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Neither did I and what you posted was what I had questioned but hey lets just say he deserves to have the bigest badest photo posted on Free Republic.

Thanks.

No argument from me...:)

Protect our boys Father

It is pretty simple to post -- if you know or even if you don't. The hard part if figuring out the original size versus the size you want and the ratios.

It is an < IMG > with the following format:

< IMG SRC="http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200521884517/$file/D577WEB.jpg" WIDTH=900 HEIGHT=600 >
For XML, you would need to close it with < /IMG >. [You don't need this on Freerepublic -- we post in HTML].

Now for the tricky part -- you download the file and have a utilty that gives you the size of the original file. This is just for figuring out the size of the image versus the size you want to display and the ratio.

For me, it said it was 1800x1200 so I tried different values and ended up with 900x600 [widthxheight].

If you divide by the Greatest Common Factor [600], you get a 3x2 ratio. Then try different sizes -- multiply the ratio by 200 -- gives 600x400 -- or 250 -- gives 750x500 -- or what I ended up with -- multiply by 300 -- times the 3x2 ratio -- yielding 900x600.

You might get lost in the Math -- but maybe can worth with you or you use the calculator on the computer.