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Hi john , what is the URLs for this site??
Thanks

You don't need to worry about that URL thingy if you only want to post photos, Red.

Think that is for loading videos from YouTube, Vimeo etc?

Bob

That wasn't good advice by me, Red. :-)

That URL box is, I think, if you wish to load a photo from somewhere other than your own My Pictures files.

Bob

Bigred13, to answer your question above you need to know the meaning of URL. From this page we get the definition:

"URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet."

Everything that is on the web is a resource. URL is just shorthand for the page or photo whereabouts (or address.) ExplorOz has many URLs, there is one for every page, you can view the one for the page you are viewing in the address line at the top of your browser. You will note that change every time you visit a new page.

Your picture is a resource but it is not on the web until you post it. When you click on "Insert Images & Files" you get two options. You use the "Add Photos & Files" option.

After you have posted your photo it will have a URL. To find it you right click on the photo and select the option "Copy Image Location" (in Firefox, may be a similar name in other browsers.) If you then right click into a word processor page and select "Paste" the URL will appear in that document. You can also paste that URL into the address line in a browser and your picture will show without the rest of the page it came from. You can do this trick with someone elses photos to post them in your replies.

Play around with this and see what you can do with the web.