Uploading a blog

Hi Guys,

I hope you had a good trip home with the grandkids :)


I think the overall document size is to large to download, try removing the photos and insert them individually into the blog when you edit it.

Cheers Kev

Hi Mike & Lorraine

Just as Sir Kev has mentioned, if you are trying to do it in one big hit, it would be too big to upload at one time if you have lots of photos.

What I always do is write what you intend to say as a word document. Once you have finished this, Then go in and start the process of creating your new Blog.

First of all, then copy and paste the wording only into the text section. To give you an idea of what it looks like, use the preview button to see what the wording will look like.

When you are happy with this, then start the process of uploading your images into the sections of the text where you would like the images to appear.

Depending on how fast your internet is, try uploading say 3 images first to see if there are any issues. Once they have successfully been uploaded, again use the preview button to make sure the images are in the correct location. At this point, you can also make the images bigger to suit your own personal requirements.

Keep doing this process until you have uploaded all your images, and then give it a final preview before posting it live.

Another important step that I also do, if you intend to make it a photo rich blog, is save the blog setup, but untick the live view icon. In this way, what ever you save is not lost in the event that there is a major issue when uploading the photos.

Keep doing this every 20 or so images uploaded and when the last one is in place, tick the live view icon and it will be live for the world to see.


All the best and looking forward to reading your first Blog.



Cheers


Stephen

Have now lost about 5 hours of work due to absolute lack of knowledge of the language being used and my lack of experience in this area. Have decided to return to our previous method using email to circulate to friends and family. Thanks to Sir Kev, Stephen, et al but this has been one of the worst experiences I have ever had in this area and have only been working with computers since 1971.

Hi Mike and Lorraine

I use the method Stephen L describes; prepare the notes in Word then load to Blog, then add photos in strategic places, use Preview to get the text spacing around them looking neat. It does take a bit of time. You can go back and edit the Blog at any time if it doesn't look right. I update my old ones from time to time to ensure they give up to date information.

Don't give up.