Need Help on How to Place Images to the Left of Text?

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   quotationsposted 10 years ago

   Hi,
   
   I understand how to add images, and I have been able to place them on the right hand side relative to a column of text, but no matter what I try, I cannot get the image to show up on the left hand side with the text to the right.
   
   Is that a limitation of the hubpages editing feature, or am I doing something wrong?
   
   If anyone can explain step by step, I would really appreciate it.
   
   Thanks

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   relacheposted 10 years ago

   You can't have images to the left of text, plain and simple.  The photo capsules don't allow it.

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   Patty Inglish, MSposted 10 years ago

   The only way I know would is to paste a photo into a word document, in the left-hand cell of a 2-cell table, type text into the right-hand cell, save page as a PDF and then convert with Photoshop to a .jpeg or .gif. Then upload the .jpeg or .gif  Jpeg is better and clearer image.
   
   I don't use this often, because the text is usually too hazy, especially in .gif. I write tables mostly, font size at least 14 points and bold, save as pdf, convert to jpeg and upload.

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   Peter M. Lopezposted 10 years ago

   Similar to what Patty said, you can create what you want in another application Photo(left)|Text(right) and then use a simple program like Gadwin Printscreen to capture the image as a jpg file and upload it as a file. 
   
   It's not complicated, but you may have to try to match text fonts.

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   ohohdonposted 10 years ago

   My preference would be to leave the picture to the right of the text.  If you change your text to a picture, you lose the ability to optimize your text for the search engine spiders.  They can't read the text off the pictures.  All you have left are the titles and captions.

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   darksideposted 10 years ago

   Being able to have an image to the left would be nice, but I wouldn't sacrifice valuable content by making it into an image.
   
   Search engines won't know it exists.
   
   I'd advise against doing so.

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   babybrownfoxposted 10 years ago

   Yep.. I would agree Darkside. It would be better to have the content instead of an image.

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   Kenny Wordsmithposted 10 years ago

   I agree with the others. Patty, don't do that unless absolutely needed.

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