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I tried to post this in the hints & tips section but cannot post there - so hopefully the moderators will format and move this.
While the document referenced in this post: http://community.theturninggate.net/vie … hp?id=6779 has some great tips, I feel that it is lacking in a couple of steps and observations that are specific to Backlight and users new to using this kind of tool for their website.
If you want to include an image on your home page (For example: see my website at - http://michaeltarmour.com/)
1. You need to get your image into a handy location on your hard drive. Either edited/exported out of Lightroom or other program.
2. You need to go in your web hosting server, via FTP or their interface, and create a folder that you want these stand-alone images housed. You can put this folder in the root structure of your website or in the /backlight folder. I chose to do the later and include a 'photos' folder in my backlight folder.
3. Upload the image(s) you plan to embed in the pages of your website to this newly created folder. To my knowledge - you cannot use the built-in Designer-Templartes-Uploaded Images tool for this task as it renames the uploaded image and strips the extension off.
4. To include the image in a specific page of your website you need to add code similar to that referenced in the article above. There are many sources online for web page coding that can be of further use.
For example: to get the image in the 'Page Copy' section of my home page, I added the following line of code to the 'Page Copy' field of 'Designer-Pages-Home-Design' - <img src="backlight/photos/home_image.jpg" width="600" class="alignleft">
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