picture help

[DirtyDan]

hi all

 i am trying to post pictures in my posts/replys and am not having any luck. member RJ was able to get one of my photobucket images up on his post but i am not having any luck yet. on the help board it shows attach under additional options, yet when i start a post it does not appear. now RJ could do it with my pictures {thanks RJ} so it can be done

could someone help out a tech troubled new member

STEP by STEP for the dummy  

thanks all

ps i made my state map but no joy on making it show up

[RonW]

.... on the help board it shows attach under additional options, yet when i start a post it does not appear.

You can post pics directly from the 'editor page' by clicking on the 'Insert Photo' button (circled in the graphic directly below). *The following is for posting pics within a post, not in your signature.*




.... the following pair of html tags will then appear in the text box.




Insert the 'url' of the photo that you want displayed between the html openning tag and the html closing tag as shown. Then press the 'Preview' button.




By chance, if you don't know what an 'url' is. A url is the specific address assigned to a specific photo (or page) published on the Web. The photo must be available 24/7 for the url to work. Photobucket and other photo hosting websites provide this service. Your home computer would have to be configured for 24/7 downloading to fulfill outside requests and even if this was an easy feat your personal files would be vulnerable to security and malicious threats. In the same process, you'd easily exceed your Internet provider's monthly allotment of bandwidth and so forth.

There are various ways of finding the url of a specific photo. The following is a fool proof method ....




*The photos that you uploaded to Photobucket are on the large size.* The largeness would make your post a yard long and involve an excessive amount of scrolling. If you like, place your mouse's arrow on a photo (no clicking), and the menu shown at the top edge of the photo below should then appear. Click on the 'Edit' option (circled). I don't use Photobucket, but I believe this should take you to a resize department. Resize your photo somewhere between 500px to 640px in width. If prompted to 'save as' the resized photo (don't use 'save') just addend a suffix to the name of the original photo. For example, if the name of the original photo was P0000007 .... with suffix would be P0000007B. This is just so Photobucket recognizes the resized photo apart from the original, a 1-A and 1-B kinda thing. Otherwise the original photo might get erased.