good tip .. i just tried jazzing up a link within my comment under Riley's airplane blog entry. works great!

Brian and Craig appear able to post photos (or links to photos) in their comments to other people's blogs.

I don't quite see how to write the html code for that. For example, how does the code specify the photo file? I've tried to upload photos on comments using the (cut and paste html) system that we use to upload photos to our blogs - but without luck thus far.

Any advice?

It is not possible to post photos specifically into the comments area. However, you can post links that go to photos (you have already uploaded or elsewhere online) or even another url.

Using Brian's example found on Heather/Kris's NY Blog, I have posted his exact code in an image, link to it found after these instructions. (since the comment field won't take images)

The key are the a tags around the URL of your image/link. You need to include one carrot symbol pointing each way (they look like arrows pointing left/right in the image at the beginning and end of every tag. They are missing from the code below as they will not show up.

1. Your open "a" tag includes the link and reads as this, minus all instances of the vertical bar [ | ] - (you need the double quotes around your URL:

|a| |href|=|"|http://www.mckinneytree.info/brian_mckinney/craigkris.JPG|"|

2. Enter your text you wish to be seen and clickable. Text from Brian's example:

Craig has picked up a few tricks to get by in Brooklyn

3. Now you need to close your link so addition text in your comment (or on the page in the code) will not be clickable. To do so you put in the follow close "a" tag, again minus all instances of the vertical bar [ | ] :

|/| a

That's all! Let us know if you have more issues, or would like to have the code above delivered as a text document to copy and paste from.

Click here to view example image.