poor computer skills

[wade w]

I wanted to put some pics up in the forum, but I cant figure out how to do it.

[Slowleen]

host them on a site like photobucket.com

take the URL of that picture and put it b/w [img] [/img]

it will look like this...

[img] http://www.photobucket.com/someone/lightning.jpg [/img]

just make sure there are no spaces b/w everything

[wade w]

Thanks Ill try it tonight

[Slowleen]

actually, when you load pics into photobucket....when your viewing the thumbnails for your pics...it creates that code for you to copy and paste

[wade w]

Man im lost. I have no ideal what im doing. Thanks for trying to help.

[Slowleen]

create and photobucket account, and upload some pics to your created album...then we'll go from there...I will "computer un-stupid you" if it kills me lol

[chrisheltra]

Try this I didnt read it all but this is probably you solution.




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Originally Posted by gpro71bird
Great thread. Wish I could post pic's but I'm still a rookie and don't know how or where to go to practice. I've read the the thread on this topic, but have'nt had any luck!



A quick crash course:

You have to find some place that will host the pics for you and allow you to hot link them to other sites. The Corral.net has a gallery feature, but it won't let you link pictures from the gallery to other web sites. So first you need to host them somewhere. www.snapfish.com, www.theimagehosting.com, or any other site that allows you to post pics and link them.
Now once the pic is hosted, right click on the picture, go to properties and click that. You'll get a box that gives you the basic details of the image. In that box is a line that looks like this:

Address: http://blablabla.com/forums/joesmoespics/01129.jpg
(URL)

Obviously the address is going to be different for every pic. Now highlight that entire address. Just put your mouse cursor on it and hold down the left mouse button while you drag across it. You have to get the entire address and sometimes you don't get the whole thing on the screen at once, so make sure you get the whole thing. After the address is highlighted, right click it and hit "Copy".
Now come back to SVTP.com and where you want to post the picture, do the following:

step one: write this----> [img]
step two: right after [img], with no spaces, right click and hit "Paste"
step three: you now have something that looks like this:
[img]http://blablabla.com/forums/joesmoespics/01129.jpg
go to the end of that line and without a space put [/img] at the end.
So now it looks like this:

[img]http://blablabla.com/forums/joesmoespics/01129.jpg[/img}

Add whatever text you want and wala, you have pics on the boards.
I had to make the last bracket in the final demonstration a } because it would have posted a red X if I didn't. If you want the pic to work, that needs to be a "]" not a "}"

[wade w]

THANKS A LOT. I finally got it. could have never done it with out your help.both of you. It didnt turn out the way I wanted but it looks ok.