help with pictures?

[frisky-leo]

I was thinking about trying to post some pics, but i can't seem to make it work. I thought I knew enough, but I guess I don't. lol.
Can anyone help me?

 

[Dawg]

I was thinking about trying to post some pics, but i can't seem to make it work. I thought I knew enough, but I guess I don't. lol.
Can anyone help me?

I'll help if I can... what seems to be the problem?

 

[frisky-leo]

I'll help if I can... what seems to be the problem?

I'm not 100% sure of how exactly to put a pic up. I thought that you click the image button (little photo of mountains... lol) but then I am not sure what to type in the box... of if I am doing this all wrong...

 

[Dawg]

I'm not 100% sure of how exactly to put a pic up. I thought that you click the image button (little photo of mountains... lol) but then I am not sure what to type in the box... of if I am doing this all wrong...

Well, it depends on which way you want to display the images in your thread.

If you want to share your pics in the message first you have to store them on an online storage site like www.imageshack.us, or www.photobucket.com, etc... that's when you use the mountain photo to insert the link to your images...

the other way to share your pics is directly from your computer. There is a "Manage Attachment" button at the bottom of the message box. Click on it to browse your computer for the image you want when you find it then upload it to the message. There is a size limit you have to adhere to, so if that becomes a problem for you let me know there are waying to resize your images.

Dawg

 

[frisky-leo]

hmm...

 

[frisky-leo]

Yay. I think I've got it. Thanks
Frisky
PS
I do know photo editing, so you don't have to worry about me there. lol.

 

[Dawg]

Yay. I think I've got it. Thanks
Frisky
PS
I do know photo editing, so you don't have to worry about me there. lol.

Yep, looks like you got it alright... I'm looking forward to seeing more!

 

[zingbats]

In some of the threads, the images don't show up, although the users are cleary indicating that a picture should be there. Is this because their image is dead? (IE: Hosted on a temporary site?)

EDIT: Although the HTML says there's no image that should be loading

 

[Weird Harold]

In some of the threads, the images don't show up, although the users are cleary indicating that a picture should be there. Is this because their image is dead? (IE: Hosted on a temporary site?)

EDIT: Although the HTML says there's no image that should be loading

Using the IMG tags to hotlink pictures is dependent on the picture being accessible to the forum software.

Often a picture will be available when first posted, but the hosting site triggers hotlink blocking blocking because of too many hits, is down for some reason, or is just a slow site that can't deliver the picture within the forum software's time-out limit.

Other times, the person trying to link the picture tries to link an image from their hard-drive, tries to link an entire HTML page, or tries to link a picture from a site that requires a password to access.

The older a post is, the more likely it is that a hotlinked picture will be unavailable -- hosting sites go out of business, change their hotlinking policy, or have server problems when the picture is requested.

If you want to be sure an image is available for viewing, using the attachment function is much mre reliable than hotlinking with the IMG tags.

 

[zingbats]

I see your point, but I was asking more of the images that other people have posted. Hosting an image hosting website myself; I appreciate that hotlinking can lead to problems with forums viewing images etc.

However, when browsing through some threads, some users claim to have posted images, but the image is not displayed. Surely if the problem was a local one, OR a remote image hosting one; at the least the appropriate IMG HTML tag would be found in the HTML generated by the page?

I assume by the fact that I cant see any image code that the forum software is neglecting it? Is this what you meant by:

"can't deliver the picture within the forum software's time-out limit."?

IE: The software sees that the image is unavailable and therefore doesn't generate the embedded HTML?

 

[frisky-leo]

In some of the threads, the images don't show up, although the users are cleary indicating that a picture should be there. Is this because their image is dead? (IE: Hosted on a temporary site?)

EDIT: Although the HTML says there's no image that should be loading

It could also be that someone just went back and deleted the image.

 

[zingbats]

AH yes you have a point. Although I can't see any editing signs on most of the posts.


Oh well. Thanks, guys.

 

[Weird Harold]

However, when browsing through some threads, some users claim to have posted images, but the image is not displayed. Surely if the problem was a local one, OR a remote image hosting one; at the least the appropriate IMG HTML tag would be found in the HTML generated by the page?

It sounds like you're encountering attachments that have been removed for some reason without editing in an explanation. With this version of vBulletin, attachments can be removed without tracking down the posts they're attached to.

Some people do remove their pictures for various reasons and when they do it through the UserCP Edit attachments function, it would produce the symptoms you're seeing.

 

[zingbats]

Ah right...

** attaching image to see if can be edited out without the CP **

Hmm it appears it can be edited out this way.

I wonder why people do it the long way?

 

[Weird Harold]

I wonder why people do it the long way?

Probably because they don't know there is a shorter way.

The editattachments link inthe userCP is the bottom link in the list and at the screen resolution I use I have to scroll down to see it. Idon't hink most people bother to scroll that page down because themost used functions dont require it.

 

[Quoll]

If you click on the reply/quote button on the posts with the missing/not loading images you should be able to read the link that was used for the image. ( If it hasn't been edited out.)