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OK thanks, but I have a good copy without any pixellation, got it to post twice but thumbnail size both times.

Never knew much HTML anyway and I’ve forgotten most of it in 20 years, and trying to use a different hosting site than Flickr. I’ve been noticing Flickr is sluggish lately and I’d like to keep it all my photography too so I’m trying out another site, but they use different code and I can’t figure out which one works so far....

Original is here

https://postimg.org/image/440qd0lt9/

They have a half dozen forms of code listed, I haven’t been able to figure out which one I can use with just copy & paste the way Flickr works. Planning to look at the HTML help page here on FR later, just thought I’d try it a time or two.

<img src="https://s6.postimg.org/nlvdsyir5/Cu_X1dtg_XEAAREw3a.jpg" width="50%">Yields:

With the proliferation of display devices, screens now come in a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios. The image below illustrates the range of screens possible. Differing aspect ratios are shown on the diagonal lines with the ratio in circles towards the lower right.

Given the wide variation in screen resolution and size when we step from mobi to fondleslab to display to HDTV it is lunacy to specify screen position in term of pixels. There is no way to know what sized screen you are imaging to so it is best to reference screen sizes and positions in percentages instead. The resulting size is the percentage of the width (or height) of the enclosing container. This is most useful when specifying positions and sizes of tables and images. The HTML for the image above looks like:

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Vector_Video_Standards5.svg" width="95%">

The width="95%" part sets the image width to 95% of the width of the enclosing container. We leave the height unspecified so that the computer will figure out the correct value so as not to distort the image. If you wish to distort the image you may specify a height as well.

Things that are text related, such as the whitespace around a paragraph or header and text sizes are best specified in em. One em was originally the width of an M in the current font. In a multi-lingual world where not all alphabets have an M in them, the meaning has evolved to mean the height of the current font. As the user changes the magnification on a page the size of an em changes with it. This produces a pleasing scaled effect to the eye not possible when spacing objects in pixels.

Other unit values available are in inch, cm centimeter, mm millimeter, ex x-height of a font (x-height is usually about half the font-size), pt point - 1/72 of an inch, pc pica - 12 points and px pixels - a single dot on the screen. If no units are specified pixels are used by default. Best results across the broad spectrum of displays are achieved by exclusively using em and percent to specify size and distance. Try not to do anything else.