Well, I've tried and tried. This is all I get. I'm hopeless. I'll keep trying to upload pic.
Put all that between <>
no, you’re not hopeless! just keep practicing
start simple, without adding height and width info. try this:
>img src=paste image address here< invert the arrows
Thanks for trying, I am sure it is very nice.
I used to do the same thing. I only recently found out you have to upload it to something like photobucket.com or postimage.org then from there you can get the properties and size and then upload it to freerepublic. I liked the simplicity of the postimage.org
One of the reasons your flowers picture wasn't posting is that it is blocked from hot linking at the source.
The picture is in the photobucket site.
Some photos on photobucket can be linked but some people chose to block their photos to prevent linking.
This is the link you were trying to post:
http://s1339.photobucket.com/user/cjmailcall/media/20170322_1407092_zpso3qfcxkl.jpg.html?w=480&h=480&fit=clip
Go there and move your cursor over the boxes on the right and you will see that a tab pops up showing "block" for each one.
Look at the black bar on the right in this screenshot as an example: