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I've been on the internet since before there was really a "World Wide Web"...I'm still a computer IDIOT but I've gotten fairly good at figuring-out how to make links and/or pictures on other message board...

I've been posting on Free Republic for over a year now...And lurked for well over a year before that...And still...THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST CONFUSING MESSAGE BOARD I HAVE EVER BEEN ON!!!

Yes, this is a topic for another post but I'll go on...

I've given a link to this site to numerous "Net Friends"...Each and EVERY ONE comes back and says that they can't understand how to use this place and just give up and go away...I almost did the same but being the Political Junkie and Broken Glass Republican that I am, I didn't give up...And now I know how to post and can get around pretty good (Although I still have NO IDEA of how to use the "Subscribe" feature....)

Anyway...I am POSITIVE we are missing a LOT of good contributors because this place is so WEIRD!! And maybe that's by design...Maybe it keeps out the Riff-Raff...I don't know...

/Rant

So anyway......I still can't post links or pictures here...It's just SO WEIRD!!! (I've NEVER been to a board where you have to put a "P" surrounded by <> just to make a new paragraph!! My request is this...

Please tell me how to post pics and links...And please do it this way....

Put all those wierd commands (http///.href<>blahblah) on the front and end of the example and then type "PUT THE LINK OF THE URL OR THE PICTURE RIGHT HERE" (But exclude the "'s otherwise I'll think I have to add them too). Maybe by doing that, I'll learn how to do it.

And please don't confuse me by adding that thing where you get to name the link anything you want...That just just makes things worse.

Thanks a lot!

OK... type this line as shown, into a notepad or wordpad file:

You stick the web addy of the picture you want between the quotes-

To give an example, this addy-
http://home.earthlink.net/~zeroxing/911WAR.jpg
pasted between the quotes becomes:

So anyway......I still can't post links or pictures here...It's just SO WEIRD!!! (I've NEVER been to a board where you have to put a "P" surrounded by <> just to make a new paragraph!! My request is this...
Please tell me how to post pics and links...And please do it this way....
Put all those wierd commands (http///.href<>blahblah) on the front and end of the example and then type "PUT THE LINK OF THE URL OR THE PICTURE RIGHT HERE" (But exclude the "'s otherwise I'll think I have to add them too). Maybe by doing that, I'll learn how to do it.

And please don't confuse me by adding that thing where you get to name the link anything you want...That just just makes things worse.

To me all the other web based boards are weird. This one allows you to post HTML code which gives the users MUCH more flexibility than all the other "dumbed down" boards. So you have to learn a little basic HTML but it's not that tough. Spend an eveining or 2 at Hotwired's Webmonkey , print out the "Cheat Sheet" and keep it by your computer and that's all you'll need to do.

Please, please, please don't encourage them to dumb this board down or we'll all miss soooo much cool, weird, wacky, wonderfull stuff and it will suck! Better for YOU to dumb yourself UP a little!

btw, It's nice to see other's singing the praise of Webmonkey. I've been doing that for years. It's a GREAT site(even though they are a bunch of lefties).