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How to Post Pictures!

16 years ago

For those new to the site and haven't tried doing this before.

I have only used Photobucket, so if someone uses another photo hosting site, please add to the post.

Upload your photos from your computer hard drive to a photo hosting site like Photobucket. It is a FREE site. They do offer upgrades for $$'s but what they give for free is adequate, at least for me.

Once you have your photos uploaded to the photo hosting site have 2 windows open on your computer. One open to this forum and the second one open to the photo hosting site you've selected.

Prepare your post/message and then COPY the "HTML" code for the picture you wish to post. Important: Be sure to copy the entire HTML code. Paste it into your message where you want your photo to show. The HTML code will show in your post. The photo will not show until you do a preview.

Click on the PREVIEW button to be sure your photo is showing and then click SUBMIT.

I work on a PC versus and MAC so not sure if the process would change using a MAC.

If you want to test your post before actually posting on the forum, go to Test forum. Link is below.

Hope this helps.

Julia

Here is a link that might be useful: Test forum

Comments (5)

  • 16 years ago

    Just to add to what Julia said:

    If you don't want your picture to be too large you can add some text to the HTML code after you have inserted it in your message to make your photo smaller.
    Somewhere in the code after the last jpg you can insert width="300" so the code might look like
    /May08064.jpg" width="300" border="0"

    You can change the 300 to 400 or whatever. Here are some examples
    Cri Du Couer at width="300"

    {{gwi:648990}}

    and at width="400"

    {{gwi:648990}}

    The HTML code is the 3rd one under your photos in photobucket. It pops up when you run your cursor over the photograph.

    If you have inserted the photo correctly it will show when you preview your message before posting as Julia says. Someone helped me with this and I printed it out and taped it to my computer!

    Good Luck

    Debbie

  • 16 years ago

    Someone needs to put this in the FAQ!
    Kathy

  • 16 years ago

    Adding to what has already been said...

    I almost went the PhotoBucket route and even thought about Flickr... but with both of those you have limited quantities of uploads etc., unless you choose to pay for the extras

    So I just use my FaceBook photo albums, with the security settings for just those albums set to be viewable by everyone. To the best of my knowledge you can have max 200 pics per album and close to unlimited individual albums.

    When pics get uploaded they are resized to a decent size regardless of the orginal size(unless they are already small pics to start with).

    Heres the blank HTML for posting pics:

    img src="your pic url"

    example: img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs642.snc4/60202_431529768493_542183493_5244512_1358265_n.jpg"; (this is without the necessary at the end)

    and this is with

    {{gwi:954021}}

    How do you get the image url if you do decide to use your FaceBook photo albums to host the pics you post here ?

    In Chrome go to the photo you want to post here, right click on it and choose the option to copy image url, and then past the image url in between the quotation marks

    In IE7 and up, go to the pic you want to post here, right click on it, from the pull down menu click on Properties, from that pop-up window you'll see the the Address:(URL), high lite it(all of the url), copy it, and then paste it in between the set of quotation marks.

    Then you copy the complete HTML and paste it into the message/response that you are posting.

    Photobucket and Flickr both can do all of that for you and all you have to do is copy and paste the HTML code into your message, but if you choose not to use either of them, there are options.

    ~Donald~

  • 16 years ago

    Here is another link about HTML codes that I bookmarked for when I want to insert more than 1 link into a message. This is posted here on GW.

    "HTML Code "

    Julia

  • 16 years ago

    Hi Julia - thank you so much for the instructions for
    posting pictures from Photobucket.

    See above post-- I did it with help from DH

    Kay/phal

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