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[bshmerlie]

This is great Kisa. This is definately a "Most Informative Thread". Please keep it up for all of us computer illiterate people out there. I went through 4 years of college without a computer. I'm still learning how to use my cell phone

[Kisa]

This is great Kisa. This is definately a "Most Informative Thread". Please keep it up for all of us computer illiterate people out there. I went through 4 years of college without a computer. I'm still learning how to use my cell phone

That is exactly the response I was hoping for from everyone, thanks! I just hope people can learn from this thread. I know there were some things I had trouble with when I first joined and had to learn along the way, especially since I'm not a computer expert and don't use FB or MS so I don't have all the technical knowledge others may have. I figured it out on my own, but others may not be so lucky. Here's hoping the info I post helps at least one person on FF. XD

Bear with me guys it's gonna take a long time to fully complete this thread with pictures and every little tid bit of information I can find, but I'll be taking requests once I feel I'm done covering the basics, so once I say so feel free to post what you guys think I've missed.

This is still definitely a work in progress though, let me get a little farther before you start shouting things out. XD

Love the 80s cell phone picture btw Cheri, one reason I'm glad I wasn't around then...did they sell extra big purses so you could fit your cell inside? XD Or maybe pants with EXTRA huge pockets?

[Kisa]

Alright everyone, time to give you a run down on how to break that huge wall of text in your posts by adding pictures, links, or videos to a post! (I will also be covering a bit about member albums in this post, so for those of you who don't know how to use the albums on your profile page, stay tuned, it's coming up!)

Alright, so you've started your new thread or you've posted your comments in an existing topic but...there's something missing. Even with all the editing tools and emoticons you feel like your post is lacking and needs a little something extra. In fact, just the other day you saw a great photograph online of the frog you're discussing in your subscribed topic, and you think others would benefit from getting a look at it. Now, how do you go about posting this brilliant picture into your post so people can see it as a thumbnail without having to follow a link to another website?

At first this was hard for me to figure out, but once I looked around and used some old knowledge I had stored up in my brain, it was easy to figure out.

First I'll start with albums, as this is where this process begins.

You will see on your profile page that there is a section to the right underneath your list of friends (which hopefully is or will soon be very extensive ^ ^) entitled "Albums". Now if you click the link that allows you to view all albums (or it could be there if you don't have any albums, I do have them so I don't quite remember what it looks like, hopefully you can find it), at the bottom you will see a link (in my favorite color: green, as always) that will allow you to "Add Albums".

Now, after you click the "Add Albums" link you will be taken to a page that looks a bit similar to the "Post a Message/Thread" page. There are blank fields for "Title" and "Description". Now, you're basically allowed to call your albums and describe them however you wish, but it's easier if you at least stick with something that's pertinent to the items you're going to want to store in this album. Say you have White's Tree Frogs that you're going to be taking pictures of, you can title the album "My White's Tree Frogs" and under the description you can put the names of your frogs, for example "Bruce Campbell and Bruce Wayne" (my White's).

Once you've done this you can choose the "Album Type". You can either choose "Public", which allows everyone to see your album and pictures, "Private", which shows your pictures to your friends and moderators, or "Profile", which makes your pictures only available for you to view. Once you're done here, you can click the "Submit" button and begin adding pictures!

To add pictures, you will simply click your album and then click the link that reads "Upload Pictures" and you will be taken to a screen you may not have seen before. This screen has the familiar grey box and inside there is a listing of five buttons that read "Choose File". Click one of these buttons and a screen will pop up from your computer with a list of pictures or other files. Navigate to the picture you want to upload and double click it. It should appear next to the "Choose File" button.

Now I'm not sure if all members have experienced this problem, but it has been increasingly problematic to me when I try to upload new pictures. The window in which your list of files (from your computer) appears is transparent, so while you may be intending to choose some things from this window, FF thinks you're trying to click the links behind this window. This may be a little confusing to you already...but if you experience this problem you'll see what I mean. A quick fix to this is to move the "Upload" window into a different spot where there are no links on the FF page below, this should solve the problem and allow you to choose the picture you want to upload.

Now once you chosen your picture, you will be taken to a screen where you can see your picture and you have a field entitled "Description" where you can explain this picture. When you are all done click the button at the bottom and voila! Your pictures are now available for use!

I will continue the explanation of adding pictures to posts below, stay tuned...