i'm having a bit of a issue trying to put images into my posts to people. i use the and put the url between but it just shows up as a box and the people i'm discussing with cant see the image either. am i doing something wrong?
Yes. You need to assure that the URL you link to contains nothing but an image; in most cases it will hold an extension such as ".png" or ".jpg" or even ".gif" but in rare cases it will be nothing but a string of characters (use Preview to see if it worked). For instance, I can go onto Google images and right click an image to get its URL and paste that into the IMG tags like so: