Seasons of Lace

We’ve been having some problems with the Add Media Button in the post editor. Between web browsers that can’t get it to work properly, folks who have been uploading pictures for storage, and authors who don’t know what do to with all the options. So I would like to encourage everyone to use the “Insert/Edit image” button that is part of the main posting tool bar. The icon looks like this –> .  It should allow you to do all the same things the Add Media button did, but with a much simpler and more browser compatible interface.

Below are step by step instructions for how to post an image using this button: (I’ve put in a bunch of images so the specifics are below the Continue Reading link)

1. Aquire the URL of your image from the website it is hosted on. 
2. Go to website where your image is hosted (Flickr, Picassa, Gallery2 etc.).
3. Navigate to the image you would like to post to the site.
4. In IE: Right click on the image and choose properties, in the properties window copy the line after Address (URL):.  If the line is 2 rows long make sure you get the whole thing from the http:// to the end of the file extension.
5. If you have Firefox, right click on the image you want and choose Copy Image Location
   

6. Come to the blog, and go to the posting interface.  Click on the button. The Insert/edit images window will pop up, and you can paste your Image URL right into the interface.  You can click on the Appearance tab and it will give you lots of options for sizing and tweaking how your image fits into your layout.
   
7. Click the insert button on the bottom of the Insert/edit image box.  Now you picture has been added!
8. You can add as many pictures this way as you’d like.
9. Tip: I do this in a browser with tabs - so I can browse Flickr and get my image info, and then just flip over to the post I am writing in another tab and insert the photo.

   Please let me know if any part of this isn’t clear, and I’ll do my best to clarify it.