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 Friday  10th February  2012

How to add a picture to an Article

Introduction - This article describes how to add pictures to articles such as News.

Before you begin you need to prepare the image/logo to be 'web-ready' - it needs to be no wider than 470 pixels for full width or 200 to 300 pixels wide for half width to allow text wrapping, and saved lowercase no spaces as a gif or jpg file.

1. Do steps 1 to 7 on How to Publish an Article

2. To upload your new 'web-ready' picture click the image button new-image

3. Click the browse button at the bottom of the popup and select your image, Click the Open button and then the Upload Button (you should get a message confirming when the upload is successful)

4. Now Click on the file in the Images list

5. You can change the properties of the image selected

6. Image Align - select Right if you want to wrap the text around the left etc..

7. Description - Type a description of the image (creates tag when user floats over - e.g. BAA Stansted)

8. Caption - type text that will appear under picture, check the "caption" tick box

 

9. IMPORTANT - You must now click the Apply button

11. Finally Click the Savesave button

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