Arugh

[charliesmum]

I have rehearsal soon, and I wanted to finish the Meme thing I started in the last post, but I don't know how to post pictures in a reply. It's probably dead easy, I just can't figure it out.

Help.

Comments

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Step 1. Acquire the address of the image. In Firefox, you can do this by right-clicking on an image and then selecting "copy image location." I think IE has a similar capacity, but I don't know how to do it in that program.

Step 2. type this:
[img src="the url of the picture in question"]

replacing the [ and ] with < and >, and inserting the URL from the clipboard that you copied in Step 1 where I have that italicized phrase.

Note: this use of an image from somebody else's server is referred to as "hot-linking." It's slightly rude if you are using the image over and over; the theory being you should make a copy on your own server and use your own resources/server cycles instead of theirs, assuming copyright isn't the issue. But for this purpose, when the link will only be used a few times and for a short duration, I don't see a problem.

I hope that helps.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

by the way, img is the tag for "image", and src is a parameter of it that means "this is the source of the image to display," if that helps you remember the html tag and parameter.

[cerisaye.livejournal.com]

If you use the lj scrapbook feature it's easy, just upload the images you need then you can get the html to post them.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

You could also just provide the keywords for the userpics.