hello!

[hexenmeister]

Hey folks- I'm californiabaelaurel over on tumblr. I've belatedly decided to give DW a try. I've lurked quite a bit on DW/LJ, but only been an active fandom participant on tumblr.

I'm a bit socially anxious/confused about how to use this website as an actual posting person, but also excited to engage more deeply with less content and have longer, more involved discussions!

Pretty much I'm just here for due South.

Say hi (and/or let me know if I'm doing dreamwidth wrong, haha!).

Comments

[clevermanka]

Here's a good tutorial for learning how to insert images using HTML (this will work for comments on DW--when you're posting an entry, you have the option of using the buttons at the top of the post in Rich Text view). You don't need to add all the fancy stuff like the alt, height, and width tags, just the img src="URL for gif image" part is fine.

The biggest thing to pay attention to is that you're actually including the URL for the image, not the page on which the image appears. Sites like GIPHY and Tenor are tricky that way. For example, here's the URL of the page on which a gif appears:
https://giphy.com/gifs/due-south-pilot-episode-paul-gross-NHGWPRbo9p1F6
But here's the actual gif:
https://media.giphy.com/media/NHGWPRbo9p1F6/giphy.gif

To get from one to the other, right-click on the image at the first link and choose "View Image."

So if you want to play around with inserting images in comments, there you go! Hope you have fun with it if you decide to give it a try.

[hexenmeister]

That was super helpful!

[clevermanka]