Guide on how to post a picture

[Bodo]

I often read queries about posting pictures. I thought, I'd compile some of the procedures to get a picture in a post.

• 1.) The picture must be stored on a webserver (not on your harddrive)
  
  To get your own picture on a webserver, use an internet picture service, such as www.fotango.com , or your own webspace which some ISP provide with their service (mostly long term contracts). See your ISP's guide on how to upload them to your webspace.



• 2.) You need to know the address of your image.
  
  This is simple: if you see a picture in your internet browser, move the mouse cursor over the picture an press the right mouse button. A menue appears:
  
  Mozilla and Netscape: #Copy Image Location
  
  Internet Explorer: #Image Properties
  
  You'll see the address in that appearing window: select it, and copy it with the right mouse button #Copy
  


• 3.) Now the address is stored in your clipboard. Go to your Gassing Station Post Reply in put field, and #RH mouse button #Paste the address.



• 4.) Now you have to put the [pic] code around the address to identify the address as an image's address and not as a link, which is default for http://www.* strings {see: www}
  
  It should look exactly like this:
  
  
  [pic]http://www.server.co.uk/folder/imagename.jpg[/pic]
  

done.

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jessica said: Brilliant got me car on me profile(GO LOOK EVERYONE) isn't he gorgeous..................

Can't see it; maybe it's one of the pictures, fotango doesn't allow to link?

[Bodo]

It looks like you didn't use the Get a link to this picture feature from fotango?

In another thread Iguana said:

I go to my fotango album choose a pic & click it, then click 'get a link to this picture'. Then left mouse click & drag on the http://www etc etc then it turns blue then right mouse click & chose copy.

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Quote my post to see how it's done

[Bodo]

I'd like to point out that -in the course of a database redesign probably- the original post of this topic, giving the instructions on how to post a picture, has disappeared.

Any chance of a fix?