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The Member Home Pages feature for premium members is a largely untapped resource for most people, and maybe this tutorial will also help premium members to understand that which they are not taking advantage of.  (And a very unique feature unavailable at other lottery web sites.)

URLs, Web Servers, and Inserting Images

First things first, a URL (stands for "Uniform Resource Locater", if you're interested) is the web address of what you're looking for.  Every piece of data that comes off the Internet — including web pages, the images within those web pages, music, video — has a URL that identifies where it is stored and what the name of the file is.

The word "resource" is important, because it is a generic way to refer to any type of data on the Internet (file, image, music, etc.).  So when you see the word "resource", understand that it means "a file of some type on the Internet."

Your PC has a sort of URL for organizing stuff too.  For example, you may store a document called "mailinglist.doc" on your hard drive in the "c:\My Documents\" folder.  Therefore the complete "URL" to that file would be "C:\My Documents\mailinglist.doc".  Notice how the URL has three parts to it:  the hard drive it's located on (green), the folder where the file is stored (red), and file name (blue).

The Internet works basically the same way,....

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