iKat wants to know...

> one more time / how does one post a picture at the dwblog ?

First you have to have contributor status.

You already do, iKat.

(Almost all the active dubbers have contributor status. If I missed you, and you wanna post there, email me. )

Second, login to the site.

You must already know how to do this, as you posted there.

Third, click on the link on the right sidebar entitled, "images."

Next, click on the link titled "add a new image."

The resulting form is fairly self-explanatory. You will browse to the file - on your local drive, most likely, but you can point to a pic anywhere on the web by using the full URL.

Pick a name for the pic if you like, or let antville choose one for you based on the file name.

If it is a large pic, the antville code will automagically resize the pic to be 400 pixels in the longest axis, UNLESS you over-ride the pic size in the submission form to keep it larger. It will, in any case, automagically generate a thumbnail to use as a link to the full size pic if you like.

This procedure uploads the pic to the antville server, for use in any story.

To insert the pic, using a macro to do so is the easiest way, though it can be done with standard html code.

Say that you uploaded a pic called "DSC00092.JPG" Antville will have named that pic "DSC00092"

Use the following code...

<% image name="DSC0009" %>

That will insert the pic.

If you choose to rename the pic as you upload it to the blog, say, to "pizza", use ...

<% image name="pizza" %>

If you wanna use the thumbnail, the macro changes slightly to...

<% thumb name="DSC0009" %> or <% thumb name="pizza" %>

You can use standard HTML tags, or stylesheets, on the image. As an example, you can insert and center a pic called MyPic with the following
code...

< center>
<% image name="MyPic" %>
</center %>

Ok, that's Antville Images 101. Email me iffn anything is unclear or I've left out something.

now accepting applications for the job of co-administrator. y'all wouldn't wanna have me croak on you and leave you up a creek without a password, would ya?

didn't think so.

iffn you wanna be a contibutor here, then you have to register (off the login page) and then susbscribe to the site, if it happened to be that you registered at another blog (that means all you folks that registered at my site)

after you've subscribed, i'll "promote" you to contributor. this gives you the permissions to create stories, and later edit them or even delete them if you wish.

if you want to use an image, load it using the form you'll see in the imagepool link. other types of files, say, a word doc, a java applet, a snippet of code, even html that you wanna reuse, are loaded in the goodiepool. you can even load an mp3, but there is a one meg limit on the size of uploaded goodies. you then use a macro to load the image or goodie into the body of your entry.

rummage around the help blog, the macro blog, or, if you really wanna get down and dirty with the bones of the code, the project blog, to learn how to use the macros. i'll help all i can, but know that i'm still learnng this software, too.

as an antville user, you can post question on all those aforementioned blogs, and the real geeks are usually gracious enough to help, so long as you're not asking a question they've already answered seventeen times, and is there for your enlightenment in the archives. as always, rtfm. the search function works real well to skim through them.

i'm sure you'll run into many questions, if you can't figure something out, shoot me an email and i'll get back to you as soon as i can.