Wildlife, flora and fauna

Photos of flowers/plants and animals but, please, NO PETS! Nothing at all against them but there are other groups for them!! :o)

Less lonely now! Thanks Sonja. Do you want to add any photos here? Did I nor post any pics? Maybe I haven't yet worked out how, yet! Will investigate!

Thanks! Well, the uploading works, no problem... just promotion seems a bit of a problem, no discrete and easy way to invite special fitting shots by people not contacts to any groups, no matter if the own or that of friends, just a mail-way to invite your contacts to join in general. And all our newer groups look alike, somehow that with the icon does not work to well. My orchid group is exactly like yours, standard pic with already 4 not very distinct little stickmen busts as ikon but only 2 two real members.

My group got no additional description header at all. It lets not add me one any more than an icon, claims I must fill in something I do not kow, some name shortcut before it saves the edited group....
So you got that description with the typo automatically generated the way we get our personal "about" page? Really fascinating.

Thank you Gabriel. I thought I had replied in March, but maybe not.
You are very welcome. Doesn't matter how many or how few photos you want to post!
By the way I would like to put an identifying photo here; if I knew how to do it I would! Do you know?
Best wishes,
Andy

Hi Gabriel.
Many thanks.
I replied to your message directly by email, not realising that it was posted here. Please tell me if you don't get it. I did see that the email address was from 23.hq and as I really don't have a clue how these things go, made me realise belatedly that you possibly hadn't intended to send me a private email!
I will post my reply here if you think it is OK to do so (I have kept a copy) but I didn't intend it for general publication. Please let me know!!
Many thanks and best wishes,
Andy

So where did my reply to your reply go! OK. I will re-post here!

Andy,

go to your group front page, right column.... just below "ïnvite" which you can see also on most groups of others, you should be able to read "change group settings" if that is your group, nothing about being an admin, just that little unemphased litte line. Klick that and you are in the menue.

First, you need to make up a short name, that is mandatory or changes won't take place. I had no end of trouble with that part myself until Fizgig helped me to understand. "Wildlife will probaply be taken as there is already an old group with no traffic called this. So think of something else that sort of fits, like "WFF"or "FloraFauna" and type it in.

Next you need to upload your icon. The icon should be prepared and the apropriate square measurements on your harddrive. Otherwise this works just like the standard uploader, all easy.

Finally press "Save basic settings" below and do your captcha extra carefully as not to have to repeat the whole thing. ;o)

That should be it.

Look for a pic of yours that looks especially nice and recognizable in the smal square icon preview, or would do so if the square is moved of-center or a closer crop. Crop it exactly square to exactly the outlines you prefer. Nearly any photo-software can do an automated square for cropping, even the free "Paint" that comes with the windows.

Anyway it should be cropped to a square and safed somewhere on your harddrive where you find it easyly. I am not sure if on this site you even need to upload it pre-shrunk to the smal size of 50x50 pixel. Fizgig told me to do so and I had indeed one shrunk down before he did say so, although my big problem seemed to come from that mysterious short name field that must be filled, so I used my tiny pic also when it worked. It did never show up in the stream, just went straight to being the icon after uploading.