Help me!

[TheEarl]

I am actually incompetent. Why can I not get a picture that is up on the internet to display in either a post or a signature.

Someone please, put me out of my misery and explain it in words of one syllable.

The Earl

 

[minsue]

In a post, surround the url with tags. In a signature, use <IMG SRC="url here"> (if I recall correctly)

 

[TheEarl]

Just worked it out as you posted Min. Thank you.

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The Earl

 

[matriarch]

I am actually incompetent. Why can I not get a picture that is up on the internet to display in either a post or a signature.

Someone please, put me out of my misery and explain it in words of one syllable.

The Earl

Copy the link of the picture, then in your post, click on the 'img' button above, paste the link into the box that appears, and hit ok.

That should do it.

 

[minsue]

Just worked it out as you posted Min. Thank you.

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The Earl

For future reference - http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html

Explained in terms even I can understand

 

[Weird Harold]

I am actually incompetent. Why can I not get a picture that is up on the internet to display in either a post or a signature.

Step one is always to find an image that can be "hot-linked."

Step two is to find the URL of the image itself -- especially for the vB code IMG tags. Neither Syntax will work with the URL of a page that displays an image -- i.e. neither will display an image if the URL ends in .HTML

Step three is to ensure that the image is available to Lit's forum without requiring a password or login to view.

The syntax for hotlinking an image is fairly straight forward, avoiding the dreaded Red-X is more challenging -- especially since the Rd-x doesn't always show up to the person who posted the image because the image is in their temporary internet files.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Harold is right, fighting the sexy red X is hard when hotlinking, sometimes you get them....

http://img2.imagevenue.com/loc200/6c6_Untitled_133.jpg

and then you might get them some more.......

http://img2.imagevenue.com/loc194/f50_Untitled_134.jpg

and then you might be ready to give up and settle for a pic you really didn't want to avoid the red X .............

http://img1.imagevenue.com/loc127/370_Untitled_135.jpg

but you can always host and post, there are lots of free image hosting services, so you download your image, host it on a free site, and post........

http://www.imagevenue.com/loc239/407_Untitled_12hyttt.jpg

the problem with free hosting services is you get what you pay for, and they may go belly up, and your image goes red X. But they work for short term fun stuffs.

 

[Weird Harold]

Harold is right, ...

Of course I'm right. I have a reputation to maintian

You, OTOH, are just a show-off. (although a show-off with god taste in images.)

 

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