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Could anyone let me know how you insert a photograph that's sitting on my hard drive into a message. Thanks
Computer illiterate from Nailsea 

Images are inserted using the {img}http://{/img} tag. Between the two tags you need to put the location of the image as a url like this:

{img}http://www.notarealwebsite.com/phoneyfolder/isthisanimage.gif{/img}

NOTE that you need to replace the curly bracket shown in the above example "{" and "}" with its equivalent square bracket "[" and "]"

The image must be hosted on the interweb somewhere - not on your own hard drive. There are literally hundreds of photo hosting sites. Please don't use Photobucket though, as it has strict restrictions on the amount of bandwidth their hosting can use, which can mess up our forums.

Imageshack is quite good - I'd personally recommend that as a start

http://www.imageshack.us/

Thanks Phil. At least I wasn't missing the obvious. I haven't got round to posting my photos anywhere so I'll have to spare you all my holiday snaps of the Roscoff - Morlaix branch. Lovely shiny modern train, but only 3 trains a day, all in the middle of the day - buses at peak hours! Maybe the Devon and Cornwall branches don't get it so bad after all. 

You can attach the photos click the additional options below to attach.

Of course they don't appear in the text but as a list at the bottom of the post.

At least the Morlaix viaduct still has trains going across unlike the one at Dinan which is now a road.

I've got as far as getting some images into imageshack but they don't seem to display when I use teh thumbnails to post them in this board.

What am I doing wrong?

Help!