
DON'T blow up low-resolution pictures, or shrink really high resolution images!
DON'T mistitle images!
DON'T insert pictures in awkward places in your post!
DON'T steal commerical images!
In order to insert images correctly, I've taken screenshots of how I inserted pictures of my latest post on 20/20 Filmsight, about the film adaptation of Frank Miller's 300.
The Orble homepage takes the first image from your post, trims it, and displays it along with your title. To take advantage of this, the first image of your post should be eye-catching, fascinating, or just plain awesome.
For my first image, I took a still from IMDb of a battle scene from the movie, centered it and placed it at the top of the post:
By setting the alignment to 'Center' and word wrap to 'No', the subsequent text will appear after the picture, which will be nicely centered. It's a good look for a good quality landscape oriented picture.
An important thing to remember: fill in the Title field. It's one of the best things you can do for your blog. Since images on Orble are stored under a Secret-Service type alphanumeric code (or something), the Title description is the only thing that Google can use to index your images.
And you'll get some big-bad traffic from Google Image Search, let me tell you. Sometimes, as much as 30% of my daily traffic is from image seaches, though, truthfully, a lot of those visitors are looking for 'Lindsay Lohan bikini' or 'Britney Spears no panties'.
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How do you resize image? Well, you could use the resizing options in the upload menu. The preset scalings fized at certain sizes, which may not be adequate.
My little trick is to upload a picture at full resolution, then editing the Orble code after the image has been inserted.
Take, for example, this image of one of the actresses from 300. I right-justified her picture:
But the image was originally quite small - only 130 pixels wide.... I'd like to expand the picture, to take up more space. I can do this by manually editing the insertion code in my post.
From this:
To this:
To see the final version of the page, click here.
Unfortunately, I didn't follow my own advice... the picture of the actress was not high resolution enough to be successfully enlarged, giving it that nasty, grainy look. I'll discipline myself later.
So, that's how it's done. Useful, eh?
If you have any questions or suggestions, throw them down in the comments section.
Images are important! If you've spent any time at all reading posts around the network, you'll have realized that it's much more appealing to have long passages of text broken up with interesting images.
How about a couple of tips on images?
DON'T use images are too large or too small!
DON'T blow up low-resolution pictures, or shrink really high resolution images!
DON'T mistitle images!
DON'T insert pictures in awkward places in your post!
DON'T steal commerical images!
In order to insert images correctly, I've taken screenshots of how I inserted pictures of my latest post on 20/20 Filmsight, about the film adaptation of Frank Miller's 300.
The Orble homepage takes the first image from your post, trims it, and displays it along with your title. To take advantage of this, the first image of your post should be eye-catching, fascinating, or just plain awesome.
For my first image, I took a still from IMDb of a battle scene from the movie, centered it and placed it at the top of the post:
By setting the alignment to 'Center' and word wrap to 'No', the subsequent text will appear after the picture, which will be nicely centered. It's a good look for a good quality landscape oriented picture.
An important thing to remember: fill in the Title field. It's one of the best things you can do for your blog. Since images on Orble are stored under a Secret-Service type alphanumeric code (or something), the Title description is the only thing that Google can use to index your images.
And you'll get some big-bad traffic from Google Image Search, let me tell you. Sometimes, as much as 30% of my daily traffic is from image seaches, though, truthfully, a lot of those visitors are looking for 'Lindsay Lohan bikini' or 'Britney Spears no panties'.
----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- -------------------------
How do you resize image? Well, you could use the resizing options in the upload menu. The preset scalings fized at certain sizes, which may not be adequate.
My little trick is to upload a picture at full resolution, then editing the Orble code after the image has been inserted.
Take, for example, this image of one of the actresses from 300. I right-justified her picture:
But the image was originally quite small - only 130 pixels wide.... I'd like to expand the picture, to take up more space. I can do this by manually editing the insertion code in my post.
From this:
To this:
To see the final version of the page, click here.
Unfortunately, I didn't follow my own advice... the picture of the actress was not high resolution enough to be successfully enlarged, giving it that nasty, grainy look. I'll discipline myself later.
So, that's how it's done. Useful, eh?
If you have any questions or suggestions, throw them down in the comments section.
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Comment by charles
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One thing I'd like to add is always to add a title to the inserted image, i.e. if you post an image of a car, put the make and model of the car in the title.
Great for search engines like Google image etc.
Charles.