Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Adding your photo to your blogger profile.
1. Use your favorite photo editor to crop and resize your picture to about 80x80 pixels - then save as JPG. If the file is bigger than 50K, set the options for JPG saves for lower quality/higher compression until it is smaller than 50K.
2. Find out where you have some personal web space from your ISP. For MAC users with a mac.com account, it might be somewhere like: http://homepage.mac.com/youraccountname/.Public/YOURPICTURE.JPG. Read the help for uploading JPG or GIF images. (You may have to request or activate personal web space before you can upload anything). Upload your compressed photograph.
3. Log in to blogger.com. In blogger Dashboard select "Edit Profile". Go down to "Photo URL" and enter the location of your picture exactly as it was saved. This is case sensitive so be careful.
4. Don't forget to scroll to the bottom and press the "Save Profile" button.
If the URL is invalid, or the JPG/GIF is too large you will get an error message.
Audio Clip
You can put the URL for a small MP3 file in the audio link using the same process. (Compress, upload, add link to profile) I've tried it with MP3 files up to about 225K if you can scrunch your audio that much. (try 48K ABR, mono )
1. Use your favorite photo editor to crop and resize your picture to about 80x80 pixels - then save as JPG. If the file is bigger than 50K, set the options for JPG saves for lower quality/higher compression until it is smaller than 50K.
2. Find out where you have some personal web space from your ISP. For MAC users with a mac.com account, it might be somewhere like: http://homepage.mac.com/youraccountname/.Public/YOURPICTURE.JPG. Read the help for uploading JPG or GIF images. (You may have to request or activate personal web space before you can upload anything). Upload your compressed photograph.
3. Log in to blogger.com. In blogger Dashboard select "Edit Profile". Go down to "Photo URL" and enter the location of your picture exactly as it was saved. This is case sensitive so be careful.
4. Don't forget to scroll to the bottom and press the "Save Profile" button.
If the URL is invalid, or the JPG/GIF is too large you will get an error message.
Audio Clip
You can put the URL for a small MP3 file in the audio link using the same process. (Compress, upload, add link to profile) I've tried it with MP3 files up to about 225K if you can scrunch your audio that much. (try 48K ABR, mono )
