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Hi Gang, After you register and receive your password (which is software generated, no one else knows it), if you are an owner or resident in Highland Park, your posting abilities will be upgraded from comment only to the ability to post and publish. On the posting page, there is a right hand sidebar. Concern yourself with only Categories (choose one) and Discussion (allow comments or not. Pings are not allowed). Below the Post box is the Upload box. You can upload pictures or files. Treat files like pictures, but make a link instead of a picture. Copy and pasting files really don’t work because the formatting is different. Don’t bother with the stuff below the upload box. You will never need them. If you want to leave this page before you are done, select “Save”. If you want to save while you are going along, select “Save and Continue…”. If you don’t publish it will be saved as a draft, and you can go back and publish later. After you publish, you can still edit your own posting. Have Fun!

Below your posting box, there is an “upload” box. Hit “browse” which will browse your computer for a file or image. Open and then upload. When you have the image, (make sure your image is sized for the web..72-95 resolution). After upload, click on the picture, it will bring up options. Choose thumbnail or original, linked to image or page or not linked (choose not linked for now). Then choose close options. Technically, we should be able to drag and drop the image into the editor box.  It works with IE, but not my Firefox. Instead, right click the image, click on “copy image location”. Then in the post box tool bar click on the “insert/edit image” icon. In this box after “Image URL” right click and click “paste” or key “ctrl, v”. If the image is too big, click on it and it will bring up the resize box. You can fiddle with the “alignment” choices. I haven’t found a choice that allows you to move the image to a different location on the page. I’ll let you know. Wordpress does have tutorials. This version is 2.0.2, so you have to be aware of what version your tutorial is talking about. In order to get fancy with your postings, you will have to do some studying.
Notes from the couch…