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Stepping forward
Shoppers hunting for a shoe shop that prides itself on its fantastic levels of service need look no further than Young & Co's new website. [more...]
Anyone for Tennis?
Take a look at the work we recently completed for the Inverclyde Community Tennis Initiative, who promote tennis across the Greenock and Inverclyde area. [more...]
Simple but effective
Our single page web sites are highly cost effective and for many business represent a complete solution that is delivered rapidly to their specification. [more...]
Independant dancers
Glasgow-based Indepen-dance worked with us to create a new, accessible website that can be quickly and easily updated by their team. [more...]
Love pizza?
We enjoyed building a new website for Canadian pizza business Chris's Pizza. To find out more, read on! [more...]
Case study: Trees of Scotland
Find out more about the website we built for Trees of Scotland, an Ayrshire business that aims to recreate a natural Scottish woodland. [more...]
Uploading and adding photos
Good, well written copy will really make your website stand out, however you can improve upon the attention-grabbing nature of your posts and pages if you add a little sparkle with some images.
We will assume that you are already familiar with the process of editing and creating new pages. Thankfully, there is surprisingly little more for you to learn in order to integrate photos and even animations.
Let us imagine that we wish to add a photo of our mascot, Klaus (you can see him on the left!), to one of our pages.
The first thing we have to do is select the relevant page for editing. Next, we need to decide where about within the flow of text we wish to position our image: you should position the text cursor at this point.
Slightly above where the text is edited you will see the words Upload/insert and some buttons. The first of these buttons allows you to upload or insert an existing image.
Clicking on this will bring up a new dialogue. You will notice that there are three tabs in this dialogue, From Computer, From URL and Media Library. Let’s quickly run through what each of these means.
From Computer means that you are going to upload an image from your own PC. From URL lets you use a photo that already exists on someone else’s website. Finally, and very usefully, all of the images, movies and sounds that you upload are stored in a special media library. By clicking Media Library you will see a list of these and you can reuse them wherever you want.
The default option is to upload an image from your computer. Simply click on Select file, hit OK and wait a few seconds while the image uploads and crunches.
You can now describe the image by completing the title and description fields, and, because Wordpress automatically resizes the image for you, you can choose the size you want to insert onto your page (full size, thumbnail etc).
With that done, simply click on the Insert into Post button and, as if by magic, the photo will appear within the text editor box.
