Welcome to My Squidoo Tips 8
This Squidoo Tips Lens will show you how to upload an image online and how to post it on a lens. Using the optional image feature in a module is ok, but sometimes we need to use an image within the body of a module. It's really easy, and here is how.
You only need to know three things
- You should have already saved the image to your hard drive (your computer).
- You need to upload that image from your hard drive to where you host your images; such as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or an on-line image hosting site.
- You need to know what the URL properties of your image are.
What's the code?
- The html code to post an image is <img src="URL of your image">
- As an example, if you right click on the email mailbox image below and click on "Properties"
- To post this email mailbox image, I would type the following HTML Coding
<img src="http://www.geocities.com/katicksupplies/ebay/email3.jpg">
You will see on the pop up Properties box what the Address (URL) of this image is
Already have a PhotoBucket account?
For those using Photobucket, it is even easier. No offense to Flickr, I've just been with Photobucket for years. :-)
You just have to copy the Tag line which is below the image you have uploaded already to Photobucket.
If you Left Click your cursor anywhere within the Tag line, it will highlight the entire line.
Keep your cursor in the highlighted area, Right Click and select Copy. You have now copied the entire line (html coding and all) required to post this image.
You now only have to Right Click and Paste it where ever you want the image to show, such as your lens.
Tip: If you want to post an image on the SquidU Forum, you would copy and paste the IMG Code line
You just have to copy the Tag line which is below the image you have uploaded already to Photobucket.
If you Left Click your cursor anywhere within the Tag line, it will highlight the entire line.
Keep your cursor in the highlighted area, Right Click and select Copy. You have now copied the entire line (html coding and all) required to post this image.
You now only have to Right Click and Paste it where ever you want the image to show, such as your lens.
Tip: If you want to post an image on the SquidU Forum, you would copy and paste the IMG Code line
Direct Linking (Hotlinking)
Direct Linking, also known as hot linking, is unauthorized use of someone else's bandwidth.If you copy the URL of an image from another site and post it directly (rather than saving the image to your own hard drive and uploading it to your own image hosting site) your are direct linking.
By doing this, your are using that person's bandwidth, and if done too often can cause their site to exceed their limit and be taken down temporarily or crash.
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- littlepiecesofpeace littlepiecesofpeace Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
- Hi, Not sure where else to go. Have contacted forum but no answer. My pictures all disappeared at once from my lens. Even the picture on a 2nd lens that I wasn't working on at the time. I have tried to reupload no luck. I ever deleted the module and redid it trying the picture again. No luck. what has happened and how do I get them to load?? They are pictures from my computer. I originally had no trouble loading them. Help.
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- awelldressedbullet awelldressedbullet Jun 18, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
- The instructions here are not for what you are doing. To put an image in a specific image module on Squidoo, you only have to direct upload from your computer to the Squidoo module, following the instructions for that specific module. When uploading an image from your computer to a module on Squidoo is just that, no hosting of the image (i.e. Photobucket) is required. Try either My Squidoo Tips 10 or Squidoo Tips 11. If still having trouble, drop by SquidU Forums. [in reply to myinnerwisdom]
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- myinnerwisdom myinnerwisdom Jun 17, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
- Hi, I'm working on my first lens, and I signed up for Photobucket. I think I'm doing just what you explained. I'm putting the information in the field available under the photo square. Everytime I click on "upload", nothing happens. Of course, I'm working on my first personal photo. (I think it's the one that appears everytime I write a comment) Anyway, If you have any advice for me, I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you.
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- Spook Spook Nov 20, 2008 @ 7:35 am
- It does seem simple enough. Will have to try it out, still battling with a lot of this though.
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- rosemaryamle rosemaryamle Nov 6, 2008 @ 12:35 am
- Hi, I am new to blogging and am in the process of creating my first lens. Couldn't figure out how to upload images until I read this. Thanks. Actually I find the process of uploading images much simpler on blogspot.com where I already have a blog -rosemary-witchcraft.blogspot.com and am uploading images like crazy. Your lens was very clear about instructions. Thanks again.
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