“Use a picture. It's worth a
thousand words”
Newspaper
editor Arthur Brisbane to the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club, in March 1911
So you wanna be a blogger after having read Kelroy’s Geezam blog article “10 Online Tools
every Blogger should be aware of and use”. If you’ve mastered typing 101 as
per my ditty in my Geezam blog article
entitled “How
to use Windows Shortcuts to be a more proficient Writer” then you’re ready
to go.
But wait! How do I add pictures to spice up my blog? Dry
words are boring and as we all know a Picture’s a quick segway to the point.
Even better an entire album for perusing. A slideshow Carousel would be even
more divine.
So here’s a quick primer on how to use Picasa, my favourite product from
Google aside from Google Drive
that’s the only reason for using Google Chrome as I’m really Mozilla Firefox Fox Fan as noted in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to reset the default Search Engine in Mozilla Firefox”. And all it takes is
a small snippet of HTML that you insert in the source code for your blog or
website. Here’s the DIY (Do It Yourself) folks using!
Once you signed up to a Picasa account and familiarized
yourself with uploading pictures, you’ll realize that these pictures can be
used elsewhere aside from just being pretty pictures stored online. Please note
that Picasa works on blogs and
websites with albums set to “Public” or (preferably) “Limited, anyone with the
link” as shown below.
Images on your
Website save you on writing long prose
Let’s start with the Basics: Embedding a Picture. Even as a
writer on the Blogger platform, I love the idea that you can manipulate your picture
yourself as it gives you a greater measure of control over how your images
appear, a power Picasa gives you
with its myriad array of tools.
Here’s how you embed pictures on your blog or website:
- Click
your album on the My Photos page
- Click
the photo you'd like to embed.
- Click Link
to this Photo on the right sidebar.
- Set the
following preferences:
- Select your preferred image size.
- Select 'Hide album link' to remove a link to the
containing album, which is displayed by default with the image.
- Select 'Image only (no link)' to get the image URL by
itself, with no link back to Picasa
Web Albums.
- Copy
the HTML (Ctrl-C) in the “Embed image” field on the right-hand side.
- Paste
the HTML source code (Ctrl-V) in your website or Blog
Albums Are a
Collection of your Life’s work
Albums are also the next level and display a cover picture
which Picasa allows you to
customize. This cover pages is what appears on your website and once viewers click
the cover image they’ll be transported into your world described in pictures.
The instructions are again very straightforward:
- Click your album on the My Photos page.
- Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
- Copy the HTML (Ctrl-C) in the “Embed image” field on the right-hand side.
- Paste the HTML source code (Ctrl-V) in your website or Blog
Slideshow show and
Tell for your Website or Blog
Now to finally graduate from Picasa Embedding School with the
Advanced Course: Slideshows! Picasa
allows you to embed FLASH versions of your albums. Best of all it auto-updates
when you add more pictures. The instructions are as follows:
- Click your album on the My Photos page.
- Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
- Click Embed Slideshow.
- Set slideshow settings, such as image size, captions, and autoplay.
- Copy the HTML (Ctrl-C) in the “Embed image” field on the right-hand side.
- Paste the HTML source code (Ctrl-V) in your website or Blog
That’s it folks! Enjoy spiffing up your blog or website with embedded
pictures, Albums or even slideshows that update with ever picture you add
thanks to Picasa, the best
thing since Google Drive.
In fact, if you’re smart and your blog has great traffic, you can sell
advertising space on your blog for images and pictures for advertisers products
as active linked images, slideshows and albums, no different from the Display
Boards in Times Square, New York or even in Half Way Tree Jamaica!
Here’s the Link:
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