Adding images to Joomla Articles

Easy steps for adding images to your Joomla CMS. Click on any images to see them larger.

• log into admin
• choose media manager as seen below
  

• At the bottom of the media manager window you'll see an empty box followed by a "browse" button, followed by a "start upload" button.
• click on "browse" and find the image file you wish to upload, then click on "start upload".
• You should see your image in the thumbnails (the small pics) as in the image below.
  

• Go to the control panel to add a new article (or edit a previous one).
• In the article box you should see a "tree" image - this is what you click on to "add an image"

• An image box will pop open and you type in the full URL (http://www.yoursite.com/images/filename.extention) of the image for example see below image.
• After you add the image URL, you can add a description and title (good for search engines) you should see a snap shot of the image in the box if done correctly.

• Next you can click on the Appearance tab of the same pop up box
• You can decide the position of the image in the text of the article (center, right or left side)
• You can set 10 vertical and horizontal space around the image
• You can make a border around the image (a black box).
• BE SURE to click on insert after your done!
  

• Your image should now show in the article box!

I am NOT Facebook...I swear!

Like most people these days I have a facebook page. I had a strange thing happen recently and I thought it may happen to someone else, so I'm sharing.

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View it Here.com - Ring Guards and Ring Wraps

Promote Your Page Too

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Over a course of a month I received a whole lot of phone calls (and posts on the discussion) from people who had issues with FaceBook. At first, I admit - it was kind of funny. People were calling and contacting me asking to grant them access to their accounts, complaining about being harassed, asking to block users (and some of the stories made me bust a gut). However, it wasn't so funny after a month so I had to investigate further.

I started really questioning people where they found our contact information. How were they "searching" for it. What search engine, what links? I took some creative questioning but I found out some interesting things and finally solved my problem!!

People were going to Yahoo Answers and searching "Facebook Contact Information". The returned search was to:

FaceBook | Contact Information

What this means is the "answer" Yahoo gave was on FaceBook - which happened to have a page titled "Contact Information" within one of it's page profiles (my profile).

People did not read the information in that Thread or they just scanned it for a phone number. The thread clearly states what company the page promotes, and when they call our answering box states our company name. Still....the messages came, and came.

I deleted the whole thread and made a new threat titled "Viewithere.com Contact". Problem solved! Now yahoo answers will find the page:

FaceBook | ViewitHere.com Contact

Not a single FB related call since. There are some interesting people on Facebook - I think I know why they do not make their contact information available. *L*

:)