Blah..blah..blah... First of all, I have news and some babbling for all of you my dear (re)dears I would like to tell everyone to ignore my previous post. I am back to circulation of bloggers. When I got back with a good connection, I was surprised to have attained one of my goals: the Technorati Authority of at least 100. I do hope it just go on rising rather than going down or fluctuationg down and up and down and up again.

One of the fellow bloggers just made me think of posting how to make bigger photos in your blog posts or any posts you do online using html codes. I have seen so many small photos around considering I visit too many blogs in a day. I know that NOT all of us want bigger photos but I also know that others want it but they just do not have any idea how to. Just like me when I was starting out in blogging, the biggest image that I could put in a post is 400px by 400px which is the "large" photo as defined by Blogger photo uploader. I have always wanted to have bigger and more defined photos for most of my posts, where the details are shown.

Sample resized image to perfectly fit this post area. If you click the image, it will take you to its original location, which is part of linking images that will be noted in my next post. Stay tuned.

I want to share a knowledge that was previously shared to me as well: how to make the photos bigger. How I learned this was easy: i asked someone who posted so big and so clear photos how he did it and he replied to my PM to him in EC and I got it! That was one way and later on, I learned the tricks and discovered other ways to make it bigger.

How To Make Photos Bigger Yet Lighter?
Naturally, bigger photos have bigger space/bytes in it and so it, more often than not, slows down the page load. To make the photos lighter in the blog, and at the same time make these photos possible to be enlaged, I use free photo hosts (photobucket for me). There are many around there like flickr, photobucket, snapfish, etc, In case of photobucket, that is where I start.

1. Upload the photos to a free image hosting service (i.e., photobucket, flickr, snapfish, etc)

2. Copy the url or html code generated and provided for that image and include it in the post.

3. Resize the photo or image to your desired size

Learn From These Images and Captions
As an example, see that image above. That is an image i put in my other blog, and as you can see, if you click it, it goes where it was originally posted for a purpose. Here, it is posted as an example.

See the following images and I do wish you learn better as you see how with the images and the captions.


This is the image and the possible links for various usage. Just copy the link you want at the "Image Link Code" and paste it in your post. You may copy it as well from the album summary but I clicked that photo from my album to put emphasis on it and where the codes can be found. I use the html code rather than the other three because of practicality and ease of editing because html code is more complete than any of the others.

You can see here the difference between the raw code that was pasted and what I exactly used in my blog. The blue text means they are original from the copied code while the RED texts indicate the possibility of resizing (adding that code)to the original html code. Take note that the "height" and "width" were not in the original code, just add it and put your own size. Regular blogger size give a maximum of 400px while this one, you can see that I even extended the height to up to 1000px. Just see the difference in the sample image above.

The other new/colored texts in the new code, you will learn what are their purpose in my next post about linking photos and giving them keywords for them to be searchable in search engines.

In case of uploading and resizing with Blogger photo uploader, that is even easier. However, I don't directly upload through blogger as I have said earlier, they might overload the site and make my pages load very slow. For blogger uploads, just see the image how easy it is to resize the images.

This is the biggest image if one would not resize using blogger.. Can you see the difference between the resized image that I have posted for clarity up??? There is a whole ocean of difference, right???

Take note however that you cannot resize bigger that your blog space, especially the width limit. As for my pages (from this blog), the maximum width that I can allow is 530px. If you have any questions, of if this post is too vague, I always accept constructive criticism. Hope you learned.