A Post on Posting
I know posting on bad colonies is not the easiest and I have been delinquent on providing a tutorial. Now that we have some much welcomed new contributors, I have decided to put together a little tutorial. I also revised the sample code to provide the basic info you will need. It still is not perfect but this should give you a good start.

For this example we will create a simple post showing an image, some quoted text, and linking to the original site as shown above.

First we click the "create content" button and arrive at the above page. On top of the page we have all the code we will need to create our post.

Copy and paste the "image", "quote", and "link" code into your post as shown above. Note that I have also selected two secondmost tags, "auto" and "green". You can do this by ctrl clicking them. The img code is surrounded by two tags for centering. You can use these tags to center anything, such as videos, by simply putting them on either end of the code.
Now we need to obtain the content to fill this in. The text to be replaced with the appropriate information is shown in red. We will start with the image.

Right click on the image from the original page and select "save image as" to save it to your computer.

Open up photobucket.com and upload the image from your computer. You will need an account with photobucket.

Once the photo is uploaded you will eventually arrive at a page with this information. Select the "direct" address as shown above. Paste this address into your post in place of www.addresshere.com in the code "img src=http://www.addresshere.com class="postimg". Incidentally, the code class="postimg" gives the photo the black border. The image should be no greater than 575 px in width. You can resize the image in photobucket.
Now we will add the quoted text and the link.

Copy the text and the link from the original page as shown above.

Paste this information in place of the placeholder text as shown above. Note that you may choose any text for the link that replaces "Display Text". I usually just put the basic web url. Note that the code target="new" simply makes the link open in a new window.

We now have a post that looks like this. Hopefully this helps.
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