[driftdiver]

To insert an image you use this

<img src = “put your link here” (and then add a right carrot) or greater than sign. Can’t put it here or FR will read it as HTML.

There is also a HTML guide on here somewhere.

[goseminoles]

Been a freeper for 12 years.. hell if I know... me thinks you have to use a host site.. sorry I can’t tell you. Other freepers will chime in...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

HTML Sandbox

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938739/posts

Teach yourself !

[evets]

It's a secret. Put you ear close to the screen and I'll whisper...

[donna]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2894808/posts

[null and void]

Nully's Quick FR HTML Guide:

Basic formatting:

Line break <br>
Paragraph break <p>
<blockquote>

Indented paragraphs

</blockquote>
<u> underline </u>
<i> italics </i>
<b> bold </b>
<s> strikethrough </s>
<tt> typewriter text </tt>
<font color=red> Red font </font>
<blink> blink </blink> Use blink sparingly. People HATE blink

<font size=1>Smallest FR font</font> Displays as:
Smallest FR font

<font size=7>Largest FR font<font> Displays as:
Largest FR font

Or

Step font size up or down with <big>bigger</big>

and <small>smaller</small>

"Hidden" text: <font color=white> White font </font>
Drag cursor over blank area to highlight to read...

Posting a link:

General:
<a href=[web address]>[title]< /a>
Example:
This: <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179145/posts">Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal</a>
Posts as this:
Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal

Posting an image:

General:
<img src="[web server location]">

Clarity is needed - you can't just snag a favorite picture from a desktop folder...it has to be hosted someplace to be transferrable to our posts. ~ ErnBatavia

Example:
This: <img src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">

Posts this:

Tip: control the size with "height=nnn" like so:

This: <img height= 200 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

While This: <img height= 100 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

[Irenic]

But we aren't to link photos from others accounts (hotlink/steal bandwidth) If you use photobucket to upload your images to--hover over image and select html code and paste. That's the easy/lazy way. :)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Easier done than said, once you get the hang of it.

1: Sign up for a free photobucket acct.

2: Upload your pix.

3: Once you have done that and view your album, under every picture four different html codes will be available. One will be for bulletin boards (usually an “img” prefix and suffix will show). The others are for...whatever. Click on the one that starts with “a=href” which will copy the code into your clipboard automatically...you don’t have to do Ctrl-C or anything. It will show “copied” as an indication that it has worked.

Then just paste (ctrl-V) or, right-click-paste the copied code into your FR post. Every forum that lets you post pix does it in slightly different ways, but the varaiations are few. You just have the try it a few different ways to see which works.

Keep in mind that once you have ANY kind of html in your FR post, you will have to delineate ALL paragraph breaks and the like. FR assumes that if you know a little html, it will cheerfully expect you to know A LOT of html.

Incidentally, a very useful little piece of software is MWsnap (search for it) which will allow you to crop and save almost ANY square or rectangle of pix information you can see on your screen. You can then save that saved rectangle. You will of course have to name it something. You can then upload that pix to your new photobucket acct. Then get the a=href code, then paste it here on FR. Easy.

[I see my hands]

Affix a stamp then place in mail box.

[napscoordinator]

Don’t worry....I have been here almost 7 years and I have no idea.

[OldMissileer]

Try this web page:

Basic HTML Coding

It is a great page to teach the basics.

[philman_36]

Okay, I'm not a noob, just a rube: how the heck do I post a picture?
First, assume the proper position...

(no, no, not that one)

{;^)

[Just mythoughts]

Well from my very humble and limited opinion this is the resident pro regarding picture taking and posting!!!!

[wac3rd]

BFL

[Rightly Biased]

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• HTML for FReeper Newbies
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Original Thread)
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Thread Two)
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Thread Three)
  
  
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• Posting refresher course - Please read
  
  
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[grellis]

bump for later, time for a refresher course

[12chachacha]

[Mountain Mary]

Hey, you guys who are posting pix right now are showing off and trying to make the rest of us feel really dumb..which I do. :-)

So I’m gonna study this stuff. Sounds complicated but am gonna try. LATER!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Tattoo that I got today, of my daughter's name. It is not finished, left room for a rose or something. :)

(Haha time was running out but I found a thread today. Damn I'm good!)

[bravo whiskey]