If you want to line your images up nicely without using the gallery you can insert a table. Bear in mind that the table WITH the images must fit within your page.  You cannot use the editing window as a guide, you must preview your page to be sure it looks ok.

Make sure you have the kitchen sink open and look for the table icons on the bottom row.  Hover over each icon to learn what does what.

Insert your image making sure that the alignment is set to NONE. Always use None when using a table.  If you want a border, now is the time to add it using the advanced tab. If you forget and want to add a border after creation, click somewhere in the table cell that is not the image, find the table cell properties icon, click on the advanced tab and select your color.   You can see that I’ve added it to two cells below.

If you want to use larger photos, use the gallery option, however this would also work with larger photos if you used one column per row.

You wouldn’t pay to have a bricks and mortar store built, add your inventory, decorate your shop window then only visit it once a year, would you?  So why do you do that with your website? What stops you from updating your website more often?  Let’s start a discussion and see if we can find some solutions.

To create linked text in your blog postings, type the text you want to add the link to.  Then select it with your cursor.  Until the text is selected the link icons will be grayed. After selecting the text they will be available for you to use.

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The idea of blogging is to be interesting and/or informative and to drive people to view your blog and/or website, so any time you have an opportunity to keep people on your site it is worth while to do so.

Embedding a video on a blog means that the viewer can look at the video right then and there without leaving your website.  It’s a very simple process.
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Images liven up a blog post but there are many ways to add them.  As always, make sure you have the “Kitchen Sink” open.  Do that automatically any time you post so that you can SEE the options that are available to you.  (Remember that hovering over icons tells you their purpose and/or function.)  Let’s use the first icon next to the Upload/Insert words above the kitchen sink rows.   First, place your cursor where you want the image to be.

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Entering text is quite easy, you just type.   However, if you are copying from a Word document you MUST find and use the Paste from Word icon to strip the formatting as Word doesn’t always play nicely with other applications, like a blog.  (Some people are also experiencing problems when trying to paste anything using Internet Explorer. That is usually due to your settings, so you will need to find the problem setting or use Firefox.)
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