By Lil Chris on

This will probalby sound silly, but I will ask anyway...

Is there a proper way to insert images into my articles / pages / site...?

Thanks,
Lil Chris

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ibeeby commented

I don't consider myself to be an expert but this is what _I_ do:

1/ Install TinyMCE wysiwyg editor (follow installation instructions _carefully_ (I don't use the TinyMCE compressor because I have had mixed results with it);
2/ Install the Image module and img_assist module and follow instructions to enable in TinyMCE (you need to edit a file but it is simple enough);
3/ When editing content with TinyMCE there is an additional button provided by img_assist to include an image. It _is_ possible, so I believe, to upload the image using the image module (below the editor window) but I manually upload to the /files directory by ftp before pressing this button;
4/ The button brings up a small window allowing you to enter the path to the image (e.g. /files/image.jpg) and you can (and probably should) also enter title and description for it - the latter appears in the ALT field in the generated HTML code which is helpful for people using screen readers and a requirement for many licensed images;
5/ In the second page of the image menu you can set the displayed size and its orientation with respect to your cursor. For instance, if you put your cursor at the beginning of your paragraph of text and set this orientation to 'RIGHT' the image appears to the right of your paragraph and your text will wrap around it if the image is small compared to the amount of text in your paragraph; and
6/ You can also using the advances option put a link behind your image so that clicking the image takes the user somewhere else, such as the page the image refers to.

Note that this formatting doesn't always display as you expect with Safari (shame Apple) but otherwise seems to work quite well - especially with fixed width themes such as Andreas01 and Andreas03 or the built-in themes.

Note that for all of the Drupal sites I am administering (currently four) I am the sole administrator so I have not yet had to teach anyone else how to do this - which I can imagine might result in cries of 'Oh Glory!';-)

I hope this helps you.

Ian

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Ian Beeby
Webmaster
Peak Intelligence Ltd

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Lil Chris commented

I see what your saying, I will have to try and do some testing...

Thanks,
Lil Chris

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zumbe commented

This week I've been trying three different insert-image methods with TinyMCE: IMCE, Img_assist and G2image with embedded Gallery2. Somehow I seem to need all three for different purposes.

IMCE is the easy way, very straightforward, I use it whenever I just want to upload and add a picture to a post/page. Installation was a breeze. No albums, but who needs all those albums anyhow?

Img_assist is more complicated to install but enables all the image module stuff: upload a high-res picture that is re-sized to smaller versions presented in albums, browse these images to pick an image for inserting in a post. You need to add the excellent image_enhanced_scaling module to make thumbnails and re-sized photos look sharp and crisp.

But image module isn't enough if you have many (dozens) users uploading many (hundreds) of photos in all sorts of formats. That one calls for embedding gallery2 with the gallery module. Installing gallery2 wasn't that difficult. But theming the embedded gallery2 pages to go with the drupal theme, and installing the g2image button for TinyMCE, was, well, too challenging for me, so far.

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Lil Chris commented

Upon further research I realized I have FCKeditor installed, which is supposed to be able to insert pictures. But, I seem to be having quite a time getting it to work, pictures show up in the preview (inside fckeditor) just not when the page is published... and it says something about not being configured to upload files. (although, I can upload files manually, and insert the path) they just won't display in the page...

So i'm having difficulty so far too...