I wish I can post pictures here in this forum for comment but have searched sereral threads here but still could not figure out the magic. Could knowledgeable friends here tell me (or us, I think quite a lot of members here want the step by step menu for posting photos in this forum)how to do it step by step assuming me a idiot with very limited computer knowledge, just some photos scanned in jpeg format. Many Many Thanks.

-- tom tong (tom.tong@ckh.com.hk), January 21, 2002

Answers

Tony Rowlett has three tutorial posts about how to put links and images in your posts.

Go to the bottom of the forum main page to the Older Threads section. Click on Administration. The three posts that have titles beginning with "LESSON: " are the ones you need to read.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), January 21, 2002.

First you have to have the photo posted to a web site. Then your post to this site makes reference to your already posted photo. You may want to look at Photo.net, which is more appropriate for photo critique.

-- Phil Stiles (Stiles@metrocast.net), January 21, 2002.

In addition to Tony's excellent "Lessons" posts in the archives here, for general instructions, including screen captures, I also have a page on my site describing the process. Click here to view the page.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 21, 2002.

A piece of cake!!!

-- Frank Horn (owlhoot45@hotmail.com), January 21, 2002.

Thanks guys, I am now studying Tony's lessons. From a quick glance, it is not like a piece of cake, Frank. Anyway, I will try hard to learn and hope to post some photos in the near future. Regards,

-- tom tong (tom.tong@ckh.com.hk), January 21, 2002.

Tom: Copy and Paste the various sets of HTML commands in Tony's examples so that you have them stored somewhere and and can copy and paste them BACK into your posts here. (I use the 'Scrapbook" in my Macintosh and can just 'drag and drop' chunks of text into my posts, and I presume the Windows machines have something equivalent.) It saves me a lot of typing so long as I am careful to get the text in the right place between the "_" marks or the little arrow commands.

Use copy and paste for the URLs (web addresses) for your pictures as well.

e.g. I just dragged ALL of the following into this message from saved text. I've substituted () parantheses for the left/right arrows so the commands will be visible, and put my comments in [] square brackets to distinguish them from the REAL html code.

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(center)

(img src="[insert your picture link text here]" width=332 [or whatever width applies to your picture] height=482 [or whatever] )

(/center)

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Have confidence - you don't have to be a computer-brain so long as you can COPY(steal) the work of real computer brains like Tony.

For your first attempts, you can DOUBLECHECK your links two ways:

there is a 'Test message' available on this site under Administration to which you can post 'experimental' responses, to see if they come out the way you'd planned.

You can also test on the fly, by copying your proposed question/ response, pasting it into a word processing program, and saving that to YOUR computer in plain text format.

Then open an additional Netscape/Explorer window and "open' that text file using the browser - it will read the html commands, and either show you the pictures as you intended - or expose any errors that crept in ('cracked' picture links and the like.)

Sometimes I write my whole response off-line in a word-processor, test it, and only THEN get on the Internet and copy/paste the whole deal into this response window.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), January 22, 2002.

This link will take you directly to the test site where you can preview your posts....to see if everything works before posting it here. Then simply copy and paste the working text into the normal box below.

-- Giles Poilu (giles@monpoilu.icom43.net), January 22, 2002.