Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Inserting a picture into a blog post

This article about integrating Picasa and Blogger has instructions for inserting a picture into a blog post or page.  

It applies no matter whether the picture comes from, but has particular information about pictures that are already in Picasa.

Pictures and blog posts 

When you want to put a picture into a blog post, you can either upload it through Blogger's editor, or upload it to somewhere on the internet first, and then just link to that location from Blogger.

I recommend uploading pictures outside Blogger because you can  control the size and picture quality of the uploaded files:   if you do the upload through Blogger, then the resolution is often reduced and this can make your pictures look fuzzy.  However I do recommend using Picasa-web-albums as the "somewhere else on the internet, because only pictures stored in Picasa can be used as thumbnail images for your post.


How to put a picture into a post

1  Make sure you know where the original picture is and that you have copyright permission to use it.

2  If the photo is not already on the internet, upload it to Picasa-web-albums, or another tool (eg Flickr, Photobox, etc) that will give you the link to the picture.

3  Copy the internet-location (ie the URL) of the picture file,   (This article tells you how to find the location of a picture that's stored in-Picasa web-albums.)

4  Click the picture icon on the toolbar: 

  

Enter the picture location into the box that opens. 

If the picture is on your computer use the "Upload an image" dialog, or if it is on the internet, use the "Web address(URL" option.


5  Click Ok.

6  The picture you have chosen appears in your Edit Posts window.




Controlling the pictures in your post:


Size and alignment:
When you click on a picture, a small menu opens (generally beside or under the picture), with options to:
  • choose the size (small, medium, large, extra-large),
  • align it (left, centre or right)
  • remove it

If you want the picture to sit in the middle of a paragraph of text, rather than underneath it,
  • Go in to Edit HTML mode 
  • Locate the picture you want 
  • Delete the line before it that says 
      <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  • Delete the first line after it that says

    </div>



Picture Position:
Quite often, pictures that you add through the toolbar are put at the start of the post, or perhaps the start of the current paragraph, instead of exactly where you want them.

You can often move a picture around by drag-and-drop (click the picture, drag it, and drop it where you want it to go) - though sometimes this doesn't work as well as it should.

You may need to edit the HTML to move the picture around:   to do this, go into Edit HTML mode, and find the code for your picture relative to the other text in your post.   Every case is a little different, but in general the code for a picture looks like:
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/tkoGx2454hA/s1600-h/Inserting+a+picture.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ufFKAr0d1qmq9aW1KZfNNsv-AbPNBP0y739vGFE5k_qh3d0L2VvpYad99hacIJ43NVQtcwTW5ABdd4rba9DLBlzz0RABme-IMzdy28SvaiCwDB_-1EG6oqf4kDwZfgylWifcOKtc5it5/s400/Inserting+a+picture.gif" />&nbsp;</a>

If you want to move a picture by editing the HTML, make sure that you take all the code between the opening  <a href    ....    and the closing   </a>

For more information about how picture code is structured and how you can change it, see stopping pictures in your blog from being "clickable". and putting text and pictures side by side.



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    Jaguar XFR

    Jaguar XFR

    A marca inglesa aumenta sua oferta no Brasil, oferecendo agora o sedã esportivo XFR. Custando 450 mil reais, ele chega num nível alto, fazendo oposição aos consagrados BMW M5, Audi RS6 e Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG.

    A letra R traz variadas melhorias ao XF comum. Por fora, os quatro canos de escapamento e as tomadas de ar no capô e na frente das portas dianteiras denunciam que se trata de um Jaguar mais “nervoso”. No interior, a esportividade é sinalizada pelo painel com detalhes em alumínio, e pelo couro perfurado que reveste volante e bancos, estes na cor vermelha, e ambos ostentando a inicial de Racing.

    O pacote de equipamentos condiz com o luxo exterior ao unir a eletrônica com a sofisticação, resultando no computador de bordo com touchscreen, e que regula funções como o ajuste eletrônico do diferencial e o controle de tração. Comandado pelo câmbio de seis marchas, seu excelente desempenho é garantido pelo 5.0 V8 de 510 cv, resultando em 0 a 100 km/h em 5 segundos e velocidade máxima de 250 km/h, limitados eletronicamente.

    Read more > Jaguar XFR

    Putting a Picasa slideshow into your sidebar

    This article shows how to put a slideshow from Picasa-web-albums into a gadget on your blog.

    Overview

    Crossota spPreviously I've described the options for linking your blog and Picasa-web-albums, and noted that putting a slideshow into a gadget is one option.

     A slideshow is a set of photos that automatically advance from one to the next - it's a little different from an album, which is just a collection of photos with no auto-advance feature.

    There are two approaches you can take to putting a PWA slideshow into your blog:
    • Getting the code from Picasa and using a HTML/Javascript gadget.
    • Using Blogger's slideshow gadget.

    The 2nd option is easier, but the first (usually) gives you more control over how the slideshow works.


     HTML/Javascript Gadget Approach:

    (NB a similar approach will work for other blogging tools, eg Wordpress, thought the details will vary slightly)
    1. Go to Picasa Web Albums (http://picasaweb.google.com/home).
    2. Check that you have already uploaded the album you want from your PC to Picasa-web-albums.
      (and if you haven't, go back to Picasa and upload it now)
    3. Choose an album by clicking on it.


      The album view opens, showing you a thumbnail of all the photos in it on the left of the screen. On the right of the screen, there is a sidebar of useful tools. One of these is "Link to this Album".
    4. Click on "Link to this Album"
    5. Click on "Embed Slideshow"
      This opens a new dialog box, over the top of your current browser window.



    6. Fill in the option details you want (slideshow size, whether or not to show captions and to autoplay the slides, etc)
    7. Copy the HTML from the box at the bottom of the left hand-side (the one labelled "Copy and paste ..."
    8. You can now put this HTML into your blog, the same way you would add any other 3rd party HTML:  option 1 in this article describes how to put it into a gadget.

    Alternative:  

    You may be able to use the slideshow gadget instead.  To do this, follow steps 1 and 2, and then:
    1. Go to Picasa Web Albums (http://picasaweb.google.com/home).
    2. Check that you have already uploaded the album you want from your PC to Picasa-web-albums.
      (and if you haven't, go back to Picasa and upload it now)
    3. Return to Blogger, and:
      In pre-Sept-2011 Blogger, go to Design / Page Elements in Blogger, or
      In post-Sept-211 Blogger, to do the Layout tab
    4. Click "Add a gadget" in the area where you want to put the slideshow.
    5. Choose the Slideshow gadget,
    6. Choose these options - in the order shown (ie work down the page - some of the bottom options won't have the right values availabl until the earlier ones are set)
    • Source = Picasa web albums
    • Option = Album
    • Username = the name of the google account where the album is stored.   (eg, mine is maryc.fromnz)
    • Album = which ever album your photos are in.
    Save the gadget, and check that the position is correct.


    Some people advise against saying that Picasa-web-albums is the source:  they suggest choosing Other, and just pasting in the album's URL.   I haven't yet found any reasons for this, but it's worth trying if using Picasa as a source doesn't work for you.



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    Picasa & Blogger - Part 1, What is Picasa?

    Picasa & Blogger - Part 2, Options for linking Picasa into your Blog

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    Understanding Google accounts

    Centering gadgets on your blog
    Read more > Putting a Picasa slideshow into your sidebar

    Options for linking Picasa into your Blog

    There are various places on your blog where you can put items from Picasa - and different options from Picasa too (individual pictures, albums, slideshows).  This article describes them, and links to articles with specific instructions about each combination.



    Where to put Picasa items on your blog:


    Previously, I looked at how Picasa manages pictures, and the advantages and disadvantages of using each type of Picasa item in your blog.

    In short, you can choose where to put Picasa pictures, album links or slideshows in your Blog.

    Options include:
    • inside an individual post, 
    • as a gadget in your sidebar
    • as a gadget in some other part of the blog that is set up to take gadgets (eg the header or footer)
    The advantanges and disadvantages of each position are just the same as they are for other types of item (widget, diagram, map, graph, spreadsheet, etc) that you might put on your blog, ie they're not specific to Picasa items, and they vary a lot depending on your blog's design and niche.  So I'm not going in to them here..


    How to put Picasa items into your Blogger blog:


    (may of the principles here will work with Picasa and other types of blogging software - eg Wordpress, Typepad, etc - but these articles are targetted to Blogger)


    Inside a Blog PostIn a Gadget
    As an individual picturePutting a Picture into a page on BloggerInserting a Picture as a Gadget.
    As an Album linkLinking to a Picasa album in a Blogger post

    Linking to a Picasa album in your sidebar (or other gadget)
    As a SlideshowPutting a Slideshow (from a Picasa album) into a Blogger post Putting a Slideshow (from a Picasa album) into your sidebar



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    Read more > Options for linking Picasa into your Blog

    Picasa & Blogger - series overview

    Blogger-Hints-and-Tips has a series of posts about integrating Blogger and Picasa.   This is the "home page" for the series, and has links to all the articles.


    Articles in the series include:




    Options for putting things from Picasa into Blogger (with links to detailed how-to instructions for inserting pictures, albums and slidehows into Blogger posts and gadgets)

    Read more > Picasa & Blogger - series overview

    Thursday, January 7, 2010

    Audi A3 Sport

    Audi A3 Sport

    O modelo mais compacto da marca alemã ganha mais uma versão no mercado brasileiro, apenas com carroceria de três portas, e preço de 110 mil reais, já disponível na rede de concessionárias.

    Como era de se esperar, o comportamento esportivo é garantido pelo motor 2.0 TFSI, com injeção direta de gasolina, e que produz 200 cv e 28,5 kgfm de torque. Isso lhe garante aceleração de 0 a 100 km/h em 6,8 segundos e velocidade máxima de 238 km/h, segundo dados da marca. Sua transmissão é a automática sequencial S-Tronic, com seis marchas e dupla embreagem.

    Generoso, seu pacote de equipamentos contempla ar-condicionado digital bi-zona, volante em couro com borboletas para troca de marcha, quatro airbags, sistema de som multimídia e piloto automático. A segurança é garantida pelos freios com ABS, EBD e ESP.

    Read more > Audi A3 Sport

    Wednesday, January 6, 2010

    Stopping some pages appearing on the home page

    This article is about how to make sure that a given post never appears on your blog's so-called "home page".

    Blogger and Home-pages

    As explained previously, Blogger's usual approach is to show new visitors to your blog your most recent post - since hopefully they are return visitors coming back to check what you've written recently.

    However there may be some things that you don't want to appear first when users go to your blog.

    For example, contact details or lists of committee members, which users normally reach by clicking on a menu or link.



    Option 1:  pre-date the post


    To ensure that a page is not what a reader sees when they arrive at your blog's home page, you just need to: make sure that its Post-date (which can be set in the Post Editor) isn't in the top N dates used in your blog, where N = the number of posts per page that you have selected.   This is set:
    • in the Blog Posts area which is under Design / Page Elements.   Or 
    • under Settings > Formatting > Show at Most 


    By default, in most templates, it is set to 7.  In many of my blogs, I've set in to 1, so there is only one post on each page.  And even if Blogger chooses to show less posts than you have selected per page, this approach will still work.

    Give a far-in-the-past date to pages that you never want to appear first.  But don't make it so far in the past  that they will seem like nonsense if Google ever converts historic posts.   A date like 2-3 years ago might be a good compromise.

    However if you follow this approach, then it would be a good to not display the post-date on ANY of your posts.   If you do display it, and it's out-of-date, the reader will think 
    "gosh, those contacts haven't been updated since <>, they can't be right".   
    So you need to turn it off (also on Blog Posts), and if date is relevant, put it in the text of your posts.


    Option 2:  Use a Page instead of a Post


    Blogger's so-called "static" pages are a far simpler was to meat this goal.  Simply put the material that you do not ever want onto one of your regular Pages", an d"home page", and guaranteed not to show up on your home page or in your RSS feed.

    This option was not available when this post was originally launched, but it has a lot to recommend it.





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