Hi there,

First off, my thanks to Ms Beighley and her team for "Drupal for Dummies" because it got me started almost painlessly on Drupal. It was really easy to follow along and the detailed instructions really helped and I'm on Day 4 working on Drupal building my site on my local machine.

My question is: how come an image from the local server does not display (I get a broken document thumbnail image)?

On pg 114, to add an image, using the URL of an image already online with the img html tag works when I click save on a blog entry for example. e.g.
<img src="http://www.somewebsite.com/832.jpg" />

On my local machine, I set full html filter and inserted these various combinations but no pictures came out (only the alt texts if I put them).
1. <img src=".../images_test/382.JPG" width="168" />
2. <img src="file:/C:/xampp/htdocs/drupal/sites/default/files/images_test/832.JPG" />
3. <img src="832.JPG" />
4. <img src="file:///C|//localhost/drupal/sites/default/files/images_test/832.JPG"/>

What am I doing wrong? How do I insert the correct code? How do I manually input pictures from my images folder in the computer? My problem is I think I don't know where the web pages for drupal is stored. I thought the path is C:/xampp/htdocs/drupal/sites/default/files/images_test/832.JPG, I put the images inside sites but it doesn't show up on content entries.

I'm asking on the drupal.org forums for an image upload module that works with ckeditor, but in case that doesn't work out and I need to insert images manually, how do I do so? Is the only alternative to get the pictures hosted on a site such as flickr so I can use the URL?

Thanks very much for your help in advance. I've been searching on the net for answers to see how to insert images manually but typing out various combinations doesn't work, my knowledge is still rather shallow so I very much appreciate ideas on how to solve this!

Cheers.