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MPL38
MPL38
Photo-The Chumuckla School Road
Mar 10 2009, 1:07 AM EDT | Post edited: Mar 10 2009, 1:07 AM EDT
The Photo shown on this page is a reminder of my younger years. My parents lived on the left side of the road that is shown in this photo. We lived right across the road from the old Commissary. The house was surrounded by pecan trees and the pecans were easy to shell. I believe they were the Paper Shell variety.
Good memories-good life
Thanks to this website for bringing me home again.
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me3tv
me3tv
1. Adding your own Pictures
Mar 14 2009, 10:30 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 14 2009, 10:30 PM EDT
When you make a new page you get to choose one of several "templates" like album, or calendar etc...
Often I just pick "blank".

They may have some writing there as hints to help you along. In the edit process you can delete any of that stuff. Sometimes you see pages with the hints still there so others who are learning can figure it out.

For photos... i like ot add first a "TABLE" from the edit bar. set it for 2 columns and maybe 3 plus rows and set it to not show the table lines. (they show in the edit phase).

Click the big Edit button (you only see this if you are logged in as a writer or up). Place your cursor in a box of your table that you want the picture. now select the picture icon in the edit bar and follow directions. FIrst you will upload a photo from your computer and then it will place into the space you have your cursor. Once a lot of photos are up - they are in a photo collection that lets you upload again the same picture to different pages if you want.

They do have a limit on picture size (file size) .. which will show in the help links. I usually create a copy of my digital photos that are several megabytes -- and make the copy something like 650 or 800 pixels wide and 72dpi (max computer resolution). 800 pixels will fill a web page up.
650 or 600 is probabably better for most. Resizing photos for the web is pretty common. A lot of email programs do that automatically because sending 4mb photo snapshots gets to be time consuming. You may know this already. Just saying for clarity. You can do it also with photoshop or with some free programs that are great for managing photos - like google's picasa. you can download it from google - it is free. see google extras.

As you play with it .. it will get clear. And you'll learn fast. At some point it will become natural . Do you find this valuable?    
me3tv
me3tv
2. A sample wetpaint site with photos
Mar 14 2009, 10:34 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 14 2009, 10:34 PM EDT
A friend of mine in Sparta, MYron Leski ... cought on to this quickly and now he has a fantastic artists website.
http://myronleskifineart.wetpaint.com/
Use it for an example. You can open anyone's page and "copy" the content... and then paste it to your page.
then you have a "template". Just change the pictures and the words. I have done this sometimes. Certainly it is not right to copy other people's content ... but you are only taking for the template - not the content. Do you find this valuable?    
me3tv
me3tv
3. adding a video
Mar 15 2009, 8:16 AM EDT | Post edited: Mar 15 2009, 8:16 AM EDT
a little different with video.
they provide a video gadget.
you put THAT on the page where you want the video.
but ... BEFORE THAT
you upload your video to youtube ..
and youtube accounts are easy as well....
But -- with the video on Youtube (or other video services )
the "gadget" or other "html" assist - you will get a " line of code" to cut and paste into your wetpaint "gadget". the video then plays on your webpage but it is hosted and streamed from youtube. Do you find this valuable?    
me3tv
me3tv
4. Add more Photos on Flicker
Mar 15 2009, 8:25 AM EDT | Post edited: Mar 15 2009, 8:25 AM EDT
I set up a FLICKR account for our Chumuckla "staff" to upload photos anytime. The flickr accout has some advantages over wetpaint but it is a different site. It is linked from the wetpaint site for anyone to view photos and comment on them.
the username is chumucklanews. the password is what we call the place where the tom thumb is. Just go to flickr.com and use these id's to sign in. Then look at te photo stream -- and add pictures aas you wish.
You can also start your own flickr or picasa account and just link to THAT from your pages or any other page in the site.
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