FrankC wrote:
Can someone tell me how to add pictures to my posts? Whatever I do does not work.
(Belated edit. After seeing ICEMAN's post, these instructions are for a computer using Windows.)There may be other ways to do it, but I will give you the procedure that DANTE taught me.
To start, just go out on the Internet and find a picture you want to use. (I will usually go to Google, type in what I want it to search for, and click on "images".)
Once you find a picture you like, right click on it, and a menu will pop up.
Go down to the bottom and left click on "Properties", and a new menu will pop up.
At this menu, about half way down, you will see "Address (URL)".
Left click and hold it down, as you drag your cursor across and down through the entire "Address (URL)". This should turn it blue.
It will stay blue after you are done.
Now, put your cursor over the blue "Address (URL)" and right click on it.
A new menu should pop up, giving you the option, "Copy". Left click on "Copy". Now you have it.
Go back to your post on the "ScaRatings". (It must still be in the process of being created or edited.)
Find the place where you want to insert the picture, with your cursor, and left click there.
The "Address (URL)" that you just copied should appear in your post. (You don't have your picture yet.)
You're almost done.
Now left click on the "Address (URL)" at it's beginning, hold your curson down, and drag it through the entire "Address (URL)", until it is entirely blue in your post.
Now look up at the top of the the box your post is in, and you will see a small task bar. The second to the last choice is "Img" in a little box. Left click on "Img".
Are you religious? Now say a prayer, cross your fingers, and simply hit enter. (Your picture won't show up until you have entered your post.)
If you've done it right, and been a good boy, your post and picture should appear.
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A few other things:
I would try to avoid tiny web sites, particularly personal blogs, to copy pictures.
I may be wrong, but I believe that I have encountered problems, when I have tried to use pictures with a very long "Address (URL)". I think they have screwed up my posts, making them impossible to delete or edit, after the picture doesn't appear. If the "Address (URL)" is over 4 or 5 lines long, I look for another picture to copy.
If you want to insert more than one picture into a post, you have to do each one separately.
Sometimes after you've put a picture in a post, and think you've got it done, you get a bad surprise. The next day, when you look at it, the picture is gone, and there is only a tiny little square, with a red "
X Image" in it, where the picture used to be. I have no idea what causes this, but when it happens, I just edit the post, delete the screwed up "Address (URL)", and go find another picture to put in its place.
There are some other tricks to spacing pictures in your post, and placing your comments under them, but that's a story for another day.
Good luck. If this doesn't work for you, send me a private message.
p.s. Hell, I wrote this off the top of my head to the best of my memory. I sure hope I didn't goof something up, or left something out.
COME ON FRANK, GET THOSE PICTURES UP HERE...!!! 
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