A picture is worth a thousand words. That's why a good blogging site will do it's best to make adding pictures a snap. On some blogging sites, though there's a way to easily add a photo, there's not much ability to place it where you want it. Or you may find that there's a limit to the number of pictures you're allowed to upload. So to get around that you may have
gotten used to hotlinking in photos from other sites.
Well hotlink no more. On Multiply, adding an image is a breeze
and putting it where you want is even easier.
When you're composing a blog post, you'll notice that just under the title is a series of icons. (There's a
great article on composing a blog entry right here, if you're interested. It explains a bit about what some of the other icons do as well as gives a bit of info. about adding pictures.) Find the
little symbol that looks like a small snapshot of mountain scenery:
Click on it.
You'll be taken to a new page. (Don't worry, your blog post is just fine, even if you can't see it at the moment.) Here, you'll be given three options: 1) upload a picture from your computer, 2) use a picture that you've already uploaded to an album on multiply, or 3) use a picture that's already online somewhere. Select whichever one is appropriate.
Once you've chosen the photo, you'll be given the option of having it show up on the right side of the post, the left side of the post, or in the center. These are the only options for horizontal placement, but vertically you'll be able to put your photo wherever you want. Select the horizontal placement that you prefer and you'll be taken right back to the page you had been composing your blog, only now your picture
will be showing up at the top of the page. If you don't want it to be at the top, drag it to wherever you do want it to be. (It'll stay at the horizontal designation that you already chose: right, left or center, even if you drag it to somewhere different than that.)
The first picture that you uploaded will also be shown in thumbnail form on your home page if your blog is set up in summary view. But you can move that picture anywhere you'd like in the actual blog. When you add your second picture, it'll pop up at the very top of your blog. Don't sweat. All you have to do is grab it and move it to where you want it to be. If it displaced a previous image for awhile, that one will snap back in place once you've arranged the second one in it's own location.
Notice that you can upload photos of different sizes and you're certainly not limited to only one image per blog post.
Also, for larger images (like the photo of the Ren. Cen. in Detroit shown to the left) you can click on the photo to see it in a larger format.
And if you really want to fit a photo into your blog entry in a place that you can't using the easy add photo feature, you can always fall back upon good old html. If you look back up at the little green portrait icon near the top of this post, you'll notice that it's neither to the right, the left, or the dead center. I added that image by clicking on the check box next to the words "Edit HTML" to the upper right of the composing area and added that image exactly where I wanted it using html.
Multiply makes adding photos to your blogs easy and easily customizable. Enjoy!
