There are two ways to use pictures in your messages. You can use the pictures that you have elsewhere on the Internet, or you can upload the pictures to this website and use them. Here is how to do both ways. Read the whole set of instructions before beginning.

1. To Use a picture you have on the Internet elsewhere:

1. First start a message on open the WYSIWYG editor (instructions for opening ditor yet to be written)
2. Click on the image icon . This will bring up an "insert/edit image" message box. (see paragraphs 10 & 11 at the bottom of this page.)
   
3. Put the locaton of your image in the "Image URL" text box.
   
4. Click on the "Alignment" (which will say "not set") and chose "left" (or one of the other choices.)
5. If you want to put a white space (recommended)
   between your text and the pictures, put "10" in both the "Verticle
   space" and the "Horizontal space" text boxes.
6. Now you are ready to insert the image into your
   message. Click on "Insert" (at the bottom of the "Insert/edit image"
   box) and the "Insert/edit image" box will close, leaving you back at your wysiwy message window.
7. If the picture isn't where you want you can drag in around in the wysiwyg window.
8. When you are finished with your message, to get your pictue to show, you need to choose the Input Format. Under the left side of the wysiwyg editing window, click on "Input format". Choose "full HTML". (If you don't don't do this, your picture won't show after you have submitted it.)
9. To Save your message, scroll down to the bottom of your web browser window and click the "submit" button. (you can also do a preview before saving, but make sure you still "submit" it before leaving.

2. To Upload a picture to this website and use it in a message:

As a privileged use of this website, you can use pictures in your messages, and other pages. This is how it works. First you upload your picture to a folder (which is your personal image folder). [Once the picture is in the folder, you can reuse it as many times as you like.] Then you insert the picture into your messages and other web pages.

First, before uploading any pictures to this website, resize your picture(s) to no larger than 640 X 480. Then, you can start your message.

Before you can use a picture in your message, you need to click on the "enable rich-text" link at the bottom left of the message window. This will open up a set of wysiwyg word-processor type of icons at the top of the message box. This also allows you to resize your message window (if you so desire. The resizing handle is at the bottom right of themessage window.)

After starting your message:

1. Choose where you want the image to be in your message by clicking in that location. (For instance, if you want your message on the left side of the screen, below a paragraph, click on the left side at the location you want to picture.) After you have clicked, you should see a blinking cursor line at the location you clicked. If you don't see it, try again in another location nearer the text.
2. To upload your picture(s), start by clicking on the image icon at the top of the WYSIWYG editor window.
   
3. This will bring up an "insert/edit image" message box.
   
4. To upload an image into a storage folder, click on the tiny rectangle that is to the right of the "Image URL" text area (as shown in above picture.)
   
5. This will bring up an 'Image/File Browser".
   
6. At the bottom of the Image/File Browser Window, (see above picture) click on the Browse Button. This will bring up a "File Upload" box that will enable you to browse you computer for the image/picture you want to upload.
7. When you find the picture, click on "Open" (at the bottom of the "File Upload" window.) This will take you back to the "File Browser", which will then have the file name loaded in the box just to the left of the Browse button. (See bottom of picture in Number 5 above.) Now, at the bottom of the "Image/File Browser" window, make sure that there is a check mark in the "Scale if necessary" checkbox (It should already be checked)
8. Click on the "Upload File" button. (There is no need to resize you files before uploading, since this will automatically resize your image file as you upload it.
9. Your image will now be in an online folder, which you will now be viewing within the "Image/File Browser". At the top of the browser is the listing of image files you have in your folder. (If this is the first time you have uploaded a picture, there will only be the one file listed.) Click on the file you want to use (In this case, the file should already be chosen; it is highlighted.) The picture that you have chosen should show in the bottom pane.
10. To use the image, click (or double click) on the image in the bottom window. This will take you back to the "Insert/edit image" message box. Here you can choose if you want your picture to be on the left, right, middle, etc. in your message. Click on the "Alignment" (which will say "not set") and chose "left" (or one of the other choices.)
11. In the picture below it shows where you can resize your picture for your message. The dimensions in the picture read 430 X 500. Unless you have a lot of detail that you need a larger picture to show, for most pictures you will want to keep the picture sizes to 400 or less. (You only need to put one of the dimension measurements in.) When you post your message, the other dimension will be automatically calculated and filled in based upon the first dimension that you entered.
12. If you want to put a while space (recommended) between your text and the pictures, put "10" in both the "Verticle space" and the "Horizontal space" text boxes.
13. Now you are ready to insert the image into your message. Click on "Insert" (at the bottom of the "Insert/edit image" box) and the "Insert/edit image" box will close, leaving you back at your wysiwy message window.
14. If the picture isn't where you want you can drag in around in the wysiwyg window. (Sometimes when a picture is moved, it won't show up at the new location. If this happens, simply delete the picture and insert the picture again. Since you already uploaded the picture to the website, you only have to follow steps 2-3 and 9-12
15. When you are finished with your message, to get your
    pictue to show, you need to choose the Input Format. Under the left
    side of the wysiwyg editing window, click on "Input format". Choose
    "full HTML". (If you don't don't do this, your picture won't show after
    you have submitted it.)
16. Note - Important - Read this!: Sometimes during saving a message, the Internet or the website may have disturbance, etc. In this case, your whole message may be forever lost. To prevent this, before submitting the message, first save it to your computer, like this: Click anywhere in your message or article. Type Ctrl+A (hold the Ctrl key while typing the letter "a"), which will highlight your whole message. Then type Ctrl+C, which will copy your whole message into your computer's memory. Then, if your message gets lost, just start a new message, click in the message area, and then type Ctrl+v (which will paste your previously written message into this new message.
17. To Save your message, scroll down to the bottom of your web browser window and click the "submit" button. (you can also do a preview before saving, but make sure you still "submit" it before leaving, otherwise you will loose everything that you have written.)

If you want to use the same picture again in a different message, the picture will already be uploaded and you won't have to upload it again. Just do steps 1-2 & 9-11 (skip steps 3-8).