Adding Images to the Destiny Homepage
Destiny does not provide a space to ‘upload’ images or graphics to include on your Destiny homepage,
but you can use images or graphics that are available elsewhere on the web. This guide will step you
through the process of using the Carroll County Content Management System, or CMS, to store images
or graphics, and then explain how to ‘link’ to those images or graphics using Destiny .
Before you plan to use an image, be sure it is ‘optimized’ for the web. This means that the file size of the image is
no greater than about 500k. If it is much larger than that (600k and greater), then you will want to prepare the
image for the web. This can be done quite easily by using a program on your computer called “Microsoft Office
Picture Manager”. Find it in Start / Programs / Microsoft Office / Microsoft Office Tools /.
Once you have some images or graphics on your computer, go to the CMS and login. (If you do not have
an account, place a Helpdesk call and ask for one and either Tim or Paula will be in touch to set you up
with one.) Click on a content page and follow the directions in the screenshots that follow.
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Note: *Supplying alternative text is a federal requirement so people with visual issues can be read the content using
special software or assistive technology devices.
Here is the picture with some formatted text added to the page.
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Next, login to Destiny. If you have rights to edit the homepage, you will see an Edit Page icon.
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Add a title and then place your cursor in the Body and Ctrl-V to paste the code from the CMS that you
copied earlier. You will need to add the text in yellow to your code, directing Destiny to look for the
image on the carrollk12.org domain.
Once you Save and Close, you should view the image as well as any formatted text on your Destiny
homepage.
If you have a red X where the image should be, be sure your path name is correct.
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