Thank you very much for this information. I just printed it up. I have not been able to post pictures and was going to ask for help. Someone suggested TiniPic as an easy site. You don't need to register or anything. But I didn't know which tag or how to get it in a post. I'm going to try your suggestions. Thanks, Jane

Great article & a wonderful garden!-Boca Joe's posts & photos have been an inspiration for me. When you have that many plants in containers, it's alot of work during the summer & trying to overwinter even a fraction of them requires planning, space, & a love of tropicals...

MsRose, not sure you were here back when GW changed from management by Spike to sell-out to IVillage, but there was a chorus of forumers who did not want their pictures copied or saved by others, nor used by GW, who has the right to them (although they have never used them for any gain) but many, many people left GW at about that time, although I saw no problem with it. Neither my photographs nor many of the ones I have ever seen rivaled a magazine quality photograph, so I doubt anyone would copy them for profit. The only problem I see with having photographs here is that if family members are included in them and the pictures of your homes, especially if you have given out the name of the town in which you live or the "house number" is adhered to the front of the picture. I don't buy into bogeymans everywhere, but the internet has really brought them all out, so if it is a new feature perhaps it is to protect the posters.

To imbed images in your GardenWeb posts there are three steps: 1. Digitize photos 2. Upload pics to the internet (hosting site) 3. Link to the pics Digitize Many people have digital cameras, which automatically digitize their pics. You can also have your photos developed with a company which will save your pics onto a CD. There are other photo developing companies which will upload your pics onto an 'album' created for you on their web site. A last option is to scan your pics manually. Upload to the Internet Most of the free image hosting sites have disappeared but if you'll check the properties of a photo inserted into a GW message (place cursor on pic, select right mouse button, then select Properties> you can see which image hosting site that person uses. Another way to find image hosting sites is to do a search for "free image hosting". There are many free image hosting sites but very few allow direct linking - that is, allow your pic to appear from within a GW message. Once you've chosen an image hosting site you'll need to follow the instructions on that site to upload the images from your computer. Generally it involves creating a userID, creating albums, then navigating thru your computer to specify the location of the pic(s) you want to upload. Link GardenWeb allows HTML coding within the body of a message. The format of that HTML is: [img src=""] where you use less than symbols instead of the [ and ]. Type that exact code into your GW message but put the URL of your pic within the quotes.