frograil

Are we missing a fundamental point here? If you go back and look at the posted photos, 99% of them show a common theme -- those folks are enjoying themselves! They're tromping around in the woods, over rocks, at the shore, etc, etc, and they're glad to share the images with the world. From an academic point of view, the pix may be meaningless, but from a people-oriented point of view, they are out having fun learning about geology.

Please see #3 and #6. I've figured it out. The problem for newbies to HTML is that they don't know any coding. The problem for people like me is the opposite, as I know coding but am used to doing it either in a raw text document or a tagwriter like Dreamweaver. The geoCache system is really neither, at least in presentation. What it is in actuality is a text document presented within a non-text format (ie, all the boxes, headings, etc.). Once I figured that out, it was easy. Just add your tags to the displayed text and save. Thanks to WKMcCall. Thank you all for your posts.

I want to echo the subject of this thread. Have just published my first geocache (it's an earthcache, with a good deal of information included), and all I see on the listing is a great, ugly blob of text. I know HTML, and I've tried to directly edit the source (view - source), copy and paste to the source, copy and paste to the displayed text, and GOK what else. Yes, the HTML option box is checked. Other than directly typing text into the existing text blob, I can make no changes to it. Obviously, just tying in more text just makes the blob bigger. The FAQ for putting HTML into the write-up merely appears to be a very elementary discussion of some tags -- there doesn't appear to be any discussion of what the mechanism itself is.