Uploading Images to Blogger

Students using their U of Alberta gmail addresses have had considerable problems with uploading images. Here is what AICT said:

"Picasa is not an enabled application within our domain. I tested uploading an image from the web, which worked, and an image from my computer, which didn't. It looks like Blogger tries to upload images from your computer into a Picasa album, which, since it's not enabled, does not exist for ualberta accounts. Unfortunately there are no plans to enable Picasa for ualberta accounts. A workaround may be to get your students to create an account on an image hosting site (such as www.imgur.com), then link to those images, or use the upload from the web option to "upload" the picture to their Blogger accounts."

Good thing you all have those flickr accounts anyway! :)


Additionally, adding images via the html method also works as I demonstrated in class:

"If you need some good clip art images, check out 321ClipArt.com.The <IMG> (Image) tag is a 'one-sided' tag and requires several attributes for successfully embedding an image on your page:
SRC=
If you have a graphic image with the filename my_picture.gif then you would enter the filename as the Value for the SRC= attribute, like this:
<IMG SRC="my_picture.gif">WIDTH= and HEIGHT=
You can set the height and width attributes like this:
<IMG SRC="picname.gif" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="200">The numbers I used refer to the image size in PIXELS. The above image would therefore appear on the page as 100 pixels wide, and 200 pixels high.
ALT=
It is ALWAYS a good habit to include the ALT= attribute. Some people turn OFF their browsers ability to display pictures for faster performance, and if you do not have a text description to replace the graphic, they won't be able to do or see much on your site. This is especially important if you have a menu built with graphic menu choices."

Read more at the HTML Clinic.

Image from Matt Northam.