You can then continue editing the post, adding text above or below the photo:



That's it. If you know some basic HTML, you can also control the layout a little better and do other neat things like:

* Make images clickable links

* Specify the alignment of the photo -- left, right or center, using the following HTML:

Stuff you want to center

* Add alt text, which is text that describes the photo and shows up before the image loads -- this is important to visually-impaired visitors who use screen readers.

I will dive deeper into some of these things in a future entry.

FYI, one thing I find that makes blogging easier is the use of tabbed browsing (which is a lot like Tabbed IMs in the AOL software, only with browser windows). It makes it a lot easier to switch between different windows. Firefox and AOL Explorer both support tabbed browsing -- it makes things a lot faster for me.