Helen Bascom KMA

I’ve gotten several inquiries about how to make those little thumbnail links on my public profile page. So here ya go everyone who wants to know how to do it.

Let’s do it step by step.

PART I

If you have tabs on your internet browser, right click on your tab “art” from “my bubble” and open it in a new tab. If you don’t have tabs open “art” in a new window. You’ll bet switching between these two.

In the first tab, where you are at “my bubble” go to “edit my profile.” Put the cursor where you want the picture to appear. Now, click on the window or tab where your “art” is located.

Once there select the small thumbnail you want to display on your homepage. Right click and select properties. You will see an “http:/” address in that window. COPY THE ENTIRE LOCATION by right clicking and selecting copy.

Next click on the tab or window that has your “edit my profile” open.

Now, Where your cursor is located do this:

1. type an exclamation point(!)
2. right click and select “paste”
3. type an exclamation point (!)

That will place the small thumbnail on your page (keep your “edit profile” open and don’t save yet) . Now if you want to link that small image to the a category of images do the following right next to the last exclamation point with no spaces:

4. in the second tab or window where your “art” is displayed, go to “my bubble” select “view public profile” and right click on the address bar and copy the web address there
5. go back to the tab or window where your open “edit profile” is located and place the cursor at the end of the last exclamation point
6. type a colon (:) and then right click and “paste” the web address there
7. now type the following after your username in the web address (remember no spaces): /art/everything/tags/ANYTAGWORD

“ANYTAGWORD” is the tag word that you use for a group of photos, like “flowers” or “abstract”

8. select “save changes” and then . . .

TA DA you have inserted a linked picture.

Now if you click on that photo, all your work that has the same tag words will be displayed in a new page nicely grouped together. Just make sure that the photos you want displayed in the group all have the same tag word.

HERE IS WHAT THE FINAL LINKED IMAGE TEXT SHOULD LOOK LIKE (WITHOUT SPACES):

!http://images-2.redbubble.com/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/197061-8-autumn-gold.jpg ! :http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbascom/art/everything/tags/flower

Here’s the result:

PART II

If you want your photo links side by side (like mine) just place one space between each link.

If you want them in a column, press ENTER at the end of each link.

PART III

Do this for each photo link you want to place in your profile.