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oops! The system has interpretted my instruction to you and they have disappeatred. I'll try again here:Jim give me these instructions for referring to an image, which works. The language used is html (hypertext manipulation language)and is the underlying script for defining websites. The thing to understand is, that the image needs to be on a website somewhere and you just point to it. The place in your message where you want the image, you put the instruction, which has control characters around it. I will need to put these in "" here, to stop the system thinking they are an instruction here! So you just remove the quotes when you use them. The instruction is:""1. The control characters which tell the system it is html and not just your message are "" to end it.2. img is short for image; 3. there is a space between img and src; 4. src is short for source; 5. there are no other spaces;6. the 'image webpage address', you replace with the actual one of your image. To get this address just get the image up on its webpage and click right button on the mouse and a window comes up, select 'properties' and its address is there, just copy it e.g.http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44145000/jpg/_44145870_bus_afp203in.jpg and then paste this in your instruction, remembering to close the instruction with ">"So, as an example, I will use here "" by taking off the "" and the image is from the BBC website: Now, remember the image you refer to must reside on a website, so in the example I used I referred to one already on the BBC website. If you want to refer to yours, then you can upload your images to a photo website, such as www.flickr.com . It is free for the first 100mbytes of images (say 200 photos).

Duncan Walker ● 6454d

Jim give me these instructions for referring to an image, which works. The language used is html (hypertext manipulation language)and is the underlying script for defining websites. The thing to understand is, that the image needs to be on a website somewhere and you just point to it. The place in your message where you want the image, you put the instruction, which has control characters around it. I will need to put these in ' ' here, to stop the system thinking they are an instruction here! So you just remove the quotes when you use them. The instruction is:''1. The control characters which tell the system it is html and not just your message are '' to end it.2. img is short for image; 3. there is a space between img and src; 4. src is short for source; 5. there are no other spaces;6. the 'image webpage address', you replace with the actual one of your image. To get this address just get the image up on its webpage and click right button on the mouse and a window comes up, select 'properties' and its address is there, just copy it e.g. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44145000/jpg/_44145870_bus_afp203in.jpg and then paste this in your instruction, remembering to close the instruction with '>'So, as an example, I will use here '' by taking off the '' and the image is from the BBC website:Now, remember the image you refer to must reside on a website, so in the example I used I referred to one already on the BBC website. If you want to refer to yours, then you can upload your images to a photo website, such as www.flickr.com . It is free for the first 100mbytes of images (say 200 photos).

Duncan Walker ● 6454d