Folksy is an online marketplace for British designers and makers, it has it's own
Forum where you can chat and showcase your items, here is a quick guide to how I put a picture onto the Forum, and like anything else... it's easy when you know how.
Doing a small thumbnail of an item is easy peasy, you just go to the item you want to show and copy the url at the top of the page, then go to the forum and past the url into the REPLY box, this gives a small thumbnail of the item you want to showcase.
If you want to show a larger image on that will take you direct to the image in your shop, there's a little bit more you have to do.
I've done a few screenshots of me putting a picture on, I hope this will make it easier to follow.
I find it easier to have two tabs open, one of my shop and the other of the forum page.
On the forum go to the Reply Box and click on the 'upload icon' (the line with an up arrow)
A new box will open, choose 'From the Web' and click on 'Show More' this will give you 2 boxes.
Go to the image you want to show and right click 'Copy Image Location' and paste it into the top box.
Next copy your image url and paste it into the bottom box.
Click on the 'Upload' button and hey presto your image is on the forum post, press 'Reply' and you're done.
It's a clickable pic and it will take you directly to the image in your shop.
You can use this same process if you want to show a picture from elsewhere on the web, for example, a blog or twitter etc.
I hope this has been helpful to you.
Jan x
