Once you have achieved the level of having your ain domain and website it is significant to cognize how to place such things onto the website. One such item that is frequently leaved away owed to lack of ability is photographs. Photographs are unlike banners in so much as you first have to re-size them and infect them an URL from your ain domain, while simplistic enough it however seems to elude a lot of people that desire to upload some of their ain pictures…

Having a website is one thing, but adding content to it exactly how we wish to is another, in most cases populating working on websites these days tend to use a HTML Editor or WYSIWYG Editor (What You See Is What You Get), which makes things a whole lot easier.

To start with most picture images or photographs we take tend to be quite a large size file, this means in actual visible size and megabytes, so the first thing we need to do is reduce this so as not to use too much domain space as well as slowing the loading of the entire webpage down.

So assuming that we have imported the photo onto our computer the next stage is to reduce its size. There are some free software downloads online that can resize the picture, but also using the Paint, which is a windows application will do the trick just as well.

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For using Paint you will first need to open the picture from where you have it saved to, then by selecting the Image tab at the top of the page a drop down menu will appear where you can pretty much do most things to the picture, but for this exercise we will need to select Resize/Skew this will open a box where we can change the size properties. When first using the Paint application it is always better to test the edited image until the correct size is achieved, probably about 15 to 30% should be more than enough.

Once the desired size of image is achieved we will need to give this photo an unique name, one that we will recognise what it refers to if we just saw it in URL format. This way when we save the URL along with all the others we will know which one relates to which picture.

So far we have resized and saved the picture on our computer, now we need to upload it to our domain, for this we will need to open our domain and access the control panel. As most domain panels vary due to hosting it is difficult to go through every control panel procedure, but as cPanel seems to be the most common we will use this type for the upload procedure.

First we will need to open the File Manager, then if we have not already got one Create New File from top menu and call it Images, go into images and select upload files, in the boxes that appear select browse and locate where the photo that we have resized is on our computer, choose the photograph once located and put a tick in the Overwrite existing file box, then click on the Upload button.

On the right hand side you will get a text stating that your upload has been successful. Close the page and you should see the text for your photograph, by clicking the image preceding the text in the left hand column you should see details appear in the right hand side including the URL. Click the URL and a new window will open revealing the exact image that you have just uploaded from your computer to your domain.

It is important to keep records of ANY domain URL that you create.

Now you need to open up your HTML Editor or WYSIWYG Editor and the webpage that you have been creating.  Select where you want to place the image on your webpage and install, this is normally done by selecting Image from the top tab menu in most Editors and adding the URL and an Alternate text.

After installing the image your webpage will now display the photograph once you upload the edited webpage to the domain or re-upload it to overwrite existing file.