You can take control of your group's home page photo, even have multiple photos, with just a little bit of HTML coding.
The key is the HTML <img> tag. It will look like this:
<img src="...">
Where the ... is replaced by the URL to your photo. For example:
<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/214488555_732dc4ca81_m.jpg">
Note that the photo must be hosted somewhere on the web, not on your PC and not in your group's Files or Photos sections (because those sections can only be accessed by members of your group). For this example I'm using Flickr because it is a Yahoo company -- you can use the Yahoo account you already have to create and sign in to a free or paid Flickr account.
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sobfarleytest/join">
<img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/i/us/ui/join.gif" border="0"
alt="Click here to join sobfarleytest"><br>Click to join sobfarleytest</a>
</center>
Look for the section that reads 'img src="..." ' In the above eample the ... is the URL to Yahoo's purple join button:
Click to join sobfarleytest
Then replace the ... with the URL to your own image:
Click to join sobfarleytest
Photo by Shalf
In this example, I used Flickr to host the image. That's because Flickr is owned by Yahoo and it is convenient for me to sign in there with the same account I use to sign in to Yahoo. Note too that Flickr's terms of service require that the photo be accompanied by a link back to the photo's page on Flickr. The don't prescribe exactly the form that must take, so I used the "Photo by Shalf" link for that purpose.
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