Which probably doesn't belong here, but here is where I know people and feel safe. I want to use the html format in my gallery posting but don't know html. [I know it's relatively easy--imagine a relatively old woman with no room for memory upgrade] Can I use Word to format it and transfer from that?? Emily feeling like a bit of a jerk asking this

Oh, don't worry. After all, we all start somewhere. You can use any text editor, including notepad and wordpad. If you go to www.about.com, under their Computing section should be an HTML and web authoring section with plenty of lessons and tutorials for all experience levels. There's also plenty of free editors, both code (which isn't nearly as intimidating as it sounds) and WYSIWYG.

Attached Link: http://www.tucows.com/htmledit95.html

If you're looking for a good, free, web page editor, you might want to look at Coffeecup HTML. I've includeed a link from the Tucows web site that will show a list of HTML editors you could check out. If you want to put some HTML code in your gallery, you'd need to know a few simple HTML commands or codes... Exactly what do you wish to do there? I never saw much need for HTML in my gallery or forum posts, but others do.. so what the heck?! Did you know Renderosity does have an HTML forum too? Please don't feel dumb or guilty for asking such a question!! Ron 

Thank you, I've put up tons of Web pages, just always used PageMill or GoLive and never got into the guts, so to speak. So. . .just writing in it sounds daunting. Emily Good Site!

The reason I'm finally asking is-- I want to start an extended story in the galleries and I want it to be farily readable. That would mean html and some formatting. Everything seems to be about webpages, and for that I can still use PageMill and GoLive. I have heard CoffeeCup is great. I feel dumb, Ron, cause I;ve been doing webpages for nearly 10 years and have a major fan site and Still don't know html. Emily

Emily, I've been doing my own humble web sites for 6 years, and only care to know just a little HTML. That's all I need to use. I've been using either FrontPage or Dreamweaver to do my web sites. You can cheat a little on "knowing HTML" if you like. Dreamweaver defaults to the "Design" view which shows what your page will look like. You can switch to "Code" view to view the actual HTML code. Now maybe your editors have such options? You just do the page the easy way then look at the resulting code?! ***** Hey, I feel like a dummy lots of the time, with web sites, Poser and other software. And I'm getting a reputation as a producer of Poser Newbie Tutorials!!!

Just get the idiots html guide it's fairly cheap and as comprehensive as you'll probably need. It will definately save you brain cells. (unless you want to count visitors to your site.)

MS Word's version of HTML has a very bad reputation for putting out bloated HTML code.

Ron, do you EVER sleep... I haven't tinkered with much HTML, but I do have a beginner's guide to HTML that I printed off. If you do a search on the I'Net, I'm sure you'll find something like it...that's where I got mine. Unless you are looking to do some really complicated stuff, most of the "general" commands are straight-forward. My usual problem is making sure my "beginnings" and "endings" are symetrical (sp?). Tags and such. Oh, and as an asker of really newbie questions, I'd have to avoid all appearances of hypocricy and say "No question is dumb". People here, from what I have seen, are not only helpful, but eager to help.

Here's my workaround. I opened a gallery page that had html'd comments. Viewed it as source in my browser, copied the part that involved the comments--see, I'm not putting up a page so I didn't want the tags that were associated with that. Pasted that into CoffeeCup. Saved it as gallery template. I'll write my stuff in that and it'll be jake. I hope. We'll see. Emily