To put an image in your post, you need to tell the Lymenet computer what to do - and in this case, it takes 3 parts:

The first part is to tell the computer that it's the start of an image address:
[img]

The second part is the address of the image (for example):
http://www.omsoft.com/danq/smilies/grin.gif

The third, and last, part tells the computer it's the end of an image address:
[/img]

put them all together, and it's:
[IMG]http://www.omsoft.com/danq/smilies/grin.gif[/IMG]

NO spaces allowed in there!

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One thing to remember: when you "put a picture in" your message, all you're really doing is putting in a "link" to that picture. If the website where that picture is stored is not working, your picture will not work. Also, if the picture should change at the website, your picture as seen here will be changed too - even on messages that you did before! That's not likely though.

I'll put a bit more explanation about pictures in here as time goes on.

You can test out your pictures at the topic "This is a good place to test" http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000223.html

Dan

[This message has been edited by danq (edited 24 April 2002).]

Posts: 2420 | From Davis, California | Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged | 

I was thinking a broom with a Buddha.

HELP.

boohoo, what'd I do wrong?

I left click and get nothing. I right click and I get 'show picture'. I click on 'show picture' and nothing happens.

I suspect this isn't such a big deal but I have no idea where to start to deal with this.

PROV2001 the reason you are seeing that "X" in the box is because Barbrann5 was not calling the image from the correct address and the fact that they do not allow hot linking. Any image must be on a server that allows what is called hot linking, meaning it must be allowed to show from that server to another server. Many do not allow this because it uses up too much bandwidth especially for a busy server. One like gif animations would be very busy daily with everyone who visits there to find pictures to use. It is the bandwidth that costs so much for these servers to even be able to run. Hope this helps both of you...

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do you know why?

That '50' toward the end of the address is not "five zero", it's "five oh". The capital "O" looks a lot like a zero!

When I get a pic's address, I don't type it in -- I copy the address, usually by right-clicking on the pic and then selecting "copy image location" (you may have some other wording come up for the same function).
Then I just paste the address into my post.

[This message has been edited by CJ (edited 06 January 2003).]

Take for example CJ's first try, above.
She used the url for the page on which the pic is displayed:
http://www.animationfactory.com/free/flags_us_states/u_s_states_variant_page_india na_fl.html
What was needed to use was this:
http://images.animfactory.com/animations/flags/u_s_states/indiana_fl_md_clr.gif

Notice that the second one ends in ".gif" - that indicates it is the address of a picture.
".jpg" is also a picture, but most of the small cartoony things are gifs.

The way I got that gif's address was to right-click on the image. Then there's a little menu that comes up; for me one choice is "copy image location". That copies what I need; then I paste it into the post between the [img] and [/img].

Like this:
[img]http://images.animfactory.com/animations/flags/u_s_states/indiana_fl_md_clr.gif[/img]

One other correction to CJ's post: there can be no spaces (or carriage returns) between the [img] and the [/img].

Dan

[This message has been edited by Poochini (edited 03 February 2003).]

Sandi

[This message has been edited by badkitti30043 (edited 03 February 2003).]

testing another...

[This message has been edited by badkitti30043 (edited 03 February 2003).]

Sailing away to Rosesisland!!!

My question however is how do you get it to apear bold and even in italics?

Sent

PS the graphics were just to show you I can follow instructrions

Sent

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WHAT???? this is hopeless for computer idiots

[img]comsoft.com/danq/smilies/grin.gif[/img]
Nope that wasn't it. There's something wrong in the address. You got the [IMG][/IMG] right