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how do I add a photo (not an avatar)
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how do I add a photo (not an avatar)
how do I add a photo to a post for members to see.
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Urostomy & Colostomy.Short bowel
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majormom2u
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Hi there!
All you need to do is highlight the link for the photo... then come to your post, click on the "Img" icon... paste the link right after that and click on the "Img " again... that's it!....
One example:
that is how should look like in your message body area... then, when may "preview" to check it out and/or submit for all of us to enjoy!!!
Good luck!!!
Sandy
All you need to do is highlight the link for the photo... then come to your post, click on the "Img" icon... paste the link right after that and click on the "Img " again... that's it!....
One example:
that is how should look like in your message body area... then, when may "preview" to check it out and/or submit for all of us to enjoy!!!
Good luck!!!
Sandy
Uhh.. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
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Bob Webtech
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This question comes up a lot, so I'll add some more information. The first point to understand (implicit in Sandy's post above but not stated explicitly): Before you can add a picture to your posting, the picture must already be available on the Internet. For this purpose, you can start by posting your photo on a (free) "photo sharing" site such as photobucket.com or flickr.com or maybe in web space provided by your ISP or in some other website you have access to.
Once the picture is available on the Internet, and you know its URL, you can include it in a posting by inserting a snippet of code as described by Sandy above. This "hot links" the picture so it looks like part of your posting even though, technically, it still resides on the website where you posted it (e.g., photo sharing site), and it doesn't use any storage or 'bandwidth' from our site. For more information on this process, particularly regarding displayed size of pictures, see Linda's post at viewtopic.php?p=77069#p77069
A couple of warnings about this process:
Once the picture is available on the Internet, and you know its URL, you can include it in a posting by inserting a snippet of code as described by Sandy above. This "hot links" the picture so it looks like part of your posting even though, technically, it still resides on the website where you posted it (e.g., photo sharing site), and it doesn't use any storage or 'bandwidth' from our site. For more information on this process, particularly regarding displayed size of pictures, see Linda's post at viewtopic.php?p=77069#p77069
A couple of warnings about this process:
- The process depends on the [img] tag which is part of the board's BBCode system. Therefore, BBCode needs to be enabled in your posting. The easiest way to ensure this is by setting "Always allow BBCode" to "Yes" in your board profile. There's also a checkbox for enabling or disabling BBCode in the windows for posting individual messages.
- Not all photo sharing sites are usable for this purpose. For example, one of our users tried using the "Kodak Gallery" site but found that it didn't work because that site doesn't allow its pictures to be "hot linked" from other sites such as ours.
Bob Baumel, UOAA discussion board administrator