Loading Photos on this Site

Some members have had a hard time figuring out how to load photos.  Hopefully, this will help. 

If you want to post a photo inside a comment, like in one of the groups, there is a little blue box at the top that looks like a tiny landscape (green and blue).  Hover over the little box and it says "Insert Image".   You click on that and a new box opens up where you can either find a photo from on your hard drive or copy and paste an address from a photo located somewhere else on the web. All photos on the web have an address. To find out what that address is, you right click on the photo and choose properties. You will get a line that starts with http and ends with .jpeg (Most often it's a jpeg, although it could be a bitmap file. You copy that whole line and can paste it wherever you need it.

When you load a photo, it automatically goes to the beginning of your text box.  So, if you have several images and want it to go to a specific spot, you have to copy and paste it to where you want it.  (Highlight, right click on the highlight, select cut, move mouse where you want it, select paste.)

It's better to load photos from your hard drive. If you use one from the web, the link will disappear if the photo is moved or taken away. The ones from your hard drive will stay up until the world ends.

When you are loading photos to the photo page, click on "Add new photo". A java box opens up where you can add the location of each photo. That one takes a lot of ram, so if you have an older computer (like I do) it can jam a lot. They also give you an option to use the old way (it shows up underneath the java box). This option doesn't let you load as many at once, but is better for slower computers.

Tip for blog posts that get linked to the front page:  If you write a post in your Fiber Focus blog, it will look bigger on the front page if you start it with an image.  For example, let's say you have a quilt you want to show off and you have a couple of images that will go with your text.  Load an image first, then describe it, then finish with an image, or put it somewhere else in the text.  The first three lines or so are automatically pulled as an excerpt of your post, so if you start with an image, the size of the box you are given accommodates that image and makes your post look bigger.