Here is the link to my "hold everything for later usage" website. . .click on RJ Personal Stuff to see the photo in questions
Ah, see, exactly as I thought: The HTML to display that picture on your page is written like this:
<a HREF="../_uimages/TheScreens.JPG" target="_blank">
<img SRC="../_uimages/TheScreens.JPG" BORDER="0" WIDTH="200"></a>
the WIDTH="200" attribute of the IMG tag sets the picture's display width to 200 pixels (with the height equal to 145 pixels). However, after someone clicks on the picture to view the larger display, the 1275X927 pixels version comes up for them in a separate browser window.
When you read the "posting" page in the forum's Help section, or you read Luciaphil's "regarding pictures" topic on this board, you probably noticed that the YaBBC IMG tag takes both a "width" and a "height" attribute. Unlike HTML, though, both have to be specified for them to work properly.
Now, with a monitor's display set to 800X600 (the best setting to read the forum), the largest width an image can be without a portion of it disappearing off the right hand side is approximately 527 pixels. The easiest way to figure out the corresponding height is to try to resample/resize an image in whatever graphics software you might have on your computer. But if someone doesn't really understand how the resample/resize feature works, or if their software doesn't have that feature, the only other way to figure it out is to resort to a simple proportion equation. If you'd like the picture to display as 527 pixels wide in your post, you'd figure it out like this:
1275 527
---- = ---
927 x
927 * 527
--------- = x
1275
488529
------ = x
1275
383.16 = x
We need a whole number. The .16 is lower than .5, so instead of rounding up to 384, we just drop the .16 entirely, and the dimension you would use for the Grayson photo is 527X383. So, in your post, you'd say:
[img width=527 height=383]http://home.earthlink.net/~rjjamison/_uimages/TheScreens.JPG[/img]
Now, aren't you so glad you asked how to make it display smaller?
I've taken the liberty of fixing your post for you this time, as I also did back in April when a similar situation came up with the picture of Don Briscoe, Grayson and David Henesy in your "Have A Hunk" post, which is the second post on page 6 of that topic, which can now be found as the second topic down on page 47 of the Current Talk II board in the General Discussion Archive. (You might recall that photo is stored as 1458X2047 in your Earthlink Web space, and I resized it to 500X702 for you.)
Next time you're on your own...