Steve,
It's really easy. Here is an overview of one procedure.
1. Take pictures with digital camera. You might use the "Good" setting on the camera so the pictures will be smaller. The final result will help those with dial-up connections which take a long time to download the pictures for viewing.
2. Remore memory card from camera, and insert into USB card reader which is attached to USB port on computer.
3. Double-click My Computer on the Desktop. You will see the USB Card Reader appearing as one of the Drives.
4. Copy the pictures from the memory card to a folder of your choice on the C: drive. You could even make a new folder, and call it: Uploads
5. Review the pictures, and remember the filenames which you want to display. Consider renaming them to more meaningful names which are easily remembered.
6. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will most likely have a procedure for you to upload the pictures from your computer to your personal storage on their computer, commonly called a server.
7. Go ahead and upload your pictures. Follow the ISP's instructions. They will help you identify the location of the picture on your computer, by allowing you to browse until it is found. They will then take over, and do the actual work.
8. Remember how you always see http:// etc, etc, at the top of your browser? That is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
9. Your pictures will have a specific URL.
10. Here is a sample of my URL for a picture. Please click on the hyperlink if you wish. This is one way of allowing people to see your pictures. Meanwhile, here on this forum, we usually have the picture displayed right in the post.
http://home.comcast.net/~michigunnerII/onlinestorage/DCP_3388.JPG11. Note that there is an unusual character present ~
Of course, your userid will appear in the URL. There's nothing magic about the word onlinestorage. It could have been called frog just as easily.
12. Now you make your post on the forum using the following technique. I inserted an * so the following would not appear here as an actual picture. You must remove the * so it will.
[img*]http://home.comcast.net/~michigunnerII/onlinestorage/DCP_3388.JPG[/img*]
You can see the URL surrounded by a beginning "tag" and an ending "tag", which are special character sequences which help this software program discover the URL.
If you have more questions, please ask. The folks here will be happy to help.
Bill
