FAQ: How to add images to your posts

To add images to your posts you need three things:

1. A digital version of your images, preferrably in JPEG (.JPG) format.
2. A web server to host your image file.
3. A little bit of HTML coding in your post.

To take the points in order: If you are using a digital camera, then the first point should be trivial and explained in your user guide. The photo.net site covers how to get a traditional film scanned and where the best places for this service are.

The web server gives you a place on the net to store your image. As a side effect each image file will have an address known as a URL or URI. It could be something like http://photo.net/photo/pcd1638/glen-canyon-dam-2.1.jpg for one of Philip's images. You'll have to find your own Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will allow you to store some files on a web server.

Please try to keep you images in a reasonable (i.e. not too big) size.

Then to the HTML. It's easy, really, if a bit scary. You need to know the URL of your image file and the size in pixels of the image. The image mentioned above is a 196×134 pixel JPEG image. To add ti to your submission you have to type the following in your submission:

<IMG SRC="http://photo.net/photo/pcd1638/glen-canyon-dam-2.1.jpg" WIDTH="196" HEIGHT="134"> <P>This is one of Philip's pictures....

If everything works out OK, then your posting should look like

This is one of Philip's pictures....

to the rest of the community. Use <P> to start a new paragraph.

Now for the scary part:There is no preview facility on this system, so you have to get all the HTML right first time! This is surprisingly hard.

Philip's guide to HTML is at http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/html.html.