(I went and installed a graphics pack, so I can show without teaching you all ASCIIDWARF)
So this is a test post to see if images work, and to show you the general layout.
This is the valley outside the fort. The hill on the right has a small room that I've dug up into, which will be turned into fortifications for archers. In the middle you can see Anita, our mechanic, hard at work in one of the workshops I built outside. She's making mechanisms to build traps with. The workshops will be inside soon, or bad things will eat dwarves. The entrance is that narrow corridor that goes off to the left.
This is the inside of the fort. The entrance tunnel is above this, and goes along a way until it gets to some stairs down. Those are marked on the map. The rest is just a bunch of rooms at the moment, trying to get dwarfs set up inside before anything fierce comes along (Ludwig is our only dwarf with even a foggy clue about fighting, and he's no match for anything big). Talking of Lud that's him in the bottom right, mining a gold seam. He's been ordered to make a path over to some farmland.