The Picture
There are, of course, copyright issues when posting an image to your blog, and technically it can be a little harder to post an image than it is post plain text (though increasingly blogging engines make this simpler). Here are some tips for posting images:Make a local copy of the image on your own server. Don't "inline" someone else's images by linking directly to the other person's server, because this uses their bandwidth and server cycles to serve images on your blog. This is rude.
Crop and resize images to small thumbnails, sufficient to give your readers an idea of what they'll see if they follow the link. This is both a principle of fair use of others' copyrighted works and a means of reducing the load time for your page.Use the height, width and alt attributes in your image tags, which reduce load times for your readers. If you're worried about copyright, send a note to the image's author asking for permission before posting.
