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I need help posting pictures please

19 years ago

I want to post a few pictures of my Christmas(Thansgiving?)Cactus now that it has formed buds. I don't understand how to post the pictures here though. I need some assistance please. I'm not very tech savy so I will need you to explain it to me in the simplest terms(without talking down to me of course lol).

Also I brought the cactus indoors last night due to a freeze warning. The temps will be in the low 40's for the next few nights,no freeze/frost. Is it safe to put the plant back outdoors or is it best to leave it inside now that it's in?

Thanks so much.

Grice

Comments (13)

  • 19 years ago

    I avoided GW for a long time because I couldn't figure out how to post a picture. I am absolutely not a techie so this is a very simple way to post pics. There may be another method but this works for me. First, you must go to www.photobucket.com and open an account. This is free. Second, upload your photo to your Photobucket account (very easy). Third, once you have uploaded photo, copy the html tag found conveniently below the picture and paste it into your GardenWeb message.

    {{gwi:108374}}

    If there is another way, I'd love to learn.

  • 19 years ago

    "Webshots" is another online album you can post pictures from.

    {{gwi:108376}}

    Billy Rae

  • 19 years ago

    You can also post phots in the gallery here.
    Go back to the list of messages on this forum, look up and to the right, and you will see GALLERY in blue/ purple.
    Click that.
    New message.
    Write your title and description,
    click preview
    on the next page scroll down and look for the word browse.
    Click BROWSE
    It will link to your computer picture folder.
    Choose your photo (you will have had to compress it or resize it beforehand to take it down to 63kb (I think)
    Click ADD or send
    Wait while it does it- may take a while.
    Once the photo is there, you can tell peoepl here to go and have a look.
    (good luck)

  • 19 years ago

    testing, testing, one, two, three. . . .

  • 19 years ago

    Have you managed yet Grice?

    Here is a link that might be useful: my photo in the Gesneriad gallery

  • 19 years ago

    Damp I'm just getting around to checking back in here on the GW site. I got a bit sidetracked. I think I'll try your suggestion as it is somethig I'm famliar with already. I thank you,Greattigerdane,& Fozebear for the photos. Fozbear that sort of resembles a pet Ferret I had as a teen.Thanks to you too Mr.Sub for the test lol.
    Grice

  • 19 years ago

    Okay I set up an account at Photbucket. I also posted a picture of some of the buds here in the gallery. How do I post more than one photo in a single message? Thanks.
    Grice

    Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:108373}}

  • 19 years ago

    OK. Just worked it out.
    Open your photo in photobucket.
    Copy the URL from address line and paste it here.

    Then in front of it add this, but change the ( to

    (IMG src="your url")

    so it will look like this:
    {{gwi:108373}}

  • 19 years ago

    Actually I was trying to post a picture with the test; it just didn't work. I've never understood how to post pictures before either.

    Testing, testing, again --

    {{gwi:108372}}

  • 19 years ago

    Well, I suppose a red x is progress of a sort. Back to the old drawing board. . . .

  • 19 years ago

    Hi Grice, it's nice to see your around. I know you don't recognize this name but you know me as naturelover_MTL. I've changed my name to match my website...

    Anyhow, the previous instructions were right on but I'll also add my two cents worth...

    For photos to show directly on the page, write out your line like this:

    The above is an example to help you understand how it works, but it needs a tiny modification to make it happen. When you write it out, you must remove the space after the

    I only added them because I don't want to activate the code. If I remove the spaces, the browser will take it as an instruction to go ahead and display a photo..

    So remove the spaces when you're ready to try it out.

    -----

    For example, for your photo to be displayed directly on this page, the html line would have to be written like this:

    The http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd227/dandersongrice/10_29_20071_57PM_0001.jpg is the url (web address/location) of your photo. The rest of the wording tells the browser what to do/display on this page.

    When I remove the spaces after the , the code is activated and the photo should display below:

    {{gwi:108373}}

    Try it out!

  • 19 years ago

    In Photobucket, don't open your photo fully. In the album, click on the words "HTML tag" beneath the photo and beside the actual link. It will pop up a little message "Copied". Then, right here in the body of the message after typing any message or part of a message, press Control and "v" which will paste the address link in. You can then type more message below, paste in any other number of links and away you go.

    Schlumbergera Thor Kiri from last year. (Just budding now)
    {{gwi:108379}}

    Schlumbergera white (unknown name)
    {{gwi:108381}}

  • 19 years ago

    Hi Grice, it's nice to see your around. I know you don't recognize this name but you know me as naturelover_MTL. I've changed my name to match my website...

    Anyhow, the previous instructions were right on but I'll also add my two cents worth...

    For photos to show directly on the page, write out your line like this:

    The above is an example to help you understand how it works, but it needs a tiny modification to make it happen. When you write it out, you must remove the space after the

    I only added them because I don't want to activate the code. If I remove the spaces, the browser will take it as an instruction to go ahead and display a photo..

    So remove the spaces when you're ready to try it out.

    -----

    For example, for your photo to be displayed directly on this page, the html line would have to be written like this:

    The http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd227/dandersongrice/10_29_20071_57PM_0001.jpg is the url (web address/location) of your photo. The rest of the wording tells the browser what to do/display on this page.

    When I remove the spaces after the , the code is activated and the photo should display below:

    {{gwi:108373}}

    Try it out!