Hi Batema,
to IceInSpace!
When drift aligning for azimuth, I find a star slightly east of the meridian so that it gives me time to do the adjustments without the mount wanting to swing over to the West part of the sky.
For photo-uploading and attaching, you need to resize it to web-sized.. so, resize it to something like 800px wide and save it as a jpeg. It needs to be under 200kb and then you can use the "Manage Attachments" link and upload it from there.