Links are easy!

Just put the words or picture into your article that you want the link put into. Select it, and hit the link tool in the toolbar right above the editing pane.

The link tool looks like a chain.

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Type or paste your link into the top box - remember, you MUST have the whole link, including http://. If you do not, it won't work.

Images are a little more complex, but not too hard. If you scroll down, you'll see an Image button at the bottom of the edit pane. Now, there is a standard Image button in the top toolbar (looks like a little tree), but DON'T use that unless you already know how to FTP and all that. Use the one at the bottom, and it will upload the image for you.

So, click on that Images button, and then on Browse. Locate the image on your computer, and then hit Upload. After it uploads it will appear in the image window in the middle. Select it, and then up at the top,  click Insert, and your image will appear in your content. If you need to align it left or right, you can do that by clicking on the image, and clicking the little tree icon up above. You can set the alignment, and horizontal or vertical spacing.

Remember, you need to scale your images down BEFORE you upload them!

Make sure they are not wider than 450 pixels or so, for most templates. Wider than that in some templates can make your template do weird things!

Just because an image LOOKS a certain size on your screen does not mean it IS that size. Unless you measure it in pixels, the measurements may be wrong. The height is not terribly important, but the width is - width of an image can break a layout (if that happens to your layout, you'll understand what it means to "break" a layout!).

To scale an image, open it in an image editor, like PhotoShop Elements, or The GIMP (free). Find a command for Resizing an image in one of the menus. That will usually get you a dialog box, where you can change the measurements to pixels.

Do NOT use inches or anything else, it won't work the same. Web dimensions must be done in pixels. Usually you can change just the width, and the height will automatically change also.

Save the image as a jpg if it is a photo, or as a gif if it is clipart or only has text in it. Then it will be ready to upload.