Posting Pictures

[Jennie@ifish]

The only way to post a picture on the board here is to have it already present on the web somewhere, and then call it by its direct path. i.e. http://www.ifish.net/rtfishing.html.... as an example.. See, it has my web address first, and then a / and then the filename. Now, that is an .html.. that means it is a web document. Pictures will have an extension of .jpg, or .gif usually.
All of you who have internet access probably have a free web page space and you need to learn how to upload the pictures to your directory and then call them here.
If you are seriously interested in learning how, I will help by elaborating on this.
It isn't that hard, really!

Jen

Yes!! Tell us the whole procedural details when you get a chance. The OCCASSIONAL augmention for posts will be very enhancing. As long as members don't get carried away wanting to post a glob of their best days they ever had, which will increase download time for BB access! And possibly turn some people off? What do you think members? - RT

[Sandybar]

Sounds like we could have alot of fun. I like pictures of those globs like RT said. Should also tell all, How, When, and Where!!
Fill us on the details Jen,lets start snapping those globs!

[Jennie@ifish]

First, all of you, find out what is available to you through your internet provider. I think AOL gives each person a small amount of space for a web page. Is this right?
Pacifier makes it all simple and wyswyg (What you see is what you get) Other providers, such as harborside make it easy also.
I use a downloadable program called WSFTP. You can get it at Tucows or wherever. It is a file transfer protocol program that is fairly easy to understand.
You need to know your local address of your web space, your user name and password, and your host IP number. This is what you need to ask your provider for.
After that, you just take the pics, from digital cam or have regular film developed on disk, or scan them.... Save them in a compressed form.... such as jpg or gif. I also reduce the color pallette to 8 bit to make them even smaller....and no more than 72 dpi (Dots per inch) Try to make your pictures less than 50 K I prefer around 15k.
Anyway, then you pop them up to your web space through one of the file transfer programs.
There are several freebie web space places, such as ZOOM, geocities, on and on.... They let you have free space and they pop up free advertising banners in trade.

OK.. here comes the easy coding format.

To display an image on this board, you use UBB code. You place the location of the image between two tags.

[img][/img]

[img] means to begin the address of the image.

[/img] means the end of the address of the image

so here is an example: I am going to mispell http to httl so it doesn't disply a broken image.. hope it works.

[img]httl://yourmainurl.com/yourdirectory/yourimage.gif(Or.jpg)[/img]

Go to the faq and find examples of UBB code and scroll down to images for more info on this topic.

Sooo go to your internet provider and find out what you have available. K?

Jen

[Jennie@ifish]

OH! And remember..... the biggest problem people have is not calling things exactly or case sensitive. Like they have an image called steelhead.jpg and then they call it here on the board as SteelHead.JPG. It will show up as a broken image. finicky web!

Jen