THIS IS A TEST: CAN I INSERT PHOTOS IN THE POST TEXT?
CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
LEARNING HOW TO INSERT PICTURES IN A BLOG POST
People who know me say that mechanical and electronic devices recognize me, and become like belligerent children when they see me coming. Combine that with my being computer challenged, and you have a deadly combination.
That’s why it is so amazing that I am managing four blogs, and considering two more. Now wait—this doesn’t mean I am a computer geek. I have one blog that I use for my personal writing. This is where you are reading now, CAROLYN’S CREATIONS, at www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com. I edit a blog for the Beanery Writers Group at www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com . Then I began a newsletter for our community, Laurel Mountain Borough (PA) at www.laurelmountainboro.wordpress.com .
I was doing just fine when I was contacted by the Ellsworth American Newspaper in Hancock County, Maine. They’d seen my post on climbing Schoodic Mountain (OH, TO CLIMB SCHOODIC MOUNTAIN (Maine) ) and invited me to participate in their newspaper blog. I sighed, argued with myself, and finally signed on. After all, many of the characters and teh scenes in the journal article I was writing and the historic romance article I’m now writing are located in Lamoine, Maine, in Hancock County. What an opportunity for great prepublicity!
Now, I am considering developing a blog specifically for the novel, Intertwined Love. Although I prefer the writing blogs to be free of photographs (illustrations are accomplished via links to a Flickr site), I want to insert photographs in the novel blog.
That’s what brings me to this post. I need a venue to learn and practice inserting pictures. Thus, I will break my process for CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS by inserting (I hope) a couple of pictures directly on this post. I have chosen two, just for fun. Here goes:
This picture is of my brother in law, Bob Londraville, and myself, at a family reunion. We are the only “outlaws” remaining in the Edwin and Gertrude Stevenson Holland family of DeKalb, New York (my husband was the youngest of their ten children).
"THE OUTLAWS" Bob and Carolyn
The second picture is a kitten belonging to my husband’s neice, Valerie, and her husband Bill.
KITTEN IN MY HAT
Now, if I have accomplished this task successfully, this post should display two pictures inserted in the text. If the pictures aren’t there, I will add the links so as not to disappoint anyone who might want to see them.
Hey, that was easy. I even cut them out several times to learn how to position them better.
Perhaps this task was not done perfectly, but at least it has overcome a big hurdle in my planning the blog for my novel.
Now, if I, a computer illiterate, an electronics amateur, can accomplish this, certainly you can too.
All I hope is that when this is posted it looks as nice as it does in the typing box.
ADDITIONAL READING:
1790′S PAMPHLETEERING VERSUS 2000′S BLOGGING
Blogging: Does it Have Value? Part 1
Blogging: Does it Have Value? Part 2
Blogging: Does it Have Value? Part 3
Since beginning blogging, this person
