This post is a guestblog Damien Riley from Postcards From the Funny Farm. Thanks Damien!
A blog can be a great way to network with other people. It can also be a way to build an audience. Both these blog traits can work to make you money if you are diligent. If you are here at Katelyn’s blog I am sure you have some interest in the blogging life. If not, this post might not apply to you. Either way, I hope you’ll read along as I explain adding value to your blog experience. Knowing how to tweak images in your theme as well as in your posts will make more valuable posts ergot a more valuable blog.
Putting pictures in your posts. Pictures are simply stored bits of information that are “decoded” by a browser for your readers. If you see them as files and bits of code you may be able to understand how to wield them better in your posts. While Blogger, WordPress, and most blogging platforms out there have instant insert options, these will sometimes malfunction so it pays to know the raw code of html image placement. Below is the code for this small coffee cup image:
<img src=”http://damienriley.com/images/cafe.gif” alt=”” />
<img src=”http://damienriley.com/images/imgcode.png” alt=”” />
Excellent html image insertion and tweaking help can be found at this site.
Putting images in your theme. I love changing out images in themes. You can make a theme look totally different and it doesn’t require much skill or background knowledge. Basically, you just right click on any image in your theme. Once you know the filename, save or ftp out the image(s) and either replace them with the same sized one you want or edit the one that is there. In either case, save them and ftp them back into the images folder of your theme. I recently wrote an advanced tutorial on how to make a descending sidebar picture continued from the header in the WordPress default theme. It’s actually a useless project, but I learned a ton. Check it out.
Images can be frustrating. They pixelate if the height and width are wrong and do other annoying stuff. Don’t let these things get you down. If you have to, bypass the native image insertion of your blogging software and use raw html like the basic starts above. Also, have fun tweaking themes. It shows your reader you value your blog when you tweak it a little (or a lot as the case MAY be). I hope this helped someone out there starting. Blogging is great.
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