12/21/2009

How to Use Blogger As an Image Host



Most users of Blogger.com anticipate of it as artlessly a blogging platform. However, it can additionally be acclimated to host images that can be referenced from anywhere on the Internet. Here's how it works.


When you actualize a fresh blog column on your Blogger account, you accept admission to a card from which you can upload images. Since annual illustrations are important genitalia of blogs, best bloggers accept acclimated this feature. You accept a appealing acceptable bulk of abandon in abacus images to your blog. With your Google account, which your Blogger annual shares, you accept admission to up to 1 GB of annual storage.


If you appetite to use your Blogger annual as an angel host, actualize a fresh blog column and upload the image(s) that you appetite to host on the Blogger server. If you don't appetite to absolutely broadcast the column (you apparently won't if you're artlessly application the column as a way to upload images), you can accept to save it as a abstract instead. The actuality that Blogger doesn't accommodate an advantage for uploading images alfresco of creating a blog column indicates that Blogger's absorbed isn't to accept its arrangement acclimated as an angel host. However, there are some advantages to application Blogger's bureaucracy for hosting images as compared to some of the added chargeless angel hosting services. The capital advantage, abnormally for those whose images will be beheld excessively, is that there is no bandwidth limitation.


Accessing Your Image


After you accept uploaded an angel through a blog post, you can admission it by right-clicking the angel and allotment archetype articulation location. If you again appointment the affected articulation area url into addition browser window, you can see area the angel is stored.


To admission the absolute URL of your stored angel that you'll charge to use for hotlinking, you charge to right-click on the angel from the antecedent footfall (Copy Articulation Location) and baddest Archetype Angel Location. You'll apprehension that there is a slight aberration amid the two. The aboriginal footfall produced a url agnate to this:


https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2mBQrW-vXVZcSG2SSRbsCNwO-J4LWahfSkD87rfmkUWYo3t9s_58JH5erVhEatngqTNendp23-am-IlkeTNv798Wut7-wK5wG4ASFn_3vKFeGlQN2_ab2mnZrl-Tf5JV8ut_QJWqpANL/s1600-h/blogger-edithtml.jpg


The Archetype Angel Area footfall you performed after creates a URL that removes the -h allotment of the s1600-h agenda to actualize this:


https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2mBQrW-vXVZcSG2SSRbsCNwO-J4LWahfSkD87rfmkUWYo3t9s_58JH5erVhEatngqTNendp23-am-IlkeTNv798Wut7-wK5wG4ASFn_3vKFeGlQN2_ab2mnZrl-Tf5JV8ut_QJWqpANL/s1600/blogger-edithtml.jpg.


Now that you accept a URL that shows the exact area of your image, you can advertence that URL wherever you appetite to use the image.

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