To illustrate your deathless prose, include some photos - they help to liven things up.

First get yourself an online storage account with one of the many image hosting sites. I like SmugMug but for the purposes of this guide I shall be using Photobucket where I have set up a free account that has just four pictures in it. It varies from host to host but with Photobucket, it seems that you have to decide on the size of the image you will want to post, before uploading it to Photobucket. A good size is 640x480 which is selected in a drop box under the uploading button.


With the URL in your clipboard, make your post and paste the URL where you want it . You will notice that the URL actually has tags [img] and [/img] and before and after it. These are what tell the browser that it is an image. In fact, if you right click on any image in any browser and then click on "properties", you will be able to copy the URL of that picture but without the image tags. In this case, do as shown below.