During your blogging career there are many occasions when there is a need to upload a file or a picture to a free host. The need for this arises because Blogger only allows uploading of images and videos to it at present.
You may want to put music in your blog, provide links to download PDF/PPT/DOC/EXCEL etc. files. You may also want to put pictures in the background of your blog. You CANNOT link to files on your machine as it is not a server connected 24x7 to the Internet.
Hence you have to upload your files to FREE HOSTING which gives you space to store your files and link to them. One free host provided by Google is Googlepages at http://pages.google.com. To upload files to it follow these steps :
1. Login to http://pages.google.com.
2. In bottom frame of sidebar click the 'upload' link.
3. Browse button will show. Click it.
4. Explorer window will open.
5. Navigate to your music file on PC and select it.
6. Click Open.
7. File will upload and appear as a link.
8. Right click the link and select Copy Shortcut to get the URL of the file.
9. Paste the URL in code.
Another free host is Photobucket.com. Create a free account on it. Login to your account. Click the Browse button under "Upload Images from my PC". The Explorer window will open. Navigate to the file on your PC and select it. Click Open. Then click Upload button. The file will be uploaded to Photobucket and appear below. Under each file picture are provided four links :
1. Email & IM
2. Direct Link
3. HTML Code
4. IMG Code
Left Click once in the 'Direct Link' box and the file link is automatically copied to the clipboard. You can then paste it in any code. If you want to provide the file as a download use this code :
<a href="LINK_OF_FILE">Download</a>
Replace the CAPS with actual link of file as copied above.
If you want to show the picture on your blog Left-Click once in the 'Html Code' box and then paste the code in Edit Html tab of Post Editor or in a Html Page Element and save.
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12 comments:
You did not say that it was necessary to have a gmail account - what is that?
Allan
Allan,
You already have a Gmail account as you are on Blogger. If not open one at Gmail.com. It is free.
If you don't want one you can always upload to Photobucket.com.
I have opened a gmail a/c - but still seems very messy as I seem to have to login twice with old blog uid/pwd and also new gmail ones.
Further - and most importantly - I do NOT seem able to change the source code on my Blog Template (in order to make the View My Complete Profile link work (which it does not, and Google should fix this).
My intention was to change the href link to the complete profile page I constructed on Google Pages.
Allan,
You cannot change the link in the profile widget. Instead create a second profile widget.
wonderfull tips thank you
very useful ... really good blog
Nice blog post! My blog is also do follow, great to find other blogs with no follow turned off. Keep up the good work!
hello vin
can u help me this problem?
Sorry, there was an error uploading your video. Please contact support
and include the following information:
Blog Id:36622988
Video Id:1e47ea8722db5e67
thanks a lot
salome
meeshoke,
Try the Youtube method to show videos on Blogger.
i've made gmail account.i opened this http://pages.google.com.and try to login.but it says,Google Page Creator is no longer accepting new sign-ups.If you would still like to create your own free website, please use Google Sites.
but at google sides,i dont think i can upload filesand etc.
please help.thanks.
nurasyikinrosly,
Just Google for 'free file hosting'.
Thanks. it works.
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