How to Put an Image on the Front Porch
by Dave (Felt) Feltenberger

Once you have posted the picture to your own web site, the easiest way to get it posted to the porch is to do the following:

• In your web browser, navigate to the page where the picture is located.
• Place your mouse pointer over the picture and click the left mouse button.
• A little dialog box will come up. The box will have a long list of selections. The last one on the list will be PROPERTIES. Click that.
• Another box will pop up. In it will be the address of your document. No spelling errors. The address will begin with http:// and will end with the name you gave the picture file.You will know which one it is right off, because it says "Address" right in front of it. Highlight the address.
• If you do not know how to highlight text, it is easy. Put your mouse pointer at the beginning (or end) of the text you want to highlight, hold down the left mouse button, and slide the pointer to the other end of the text you want to highlight. A small black box will surround the text you have highlighted as you slide your pointer. When you have highlighted the whole address of your picture, release the left mouse button. The text will remain highlighted.
• To get the address into a buffer, hold down the CTRL button (lower left corner of your keyboard) and simultaneously press the C key on your keyboard. (Computer geeks call this "Ctrl/C". When a normal human being says it, it sounds like "Control See.")  Now you have the address in a paste buffer, even though you cannot see that anything has happened. It's a little like making your house payment—you just have to believe it happens after you do your part. Unlike your house payment, though, you will soon be able to see the results.
• Now, when you go to the Rural Herritage Front Porch and want to post your picture, simply navigate to the thread to which you would like to post, type whatever introduction you would like to do in the Response box, and then paste in your address from the paste buffer. Paste by doing a "Control Pee" ("Ctrl/P" in geek speak). This time you see the contents of your paste buffer spill out into the Response box, the house payment equivalent of getting your next month's mortgage statement. (If you think you have followed these instructions and the address does not appear as described, you have probably failed to get the address into your paste buffer. An easy way isto use the Copy and Paste functions provided in your browser's Edit menu. Simply highlight the text as described above. Then click the edit menu at the top of your browser screen, and then click Copy. This will accomplish the same thing you did with control/C. When you get to the Rural Heritage page and want to paste your text into your post, select Edit/Paste.)
• The address of your picture will appear in your post exactly as you have pasted it there until the Rural Heritage A-Team reviews your post and the webmaster converts the address of your picture (otherwise known as the picture's URL) into a hyper-link. Like magic, your picture will appear in your post.
  

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