You sure can include images even as a dayling, even if those images are a photo of your new pedicured tootsies. Even if something isn't "ancient" perhaps it's just a way for folks to better connect with you, so why not. Personally I walk that line between "ancient" and "goofy modern" rather often *L*

So to include images of any kind (graphics you've made or downloaded, photos, clip art, whatever) first you need a place to store it. In AncientWorlds, that storage spot is your "Image Gallery", located under those three little stat boxes in your AW homesite entrance.

As a citizen your image gallery is really small. Meaning it will only hold roughly one avatar, 1 background image, 3 perspective images and maybe two small items if they are optimized in size. Not much! Each level of purchased patronage gives you a bigger image gallery size until the millenium patronage which gives you 10,000mb. What many folks do is to instead host their images off site. I have my own space for example that I pay for. For a good free hosting service, many recommend Photo Bucket. It's free to register and use.

Your goal is to host your chosen images somewhere, then plop them in place using code. This is where it gets a little net geeky, but once you learn this and use it, you will never forget it. Here is the code to place an image in your homesite or in posts (or anywhere on the net really):

<img src="URL OF IMAGE" alt="NAME OF IMAGE" />

Now let's put this to use.

Reply to this by starting a new post. (Make sure that the new post is in a seperate window so you can continue to follow along in this one).

Inside that post, choose "HTML" in the drop down box next to the "Body of Message" at the top.

Try your hand at typing the img src code I placed above in that post body. It should look exactly the same for it to work.

Then remove the URL OF IMAGE (but not the quote marks around it!).

Ok, now we need to obtain the url or address of an image to make this work. Each image has it's own url, which is the exact folder and location of where it is stored. Alot of people new to internet coding make the mistake of linking to an image address that is really on their own computer. As in "C\\my folder" or whatever. The only one that can see those images are you. They have to be uploaded somewhere that provides a connection to the internet (ie server) to be seen by others. For your post example, let's just use my avatar.

Right click on it. Go down to "Properties". Inside properties you should see where it says "ADDRESS/URL of image" with the long http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/blah blah blah after it. Now highlight that address with your mouse and copy it (CTRL button + letter C).

Go to the area of the img src code you typed into that post where URL OF IMAGE used to be. Paste that exact Address/url into that area, making sure it is complete and without any spaces before or after. Only quote marks should be around it. Now your image code should look like this:

<img src="http://www.ancientworlds.net/aworlds_media/ibase_1/00/12/90/00129067_080.gif" alt="NAME OF IMAGE" />

Change the name of image to say "Laras avatar" or something. Then hit submit for that post. You should see my avatar in your post.

Don't worry about your level of computing savvy. We all started somewhere, and a huge amount of us started right here on this site including yours truly.