hi, I have read all thecomments people make, and I don't even understand what a "text editor" is, and where it is.

There are two editors on the page where you write posts. One is the visual editor, the other is the text editor.
In the visual editor you just type and format much the same as you would on a regular word processor program (some significant differences but don't worry about it for now: just write and publish). here is what that editor looks like:
http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/visual_editor2.png
In the text editor you will see the code which makes things work on your blog. html.
here is how the text editor looks:
http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/text_editor1.png
You can switch from the visual editor to the text editor like this:

Switching Editors

Switching between the Visual and Text editing modes is easy. Just use the tabs directly above the right side of the editing area.

below is the link to the whole support article about the two different editors:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/

Please somebody professional give me a simple solution to this?
<img src="http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/stor11.gif" alt="Smiley pixeled by Smileydesign" />

Just copy and then paste this into your text editor (you have to change from "visual editor") to make it work:
<img src="http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/stor11.gif" />

Please realize that I am not a child: people in their 30s are my children. I am old enough to know what you talk about. yes indeed, i can cook and sew and remember the octopus furnace in the basement where you had to load it with coal by hand from the room-sized coal bin if you wanted to be warm in winter.

But this is not so impossible: think of it as learning a new language. Which it is. Just take it a word at a time, a step at a time, one little accomplishment at a time. Age is not an excuse for not paying attention to details.

This was. REAL HP computer Co. engineer, who made, invented, eCt., these things, my HP Pavilion computer! -and these engineers'' of the computers cannot tell me how to do this .how is that, for jerks?

we don't get any instruction like you just suggested, from "continuing education" or local community classes ! you guys know all the stuff. they don't! they won't instruct us on this!

I have been in real classes with college-classes, with kids,starting out, blank, no knowledge at all. they hit me first, with advanced stuff! you had to be-a genius, like my sister is, (she's in California, I am in miserable, dump-trASh Oregon!)

(come to think of it,l can ask my sister, the computer geniUs, who learned it all by herself! she didn't need classes! sheesh!>: (

How about books? books!
basic, understandable books!Can you recommend good starting BoOKS for me?in real English? to cover this stuff? if l can can learn a whole manual of "dragon naturally speaking", l think l could get this.

I mean it;1 am Not a stUpid person; ;i bake real bread,cake from scratch,l know how to make my own pasta at home. I know how to make my own yogurt at home,I can cook French cuisine;1 am not a dummy! I used to teach adults how to bake and cook,as a living. I can manage a class,while we cook dinner for 20-25 people at a time.

Have you ever made brioche, or"buche de Noel "at home?Hah! Ido know how to do things! I used to sew much of my own own clothes. during the 70's,i wrote, drew,and published comic books, for years. duh.

But even we very capable seniors did not grow up with computers. I didn't start, until I was in my 5O'S and 60's . this is like star trek!

we oldsters often had outhouses, private weLLs, for water, haha! we seniors were using wood stoves, for heat during the winter. Yeah, real out houses. they arent so bad.

I saw the beginners of organic gardening! and got into "alternative health food, " when only hippies did it! Hah! l helped publish a comic book, to raise money, to get old timothy Leary out of jail. haha haha!: D (fun!)

I am not bragging; I just want yow to know, l am not really dumb. we seniors just came from a different world. A lot. a lot of us are just not techies, is all. yeah, a lot of this is like science fiction we used to read as kids and teens. (even "world climate change" was predicted in old science fiction.)

sigh. we were thrown into the future. ( many seniors are permanently not able to get jobs any more.) Give me a break; this science-fiction isnt easy to get used to. :) Peace!

It will never work on WordPress.com, nor anywhere else online. It is bad code.

If you're referring to the brackets [ ] instead of carats < >, it's not really 'bad code', it's BBCode used for discussion boards, forums, etc. It won't work here or anywhere that requires HTML or XHTML though.

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-cant-grabsavesmileys-off-siteto-put-onto-my-blog?replies=13#post-1135767

Here is a sample "code" from that site:
[img]http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/art09.gif[/img]

It will never work on WordPress.com, nor anywhere else online. It is bad code.

If you paste this part of it into a browser:
http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/art09.gif
then you will see the little spaghetti monster gif animated picture in a window.

If you want to insert it (or another one from that site) into a post on your blog, then you must click the add media button and use "insert from url" option. Use the link as I showed in my sample:
http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/art09.gif
and forget the other [img] nonsense.

What I described above is one way to insert a picture into your blog.

Please do try to work through the learning tutorial again. Really, if you are patient you will see that it is written in plain English.

You are going to have to teach me the different and what the heck they are. I don't use stuff like that.

Well, no, that's really not the purpose of this board.

Perhaps there's a class at an Adult Learning center or Community College in your area?

<img src="http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/stor11.gif" alt="Smiley pixeled by Smileydesign" />

is just basic image code. Just paste it into your blog using the Text editor.

http://learn.wordpress.com does not explain that, and its not even in English; it's in." engineering" or "programming ". ENGLISH, PLEASE.!> : (

Anyhow, it does seem like people here don't really know how to do it. And the professional who is here, just keeps referring me to first post. Which doesn't do any good.none of the advice actually works I have tried it.I have even tried copying the code of the month, and putting it in my blog, and it still doesn't work. So all that stuff about copying their code, and using it. no one can do. sorry for the advice, iv guesss this is a bad case.

The media button doesn't work; it does not pick them up, there is no way on this blog to do that.I tried to do the conventional right-click, "save", and that does not work. I actually put all the code of the smiley into my post, and that doesn't work; only code shows up.

So how do I get the smiley off "smiley design.net", pick them up and put them on my blog? They will not even get picked up by the media buttons...HOW! HOW? There must be a method without upgrading to a paid blog. I'm not ready for that.
there hello, this is all stuff I could get off that website "it's just junk.". It is not smiley saving and right clicking does not work. Oh, and the code won't work either.

Please somebody professional give me a simple solution to this?
<img src="http://www.smileydesign.net/smileys/stor11.gif" alt="Smiley pixeled by Smileydesign" />

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