Posting an article

[gands]

I am having a terrible time trying to submit an article. Can anyone talk me through it? Thanks

[Marty]

What specifically are you having problems with?

this thread may help: Article Posting - Mini HOWTO

in any case, post whatever you have and I'll do my best to fix it up for you.

Marty

[gands]

Hi Marty,

when I go to the publish article page and fill in my title, choose my category, then go to the body window I could not get it to insert or load a photo. Text is no problem what so ever, but I cannot figure out how to get a photo in it. Copying and pasting does not do it, nor does dragging and dropping. I just am not expirienced enough to know what I'm doing.

It was suggested that I put my article in my gallery as a jpeg. and then copy the BB link to the body window. But when I do that, the text of the BB link shows up but not as a photo?

I'm sorry, but I'm obviously VERY confused with all of this

[Marty]

No, don't do it as a JPG. I'm not a big fan of text converted to pictures. The size becomes huge and it's not a good netiquette. Upload your photos to the gallery, then just paste links inside the articles enclosed in [img] tags.

if you run into trouble then just paste the links wherever you want the pictures and I'll fix it for you.

We will have to do something with terrestrial_man's JPG article

[gands]

here is a jpeg of my first page or "teaser" (picture1a) and the second page (picture2a) I know this is not what you are looking for, but I don't know how to utilize tags and such, or how to make them. When you say paste links inside the [img] tags, I have no clue what that means, or how to do it.

[Marty]

Do you have it in a word document format or in some type of a text format ? From an image, I can't exteract the text. I'd have to re-type it.

[gands]

Yes I do. I will get it to you, I originally put it together in Word. Thanks