Time for action—adding an image to your text box
- Find an image on the Internet that you would like to add to your text box. Janet goes straight away to a free images site she knows called "Stock Exchange" at: http://www.sxc.hu. She enters the word ePortfolio into the search box and finds some suitable images. She chooses an image of a man jumping in the air with his portfolio in hand.
- Copy the link to the image. You can usually do this by right-clicking on the image and clicking Copy image location.
- Reopen the text box on your profile page that you made earlier and click the Insert/edit image icon.
- You will see a dialogue box pop up. In the Image URL field, paste the location of the image that you copied in step 2.
- Give your image a relevant Image description. This shows when you hover over the image with your mouse cursor.
- Select the Alignment, Dimensions, Border, and Vertical space / Horizontal space for your image.
- When you have finished, click Insert. This is how Janet configured her image.
- You may find that you chose the wrong dimensions for your image. Rather than going back into the image editor by clicking on the image itself and then clicking the Insert/edit image button again, you can resize the image in the text editor itself by clicking and dragging the corners to stretch it. Seeing her image on the page itself, Janet decided that she wanted it to be bigger.
What just happened?
We just saw how to add an image to a text box in Mahara.
Why not play around yourself with a few text boxes on your profile page? Have a go at inserting an image into the text box. When you feel you are finished, toggle out of full screen mode and don't forget to click the green button to save your changes when you have finished your editing.