Our cruise in March was our first cruise ever! We are definitely hooked. We became DVC members in Oct. of 06, so we also stayed at BCV before the cruise and OKW after the cruise. We are doing a Princess cruise to Alaska in June that is a surprise for the kids. Since we only have to drive for 15 minutes, then take a 35 minute ferry ride to the port, we just couldn't pass it up. It should be fun! Can someone tell me how to post the pirate banner onto the bottom of my reply? Also, how do I post a picture? I'll put one up from the trip. Thanks!
Posting an image - you will need to select or find an image you want to "borrow" - then have a spot in the posting which you are drafting ready. SO ... the HTML commands look like the following only I've put a "dunny set of XXXX where your image address should go...
Now what you can't see is that IF you substitue the command line for the image where the XXXXXs are then the picture will appear and none of the HTML code will show. ALSO what is invisible is I added a command to the above example to CENTER it on the line. It is the word center surrounded by brackets with the right hand bracket preceeded by the slash "/".
So where do I get an image? Well... I'll tell you what I do... I go to google... and from the top left I select IMAGE. Then I try one or two key words that would be associated with what I have in mind to illustrate.
Lets' try an example. Try searching on the words captain crash. In the second row tonight is a cartoon thumbnail image and it should look like this...
If you click on the ICON / thumbnail it will bring up a new window with another thumbnail isolated at the top. You are not done yet as you're looking for the full sized image... so click on THAT thunbnail image at the top again. Now a plain page will appear with the final full sized image.
I should mantion that you generally want an image to be viewable in size but not so large as to annoy everyone because it is GIGANTIC and soaking up bandwidth. SO an ideal sized image is anything above 150x100 up to about 640x480. With dimensions midway being ideal. The cartoon size I used above is cited as 341x350 ... so it is perfect by my standards.
With the large image on screen do a RIGHT button click on the image. A drop down menu will appear and at the BOTTOM should be a selection titled "properties".... select that one. NOW.... a small window should pop up and in the CENTER of that window will be a line titled Address (URL). This is what you copy and insert into the space marked XXXXX between the braacketed IMG commands. Be careful to copy the entire URL line as you can typically see only TWO lines of code. Sometimes if you don't see the end of the line then you won't see the "JPEG" or "GIF" concluding letters. SO - to copy the entire code line you need to put your insertion point at the beginning of the visible URL and click and drag downwards ... and the URL will SCROLL to revel the next invisible line of code. Get the whole thing and do a control "c" to copy it.
Now that you've got the pictures' URL code on your clipboard you go over to the editing window of the posting you want to enter. You can short cut generating the bracketed HTML command IMG by clickling the tan box - second from the right hand last button when you're in the DIS posting editor.
At any rate... click the insertion point to go between the bracketed IMG. And then click a control "V" to insert the URL code. You may want to highlight the entire line and click the "center" justification button from the editor and the center HTML commands will appear for you.
Now try posting it. If you get the cartoon URL ... that code will look like the following.
And the final image posted and centered will look like this...
Hope that was not too confusing. Maybe someone else can simplify the process for you. But you can copy and rip almost any image this way. And if you copy and post a GIF - ocassionally they are animated images! Those are MY favorites ... but be careful not to select an image GIF that is much larger then 512K as it could soak up bandwidth for those folks on dial up. BE a good neighbor. As they said in Spiderman 1.....
"with great power comes great responsibility!"
My daughter might be willing to babysit for money. She is a very responsible 12 year old. Yes, we have a room assignment. Our TA did an amazing job of getting a last minute cabin. I believe he might have even pulled in a favor. Our room # is 1036. Last cruise was on 6070, so this will be a slightly different view. Oh well, we are just happy to have a cabin!
rotfl2: ) keep forgetting to take pictures of doors. Can I please impose on you and ask you to post your slideshow on there? 
Alas, the scenery is rich and nicely textured.
and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today.
aboard to all the newbies.
DW would say your first problem is using Crappy Canon and no amount of help is going to overcome that!
Oh my, did I type that out loud? 
