Placing a photo or picture in posts
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:50 pm
As of today this is how to place photos in your posts. At the TIC170A web site.
1. You must have storage space on the web that is accessible preferably 24/7 to the public. Lots of email and/or Internet providers give this space away with their service. It is where you would store your personal web pages if you have any or could have them.
2. Your photo must be in the .gif format and should be small physical size (about 3x2 works) and 72 dpi. This will make the file size small and manageable.
3. Save your photo to your storage space and figure out what the web address (url) to the file will be. For example my Internet provider Comcast provides my space. The URL to my space and photos is http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bfenster/filename with filename being the photo file I’d like to show.
4. In your message where you want the image click on the image button at the top of the post window then type the URL then click the image button again. The finished line will look like this: (img)http://mywebpages/bfenster/filename(/img) Round brackets have been substituted for square brackets in the sample line so that you can see the code. That’s it.
Here is the catch to photos in you posts.
Since you are keeping the photos and not the TIC170A if at any time you delete or change the name of the photo file or move it to another storage space with a new URL, the link in your post will go nowhere and the photo will no longer appear. Unless of course you remember all you posts with photos and go back and update the URL.
So for the sake of archiving information don’t use photos to show something unique that you also can’t or don’t discribe in print. It would be shame for someone 2 years from know looking for information only to find the
broken link image.
1. You must have storage space on the web that is accessible preferably 24/7 to the public. Lots of email and/or Internet providers give this space away with their service. It is where you would store your personal web pages if you have any or could have them.
2. Your photo must be in the .gif format and should be small physical size (about 3x2 works) and 72 dpi. This will make the file size small and manageable.
3. Save your photo to your storage space and figure out what the web address (url) to the file will be. For example my Internet provider Comcast provides my space. The URL to my space and photos is http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bfenster/filename with filename being the photo file I’d like to show.
4. In your message where you want the image click on the image button at the top of the post window then type the URL then click the image button again. The finished line will look like this: (img)http://mywebpages/bfenster/filename(/img) Round brackets have been substituted for square brackets in the sample line so that you can see the code. That’s it.
Here is the catch to photos in you posts.
Since you are keeping the photos and not the TIC170A if at any time you delete or change the name of the photo file or move it to another storage space with a new URL, the link in your post will go nowhere and the photo will no longer appear. Unless of course you remember all you posts with photos and go back and update the URL.
So for the sake of archiving information don’t use photos to show something unique that you also can’t or don’t discribe in print. It would be shame for someone 2 years from know looking for information only to find the
