Comments on: Pictures?

By: A Novel Woman

A Novel Woman — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:41:57 +0000

I go back and forth between Edit HTML and Compose for exactly that reason (also font size and colour are only available in Compose but not in Edit HTML) and then I check the look of it using preview before posting.

Odd about the photo upload though. The photo icon appears in both Edit HTML and Compose on my blog and I use blogger. Odd.

Pam (from snowy Montreal!)

By: Karen Henry

Karen Henry — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:19:45 +0000

Delighted that I could help! Blogger is just weird sometimes.

Karen

By: Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:10:26 +0000

Thanks to all of you–especially Karen, who discovered the answer! (For reasons unknown, when I allowed it to change to the new editor, it came up in "Edit HTML" mode as the default for starting a new post.)

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:44:47 +0000

I always upload my pics to http://www.photobucket.com and use the link from there.

By: Karen Henry

Karen Henry — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:54:09 +0000

P.S. Here's a page with screenshots showing how to switch between the new and old post editor, in case you need it.

here

Karen

By: Lizzie Walker

Lizzie Walker — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:53:02 +0000

If you open up a blank posting you should see on the same line where the font, text color, etc there is a word that says LINK then a picture frame (attach picture) and then an old movie caption (attach video).

By: Karen Henry

Karen Henry — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:50:05 +0000

Take a look at this:

here

Note they say the image icon is NOT visible in "Edit HTML" mode, only in "Compose" mode. So, it looks like you have two alternatives, if you want to keep using Blogger's built-in editor:

1) Go back to using the old post editor (go to Settings, click on Basic tab, which should be the first one, then scroll to the bottom until you see the option for "Select post editor". Set it to "Old editor". (This is what I use, because I don't like what it does with the paragraph spacing in the new editor.) Click "Save Settings" at the very bottom. Go back to your post-a-message window and try again.

2) If you want to keep using the new post editor, make sure that you are in "Compose" and not "Edit HTML" mode. These tabs (located just above the box in which you type your blog post) work just like the Design/HTML tabs on Compuserve, EXCEPT that the new Blogger post editor apparently doesn't display the image icon on the toolbar in "Edit HTML" mode, so if you want to add a picture, you have to be in "Compose" mode. (Which is pretty stupid, IMHO, but that's another story....)

Good luck!

Karen

By: Rashlien

Rashlien — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:41:06 +0000

When you add a post are you entering it under the "Edit HTML" tab or under the "Compose" tab. Mine defaulted to "Edit HTML" and there is no add image there. However under the "Compose" tab the image icon is available.

By: Deb - Mom of 3 Girls

Deb - Mom of 3 Girls — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:00:10 +0000

It's been a while since I used Blogger, but I went in and checked on my old dashboard and I still have the picture icon there right next to the spell check one. I second Karen's suggestion though – I only use Windows Live Writer to post to my blogs and it's a much better interface than either Blogger or WordPress!

By: adventures north

adventures north — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:48:11 +0000

Maybe Blogger's mad at you for all those cliffhangers in Echo? (-;

My photo icon's still there, too.