… but we had this conversation already.
The “Insert Image” button requires the URL of the image itself, not the page where the image is displayed (with ads, etc.) by the host (Imagebox, Picasa, Postimage.org, whatever).
The “Insert Link” button is used to create a link to a page. That’s all. That Link you make will be any page, including the one where the host shows your image, or the URL of the image itself. This merely makes a Link and does NOT allow BLF to scale the image in any way, and throws the whole “image” concept into the trash. Not to mention wrecking everyone’s page display!
When your host shows you your image full size (specific steps depend on the host’s middleware), meaning not a thumbnail, right-click on it & see if there’s an option to “View” the image or “Copy” the shortcut or link location. If your browser is configured to show you what’s going on, you can simply select the URL from the Address Bar…
When you have the URL for the image itself, then the “Insert Image” link will work perfectly for you.
Lastly, look at the bottom of the “Insert Image” dialog… That URL is what will come up if you click on the picture. If you want to be nice to us, just paste the same URL in both; but if you want to “drive click traffic” to your host, put the URL they give you in the “URL” box of the “Insert Image” dialog. If you don’t fill in the “URL” box, the cursor won’t make the hand when you point at the picture. BUT, we can still use the right-click=>View Image method to see the full monty.
Don’t forget to set the relative width to 100% or less, PLEASE?
The “Insert Link” button should probably be only used for links like this one to Google’s search for ‘URL’…
Clear as mud? Go back & re-read the OP, with this new knowledge of Uniform Resource Locators and how some URLs point to images and some point to pages that show images. The ones that point to the actual images (they’ll end in “.jpg” or “.gif” or some such, not “.htm”) are the only ones that work in the “Insert Image” button; and BLF’s middleware is not able to successfully display any image via the “Insert Link” button. Just the opposite of what you said.
Whew!
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