For Blog Addicts Only: Putting Pictures In A Blog Post

For people who arrive here expecting business recovery advice, tips or other such stuff, please excuse this brief intermission.

I have lots of regular visitors who are incredibly talented, successful, and blog-addicted people. So this is a brief article just for them.

Many of them - and I very much doubt they will feel any offence if I mention this - have failed. They've made mistakes. Some of them huge. Some of them minor.

But I am blessed that they regularly visit this site.

At the risk of offending the regulars, I want to share a couple of tips about presenting blog posts with a few illustrations.

Firstly, my disclaimer:

- I'm no artist (I cheat - and I'll tell you how)

- I am no expert on layout - I have shamelessly plagiarised the layout of others

And Here's The Secret - Microsoft Word

The new header at the top of this blog is a little fuzzy to me (but I may need glasses, because I've noticed lately that I'm screwing my eyes up to read stuff).

Do you have Microsoft Word? If you do open it. And flick back between that, and this page.

If you can see the drawing toolbar, look at the options. Draw, Autoshapes, a line, an arrow, a rectangle, oval etc.

If you can't see the drawing toolbar, right-click your mouse on any other toolbar and choose "drawing" to see it appear.

But That's Not The Secret. It's This.

Play with Word objects. Learn. Make a picture by combining a few things together. Use the "Draw" drop down to align, centre, group object together. Create the object you want within Word.

But when you've got what you want, the secret is converting it into a jpeg.

An Example

Look for this symbol on your Word toolbar. Click it. You can then create a text-box.

Type some text in. You can then play around with the icons a bit further right on the tool bar to change:

1) Font colour

2) Fill colour

3) Line thickness etc

You can also combine two things together. Create another object - a rectangle, another text box, a circle etc.

If you then select an object, you can use the arrows on your keyboard to move them around. Or for fine tuning, hold down the control key and then arrow left, right, up or down for micro movements.

When you're happy with your object, hit the "Print Screen" button on our keyboard (or "Prt Sc" as it says on mine).

That copies whatever you see on screen to your clipboard.

If you then open "Paint" on your PC, and press "Control" + "V" together, you can paste what's on the clipboard into paint.

If you then click the "select" icon and drag and select the area of the screen you want, and press "Control" + "C" together, you have cut what you need to the clipboard.

Close and re-open paint. Press "Control" + "V" again and hey presto, you've copied just the bit you need into a single image.

Now save that as a jpeg, and you can now upload a customised image to your blog.

This isn't for every blog-addicted person. Content is far more important. However, it's worth knowing so you can illustrate what you say every now and again.

I'm happy to answer questions if you have any or help with any challenges. So fire away with any questions. I haven't road-tested this advice, so if there's any gaps, please let me know!

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