Blog design tips and tricks

A couple of people have asked me how to do this, so I thought I would write a tutorial. If you have any other questions on how to do formatting, etc in blogger, please let me know! I would love to make this a series!

How to add photos to your post and link your photos with Blogger:

Sometimes, you may want to link your pictures so that when someone clicks on the picture, it goes "somewhere else," either to the original source of the photo, perhaps to an etsy shop to buy the item, or even to someplace else on your blog. I'm here to show you how!

First, you need to make sure that you have a picture in your post. To add a picture to your blog post, go to the "picture" icon in your "new post" dashboard. (circled below)

That will bring up another window, like this:

From there, you can add pictures from your computer (circled), or you can link pictures from another URL (just make sure you have the exact URL of the picture, not just the website where you found the picture. That won't work.)

Or you can grab the HTML code from one of your photos from Flickr. Check out the picture below to see where I went to do that:

To insert the code that you found on flickr, COPY the code, the go to the "Edit HTML" tab on your post, and PASTE the code where you would like the picture to go. You can usually go back and edit where the picture is placed after you switch back to the COMPOSE tab.

**another note about grabbing the code from Flickr: the code is built in with a link back to THAT EXACT picture on Flickr. So if you only want to link back to the picture, then your work here is done! If you want the picture to link to something else, continue reading :-) **

NOW, to make the photos LINK to a source, the easiest way I've found to do this *without teaching you a ton of HTML coding* is to HIGHLIGHT the picture (while you're in the "compose" tab) and then click the LINK button, to LINK the photo, much like you would LINK a word, etc. If you need a visual:

Make sure you put the WHOLE link in the space when it pops up-- the whole link, meaning the http://www.xoxox.com as well, not just www.xoxox.com.

I hope that helps anyone that might have been confused before. Hopefully I didn't confuse anyone any MORE! Please ask any and all questions in the comments! If you want to know how to do MORE, let me know what else you would like to learn in the comments!