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submit an article with images in it online?

Tried just now and the "insert image" button didn't seem to do anything.

Also, if I publish an article can I edit/add to it later?

I was thinking of starting an "Alternative Technology" article e.g. the kitchen cutter/scraper for cutting loaf soap and this one, which I've just remembered, for cutting MP soap curls from a block

(http://www.briallen.co.uk/misc/curls2.jpg)

using a cheese slicer thingy.

(couldn't think which board to post this on)

Oh Elaine, that's great.  I've called Kestrel (who can probably explain better than me, lol). Thing thing is, while you can submit the text, the images are a bit more tricky.  What you could do, is submit the article & either link to the images (we can then retrieve them to add) or email the images putting say a number code on the article (picture 1 & ID this in the emailed images so that they can be added).  The main reason (I think) is security of the other images because we have other member's in the same stock pile (that's putting it in Helen speak, lol) and to protect them, this is only accessible to admin (I think this is the reason - kestrel may put me straight) also, it's a bit of a pain in the posterior adding the images so that they appear in the right places.

So if that is ok and I have made some sense of all the rambling, the images and article will need to be separate to start with.  Thank you, I can't wait to see this...  Why does everything look good enough to eat?  It's not good for the hips you know! lol  :D

OK, I get the drift.

So if I were to send something initially then thought of another item I could email and you/Kestrel would add it to the existing article?

Hi Elaine,

That's absolutely fine Elaine, in fact that would be fantastic.  Of course, anything that a member is unhappy with or would like to change, this will be done ASAP  ;)  I hope this is ok.  ;D

Can you link the pictures, as in using photobucket links?

This should be fine Fee, we'll just go and retrieve them and place them in the article where you specify (or as near as the software will allow  ;))  Thanks again, to you both!  :)

Blimey you guys are keeping me on my toes!

Anyway, I found a problem with the site (not forum) template.

The upshot of that was that everyone got a basic editor.
So no opportunity to link to image urls.
Unless you knew html.

Now you all got a shiny new WYSIWIG editor with lots of sophisticated buttons.
You can format all your submitted content exactly how you want it to look.

It is quite complici...compleca...com..hard-looking at first.

But if you need any help, please let me know.

I should add, for anyone who hasn't selected their editor yet, it is in User Menu - Your Details - User Editor, choose the TinyMCE WYSIWYG option from the pulldown.

I did wonder whether to try html tags.


Don't know whether I can cope with one of those, they often turn out to be WYSIWYDG!!

(I'll go have a look)

Thinking a bit more.

Re inserting an image - is the image copied into a folder somewhere  via FTP or does it have to be in a folder on a website elsewhere - what if it's on my hard drive?

Hello Elaine,
The editor doesn't upload.
You have to type the url for the image after clicking on the image icon in the top menu.

So the image has to exist somewhere like photoshack, freeimage hosting, etc...

We could download the images when we publish the content, then it would be available as a mosimage.

A mosimage is put in by using the [Insert Image] button at the bottom left of the editor window.

First you would have to select the image and push it into workspace by using the >>> button, then re-select it in that workspace.

Then you can align it, add a caption and so on...

But the mosimage feature only works with images already uploaded onto the site.

Which of course you are free to use in your content.

But new images have to be added as a url linked image in the first place.

It seems complicated...but once you get the hang of it works quite well.

So If I'm writing an article or tutorial with images which are on my computer only I may as well email it zipped with the images - infact it could be a page or so written in html and an image folder?

Hello Elaine,
You could e-mail a .zip file with the html.
I think we would have to re-organise the image links, but that's not a problem.

The html code could then be pasted straight into the standard editor.