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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: bosco0633 on November 08, 2005, 08:04:22 pm

Title: question on posting
Post by: bosco0633 on November 08, 2005, 08:04:22 pm
These pics that you all post from time to time, how do you do it.  I have found some good stuff on the net and would like to share it but I dont know how.

Do I have to save it to my image shack and then link and post or can i just link it from the page it is on????
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: Brookenstein on November 08, 2005, 08:14:50 pm
I just copy the tag that starts with img from photobucket or tinypic and it works...  not sure if that helps or not.  Occasionally I have found pics on other sites and have been able to direct link and other times not, and I end up saving to my hard drive then uploading to one of the other places and then it works..

I always preview first to see if it works.
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: wmccall on November 08, 2005, 10:35:37 pm
You can link it from the page its on, a few websites prevent that though.  
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on November 08, 2005, 10:55:45 pm
Careful! Linking to a picture from another web may very well be illegal. The picture may be, or probably IS copyrighted by either the web site it's on, or by the owner. Linking to a picture on another web site can also be considered bandwidth theft.
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: Spatech_tuo on November 08, 2005, 11:08:19 pm
Quote
Careful! Linking to a picture from another web may very well be illegal. The picture may be, or probably IS copyrighted by either the web site it's on, or by the owner. Linking to a picture on another web site can also be considered bandwidth theft.


My "Superman" (errr, "SpatechMan") logo pic under my name is a link from another site. Don't turn me in!
To link a pic from another site (which I don't necessrily condone) put your cursor over the picture, right click, choose properties, copy the address you see, paste it here using the URL function and you're all set.
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on November 09, 2005, 02:09:58 am
tsk tsk tsk....... we'll talk next week, I'm sure

#1348, just across the aisle from Coleman.
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: NE-Phil on November 09, 2005, 08:58:55 am
bosco0633,
I'm not sure if any of the previous replies answer your specific question. Yes, it's important to not use copyrighted material. That being said, posting pictures works like this: begin by typing two brackets [ ] with the word IMG in between them (no spaces). Then its followed by the link to the picture: http://www.mydomain.com/whatsit.jpg. Then its immediately followed by two brackets [ ] with the phrase /IMG in between the brackets (no spaces).

Below is the formatting instructions needed to place a picture already on the web into a post of your own (in order for this to appear in my post, I had to add a space after both left brackets ([ ), otherwise, it would have been recognized as a formatting instruction by this web site)
    [ img]http://phil.dixon.net/images/tuna-phil.jpg[ /img]

Now here is the same sample with all spaces removed (it has to be one, continuous line with no spaces):
(http://phil.dixon.net/images/tuna-phil.jpg)

But if you really want to see how ANY special formatting is done, [size=16]REMEMBER THIS: click the Quote option to the right of the post.[/i][/size][/color] Clicking Quote shows you the special formatting codes used in the posting such as BOLD, Italics, the Smileys: :), ::), [size=18]large font[/size], [size=10]small font[/size], hyperlinks to other sites (http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2865616), etc.  You're not using it to quote their reply, just to see how they made their special formatting.

Again, If you want to know how somebody used special formatting in their post
[size=18]
USE THE QUOTE LINK!!
[/b][/i][/size][/color]
Phil

P. S. Gee, that was fun. Now quote my post to see how I did it.

P.P.S. Thanks to windsurfdog who showed me how to use quote.
Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: Brookenstein on November 09, 2005, 09:47:12 am
Also if you don't want to type the [img stuff yourself, there is an icon above the smileys... it is the one above angry smiley  >:( , that get this, looks like a picture  :D  .  When you click it, you get this: (w/o spaces) [ img ] URL [ /img ] erase URL and copy and paste your addy there.

Title: Re: question on posting
Post by: bulmer4nc on November 09, 2005, 10:52:10 am
This is an older post but a very good summary on how to post pics...

http://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-hottub;action=display;num=1102025564;start=0