A picture can make our blog more beautiful. Pictures are not just for accessories but sometime we also need to give more information beside of our articles. But we can not save the picture in our own computer also in our blog, because blogspot doesn’t give this service. So we need a place to save the picture or image hosting. There are many sites which give free service. We can use Photobucket, www.photobucket .com, as hosting for save our pictures for header and articles. If we want make gallery, Flickr – www. Flickr.com- also give free service as image hosting.

Photobucket.

In photobucket, we can save our pictures, video and slide show. To use photobucket service we have to register as member. Please click Join Now or Sign Up, fill the form to register than clicking Done. Lets go!

We will be offered free sponsor, but if don’t want just ignore it. Click No and Submit to Continue. Open My Album, and download your pictures. Image/picture which we download and their URL will be shown. We can make this image as header or to give accessories or more information of our articles by copying the URL and put it in our template.

Showing Picture in Blog

We have saved our picuter in image hosting. But the picture can not be shown in our blog. We need to insert html code in our template to show our picture. The code is:






If we want to make this picture as header, just put the code above in header area. Open your template - edit html, than looking for header side. Click preview to show the result, than don’t forget to click Save Template Change.

But if we want show the picture as accessories of our articles, it is more easy. We don’t need html code. When posting articles, click add image in toolbar. Than insert URL code from Photobucket. Click Upload Image.

Flickr

To access flickr we need email account in Yahoo. So if you don’t have email in yahoo, you have to sign up first.

Open http://www.flickr.com/, than sign in using ID and password of yahoo email. Than make your Flickr name, after finish we can upload the picture. After uploading we can give title and description of our pictures. Don’t forget to click Save.

Before we show our pictures as photo gallery in blog, we have to make design of gallery badge.

• Open Flickr badge. www.flickr.com./badge_new.gne
• There are 2 choices of badge. HTML or FLASH. For clear gallery choose HTML. For Flash just showing gallery in small pictures. Than click Next: Choose Photos
• There are 3 choices. All your public photos for showing all of our pictures. Your public tag tagged with for showing your pictures with certain tag. Everyone to showing everyone pictures in our album. Than click Next: color
• In this step we asked for to decide, we show our buddy icon and name screen or no, the amount of photo which be displayed, the newer photo or older photo, the size and orientation of photo. Click Next: Color
• Choose badge color include of background and text color. After finish, click Next : Preview & Get Code
  We will get code, just copy and paste in your blog template.