How to post images and how to post links, these methods work.
New people seem to have trouble posting links and images, so I am posting this so I can refer people to this text instead of writing the same explanation multiple times.
To
post an image, you must first have your image uploaded to some image hosting web site,
like picasawebgoogle.com with Google, or
photobucket.com. If FSM hosted all the photos we love to post and look at it would need to rent the moon for storage.
"Tags" are used to tell the forum software that the text that is between them is an image to be displayed. To post a an image you use the tag img enclosed in [ and ] brackets to show the start of the image text (also known as a URL), and /img enclosed in [ and ] brackets to indicate the end of the image text. I would just post an exact sample with the delimiting tags as they should be, but if I did the forum software would have to kill it. It will not display properly. So to illustrate I will put this _ mark inside the [. When you write the text, delete that mark so your image will display properly in your post.
Here is how to write the text to insert an image in your post, with the _ marks you should delete to make the image active instead of "dead" text that I have written as an example:
[_img]http://www.yolo.net/~jeaton/earlyjets/B45/007b45.jpg[_/img]
and here is exactly the same text, with the _'s removed:
That is the pilot's panel in a North American B-45, for which there is only a rather sad 1/72 Mach 2 kit available.
Once you have your photos on an image hosting site, look at your image on that page. Move your mouse over the image, and right click your mouse. A window will open, and a properties option will be displayed. Click "properties", and the direct link to your photo will be shown in another window. It will start with http;// and end with .jpg. Drag your mouse over the whole text from the first h to the last g and make sure it is all highlighted. Then copy it by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing C.
Now, go to your FSM typing window for your post, and paste in your copied text by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing V. Put the image delimiting tags in front of and behind your URL with no spaces.
[_img]http://your URL.jpg[_/img]
Once again I have put the _'s in so my text will be displayed and you must delete them from your post.
There are other ways of inserting images, but this works and will get you started. The others are more difficult to explain and I find many members have trouble with them.
To post a link is simpler, and also simpler than in the old forum site because on the old site the window for entering links did not open properly. If you open the posting window with new post, reply, or quick reply, at the top is a dimmed out chain link, and next to it is a broken chain link. They are to the left of and in line with the 'smiley" which is bright and active.
Type or paste in the link you want to have "live" in your post. Here is an example, an index page on my web site for B-45 pictures:
http://www.yolo.net/~jeaton/earlyjets/B45/b45.htm
You will note this link is dead. If I highlight the text by passing the mouse over it with the left button down, the chain link a few spots left of the smiley button will become active. If I then click on the unbroken chain link a window will open and I then type or paste in my link into the text box in that window. Now my link will become active. Here it is again, typed in again but made active by this process:
http://www.yolo.net/~jeaton/earlyjets/B45/b45.htm