XD13 Sites that allow users to write guest posts have one problem: They can NOT upload pictures directly to the site. I have no idea why, they just can’t. Therefore, images must be hosted elsewhere. Here is how to do that:
1. Get a site that is able to upload pictures. These can include, but are not limited to: Photobucket, Twitpic, YFrog, Facebook, ImageShack, mySpace, Flickr, your WordPress site, etc.
2. Get the URL to the image. This can be done several ways depending on the browser/image hosting site you choose. If you use photobucket, on the image, you want to copy the “Direct Link.” For most other sites, it is not easy to get the direct link using the site itself. That’s where your browser comes in.
Firefox: Right click on the image, click copy image location; OR click view image, and copy the address from the address bar at the top
Internet Explorer 9: Right click on the image, click properties, copy the Address (URL)
3. If you were just trying to get the URL of a image (Which can be needed Spiritual Blogs, or Spritebase) you are done once you paste it in. If you are trying to put it into a post, simply hit the “Add an Image” button to the left of "Upload/Insert” below the post title, and above the editor. Click the “From URL” Tab, and paste the Image URL in the image URL field. Add a title to it as well. Everything else is optional. Alternate Text appears if the image is not available; Image caption adds a caption to the image; Alignment makes you align the image; and the Link to image field makes you link to whatever the URL is when the image is clicked on. Usually, the “Link to image” button is clicked to do this. When you insert it (in the visual editor, it will show up), you can resize it by moving the little white squares in the corners and at the midpoints of the image when you click on it. Also, when you click on the image, two small images appear in a corner. The red circle with a line through it deletes the picture; the other one brings up options of a picture. Resizing and various other options can be found here.
If you know HTML, you can also insert a picture by using the HTML tab on the editor (The code is <img src="ImageURL" width="Number" height="Number">)
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