h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's a bit of a mouthful, mind if I call you Robert for short?

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I was wanting to write a fairly large guide on how to play basic guitar and i would need to use illustrations if possible. I know html pretty well... if that helps. But is it possible to do this??

Ah, I see you've changed your name to confuse me - well done!

It's certainly possible to include pictures in your entries, as long as you own the copyright on the pictures and have some webspace to host them on - unfortunately you can't upload pictures directly to the h2g2 servers at the moment, although that's something which might happen in the future...

You can write your entry in HTML format (I guess you know how to include pictures in HTML), or change to h2g2's own GuideML format - this is similar to HTML (based on XML, in fact) and is actually the preferred format as The People Who Do That Kind Of Thing are threatening to switch off HTML support at some point in the future and just use GuideML.

If you want to give GuideML a try, there's a guide at http://www.h2g2.com/GuideML-Clinic which should point you in the right direction, including the GuideML PICTURE tag which I think may be of some help.

Good luck!

yes i changed my name.... inspired by the sperm whale that materializes over Magrathia(if that is how you spell it)
thanks for letting me know.. i do have plenty of wespace and i will take the photos ( of my hand playing the guitar ) with my digicam.

i still need to look and see if there is already an entry on this subject... so bye bye

well i found an entry but it is definately not adequate if you really want to play the guitar so i am still going on with the entry.