Up loading photos

Post by **iandromiskin** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:58 am

Hi,

How do I go about uploading a photo to illustrate a question ? What size should they be too.

Ian.

Post by **Rob_Jennings** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:34 am

rather annoyingly you cant......

but you can link to an external site and include that in you message

best bet is to sign up for a photobucket account which is free, load the images there and you can then use the [ img ] [ /img ] tags in a message to include it

eg

[ img ] address in the web here [ /img ]

remove all the spaces in the above and insrt your image location and that should work, you can always test it with the preview button

size? well keep it fairly small and defiantly don't exceed average screen size thats really annoying! resize them to perhaps width of 200-400 depending on how much detail they contain?

hope that helps

Post by **JimK** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:43 am

Rob_Jennings wrote:rather annoyingly you cant......

I think it's good that we can't. Just think of the extra bandwidth and storage the server would need if everybody could load it with photos.

Displaying photos by linking to them is perfectly fine, and if I want to read a thread without the pictures (I read it for the articles not the pictures

) I can block anything not coming from the same server as the board.

I already use flashblock to kill those horrible animated banners.

Post by **heathy12** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:13 am

What I use sometimes which not a lot of other people do is to hide the link of a picture or web address by using the following code.

[ URL =WEB ADDRESS HERE ] DESCRIPTION OF YOUR LINK HERE! [ /URL ]

So Should come up some thin like this using the above description and a random web address!

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR LINK HERE!

Not so random link! My 2 door saloon on Minor Mania!

Kinda cool linky thing to do IMO!

Ad

Post by **JimK** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:19 am

I do that when I can be bothered

I wish standard html would work, but using <a href...> tags doesn't seem to work. Only that weird bbcode seems to work.

And yes, I have html switched on in my profile.

Post by **alex_holden** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:37 pm

Same here. I've used <A HREF= or <IMG SRC= on here loads of times by mistake, then I get confused and start using [img and [url on my blog...