Pictures contained in posts are actually not resident in this website. They are actually stored on another computer (server) somewhere on the internet. When you want to add a picture to your post, you must:
1. have your picture hosted on a server somewhere (not this one). I personally have a business website, which is hosted on a server, and use this to store my pictures. Many internet service providers allow people to create a small personal website and this could be used to mount your pictures. Chat with them about your options and how you'd do it. This will need to be your personal learning.
2. add directions (address) within your post on how to get to that server and then to where on that server that picture is stored. On this site, you write the directions ussing 'BBCode'. The basic BBCode formula is as follows:
'[img]http:www.-enter%20url%20(server%20name)%20here-/-directions%20to%20picture[/img]
For example, in my case, my server's url is:
'projectplato.com' .
On this server, I have a folder named:
'cars'
and in this folder I have another one named:
'Images'.
and in this folder I have a picture in the 'jpg' format labeled:
'manifoldonengtn'.
The BBcode would then look like this:
NOTE: I have deliberately left a space after the 'p' and before the colon so that the text will stay visible. Now I take out the space and . . .
. . . the formula goes and gets the picture and displays it on your screen.
If only a small box is displayed, it means that the formula can't find a picture at the end of the path you specified.
The problem here is I have no picture called 'manifoldoffengtn.jpg'. My posted BBCode formula went looking and didn't find one.
Happy Learning.
