[raynearhood]

Sorry about this, I've never asked before because I honestly don't like to waste the space on the page. Nor do I know where to post it.

[Bender2]

I'm no expert but I do have a Free Republic Command Post!

[righttackle44]

"Help, please, I'm a computer idiot."

I REALLY, REALLY resemble that remark.
I've asked Freepers for help a couple of
times. They've responded. They're the
best.

[isom35]

first thing I do every morning is re-format my hard-drive. :)

[Radix]

Hey Sarge,

Are you 10Th Mountain? I think that was the unit. They teach Air Assault School up there as I recall. The former 2LT went there a while back.

There is a little secret that I never see shared out here concerning posting images. Outlook Express which most PCs have will give you everything that you need to post images on FR.com.

If you have personal images to post, then first you must upload them to a server. If you want to post images from the Internet then OE is all that you need.

I'll send you a file later on how to do it. I wrote it a while back. it is elementary. Let me know if you are interested.

[knews_hound]

Personally, I use Nvu, a free html editor.

Rather than use commands, you simply type, supply the links with cut/paste and it converts for you.

Can't beat the price.

Cheers,

knewshound

[schwing_wifey]

For myself later too....

[Paulus Invictus]

Buy a Mac and it will explain our every move.

[Graymatter]

What a small world! I'm a computer idiot too!
I figured out how to post pics, though. The hard part was getting that SFP, FTP, WTF or whatever it is, into the computer and getting pics onto a site that stores them. However, once you do that, the rest is simple. I use Windows, and went to the tab called View, and in there, clicked Page Source. This will show you any FR page in html. In there I found the html code for a posted pic, and copied it and then used its formula to post my own pics. Just change the url and the pic size.
Pic size is important. There may be some easier way to find out your picture's size but what I do is open it in my graphics program. Then put these values in, so the size isn't too big or too small. I try not to post anything bigger than 300 x 300, and even that's kinda big.
Since it's hard to remember the formula, keep a handy file in your computer with the formula (IMG HEIGHT="362" WIDTH="298" SRC="h...p://www...etc.) I can't copy it here exactly, don't know how. :)
It's fun and not too difficult once you get the hang of it, though it'll never replace chocolate.

[VOA]

bump...for later use as I'm at least midly "challenged" on higher level posting.

[trussell]

How to post a picture

The picture has to be hosted online. photobucket has free webspace you can use to host your pictures.

< (Opens the link)
img (Stands for image)
(space between img and src)
src (Stands for Source)
= (tells the computer that you are going to put in a destination)
"URL" (The url of the picture goes between quotation marks)
> (Closes the link)
put it all together and you get (with an unneeded space between the first karat and the img) < img src="http://webpages.charter.net/trussell/pictures/Hello%20stick%20person.gi"> This is the URL for the picture of the waving stick figure.

Take the space out after the first karat (<) and you would get …

 

How to post a picture

The picture has to be hosted online. photobucket has free webspace you can use to host your pictures.

< (Opens the link)
img (Stands for image)
(space between img and src)
src (Stands for Source)
= (tells the computer that you are going to put in a destination)
"URL" (The url of the picture goes between quotation marks)
> (Closes the link)
put it all together and you get (with an unneeded space between the first karat and the img) < img src="http://webpages.charter.net/trussell/pictures/Hello%20stick%20person.gi"> This is the URL for the picture of the waving stick figure.

Take the space out after the first karat (<) and you would get …

 

[Peace Is Coming]

bttt

[VxH]

http://imageshack.us

 

 

Once you upload your image then they present a nice page with a variety of HTML examples that you can use to present your image.

[gondramB]

I put together a particularly simple guide.

A guide to using HTML on Free Republic in 5 lines

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1823580/posts

[HotHunt]

I post images all the time. It’s easy. I use Photbucket.com account..it’s free. It takes me one minute or so to upload my image from my computer and copy the HTML code and paste it into FR site. Bingo, your image appears. It is not hard at all.

[cilbupeR_eerF]