Adding an Image

  1. It is important to size and edit your image before you add it to your site. Use an image edtitor such as Photoshop to resize your image and make it web-ready (72 dpi). Using the Mura editor to force your image to display a different size will cause distortion.
  2. Place the cursor in the area of the page that you want your image to live.
  3. Click the Insert/Edit Image  icon.
  4. This opens the Image Properties Dialog Box.
  5. Choose to Browse Server.
  6. The new window shows you the images already stored on your server. If your image has already been uploaded to the server mouse over the image titles to find your image and click its title.
  7. If your image has not been uploaded to the server, determine the manner in which the image should be stored for organizational purposes. Navigate to the folder in which you want your image to permanently reside. If there is not already a folder, you may want to create a new folder to store images for a particular page or section of your site. This organization does not affect how an image is displayed but you cannot move the image to a new folder once it has been uploaded so it is important to take image storage into consideration before you upload the image.
  8. Click Browse to search your hard drive or network for the image you want to upload.
  9. Select your image to be uploaded and click open.
  10. The filepath to your image will appear in the Browse field. Click Upload.
  11. After your image has finished uploading its title will appear in the list of images. Click your image title.
  12. Hit OK.
  13. Your image will appear in the editing window where you originally placed your cursor.
  14. Don't forget to save your work by choosing to Save as Draft or Publish.

Comments

Rachelle

Where can I find documentation on how to update an exisiting image?

November 5, 2009, 7:44 PM
Sean Schroeder

You can select the image and click the same image icon the toolbar or right-click on the image itself.

November 5, 2009, 7:49 PM
Rachelle

Thank you, Sean, for the response. Can you be more specific with your instructions? What view can I find the "Same Image Icon" and what does it look like? What view would I right-click the image to update it?

The issue I keep encountering is that I upload an image with the same name and Mura automatically renames it image(1).jpg instead of overwriting image.jpg. Perhaps there is an administrative setting that needs to be changed?

Thanks for your help!

November 10, 2009, 8:49 PM
Sean Schroeder

The image looks like the one you see above in this doc. You would right-click the image in wysiwyg mode in the editor...the mode you can see the image in.

Yes, it will automatically rename the image for you to something else to keep you from accidentally overwriting it. If you want to use a different version, either delete all of the existing ones and upload a new one, or just select one of the new, renamed ones you uploaded.

I wish I could just show you...I think you would be surprised how easy it is. If you'd like to try and screen share, send me your contact info via our contact form and we can figure out a time to show you real quick?

November 11, 2009, 1:17 AM
Rachelle

That does make sense now. I will just delete the existing image and then upload another one using the same file name.

Thanks again for all your help!

November 12, 2009, 6:01 PM
Seth Thompson

able to get this far but all i have on my finished page is a picture of a ? mark...

March 25, 2010, 2:32 PM
PAUL RAVENSCROFT

Hi

I am a relatively new user (not developer) of Mura. I have been looking at your Quick Start Tutorials. When I want to print a tutorial for my information, (or indeed any website page on the internet), the "portrait" orientation sometimes has words to the right of the page trunkated. To get round this, I normally change the orientation to "landscape" (using page setup). However, despite doing this, many of the tutorials are still trunkated. Why is this? Is it something to do with how you have constructed the tutorial wensite pages? Or something I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Best regards

Paul

June 1, 2010, 12:30 PM
Sean Schroeder

Hi Paul,

It must be in the way your print settings are configured...seems fine in both modes for me in both Firefox and Safari. What browser are you using?

June 1, 2010, 12:47 PM
PAUL RAVENSCROFT

Hi Sean

I must confess that my browser is Internet Explorer 7 (I have avoided 8).

However, at your suggestion, I have opened your tutorials in Firefox and all is well.

I like happy endings!

Many thanks

Best regards

Paul

June 3, 2010, 11:16 AM
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