Hosting a picture or flash on homepage.

Hi how can i host a image or swf file on my homepage , the html editor only allows you to post a image link from another hosting site like tinypic. please help. also i dont want it to slow my site down. many thanks

mytherapysession.com - on the homepage in an html block i have added a pic - use the full url of where your image is located on your domain - ie: http://www.your-domain.com/images/image.jpg

hi were did you put the image file

i used the image insert in the html editor - the icon that looks like a tree

sorry i mean were did you keep the image before you posted it

You can link to images anywhere on your system by giving the path to that file.  You can link relative or insert the full path; http://your_domain.tld/images/my_pretty_photo.ext/  You can pull from a template directory.  What I would do is to create a directory in the root; say images, and put all the images that I want to use but not be part of the regular Dolphin directories into that directory.  If you don't want the directory to be loaded into a web browser you can put a simple index file in that folder.  You can also .htacess it to prevent browsing if using Apache.

as geek_girl said - I have the image in a folder called images on my domain

HI CAN YOU CREATE A SCREEN SHOT OF WERE I CAN PUT THIS IMAGE FOLDER CAN I PUT SWF FILES ALSO IN THE SAME FOLDER

HI CAN YOU CREATE A SCREEN SHOT OF WERE I CAN PUT THIS IMAGE FOLDER CAN I PUT SWF FILES ALSO IN THE SAME FOLDER

the icon to add image is in the upper right - looks like a tiny tree

After clicking the icon - you should get a popup like so - I actually uploaded my images to the media/images folder - so i did not need to add the http://www.my-domain.com/

sorry i mean were can i store the images and swf files so it can generate a link , do i create a folder then upload it via ftp.

 yes

hi were do i put this file and what can i name it , sorry i have not done this before

ok, what i did was simple to me

First off, do you have the actual image on your computer, if so, then you can name it whatever you want - just dont change the extrension (the .jpg - or whatever at the end).

second, upload that image to your media/images folder on your domain.

third - open or add your html block to your homepage in page builders. Click the icon that looks like a tree in the upper right section, and in the imageURL field put: media/images/whatever-your-pic-name-is.jpg (or whatever your file extension is).

Then click update. If everything is proper, you should end up with a large image in your html block now. If so - click on the image, click the tree icon again, and adjust your settings such as height and width and description and alignment. Then update again.