How do I post a picture?

Vanity

[starlifter]

How do I post a picture on Freep?

[avacado]

Click the Internet’s two blue buttons.

[cartan]

Like this:

<img src="http://www.foo.com/foobar.jpg">

[wolfcreek]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/757944/posts

[DJ MacWoW]

FR HTML Sandbox

[brytlea]

First you must put it on another site, like photobucket or flickr. They will have code for you to use if you don't know html.

[Yo-Yo]

1) Find a picture on the web that you wish to post.

2) Right click on that picture, then click on "properties."

3) You will see the URL for the picture. Highlight it (all of it, it may be longer than you can see in the window) and hit ctrl+c to copy it to your clipboard.

4) In your post, type <img src=" (including the quote) then hit ctrl+v to paste the url from 3 above, then type "%tg; (Including the quote)

5) Example: <img src="http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/f-111_1.jpg">

will look like this:

[Mr. K]

alright, after ALL THIS TIME why is it Free Republic does nothave an upload place for photos?

If we post it as a link to an external site we risk it moved or changed.

[mnehring]

You start at this link.
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/

Once you have completed this step, please return to this thread.

[Yo-Yo]

Oops. Step four should read:

4) In your post, type <img src=" (including the quote) then hit ctrl+v to paste the url from 3 above, then type "> (Including the quote)

[Travis T. OJustice]

The quotation marks are almost never necessary.

[missnry]

Click your heals together 3 times and repeat, "There's no place like FreeRepublic, there's no place like FreeRepublic.."

[thackney]

Because that cost more money and there are lots of free sites already available.

Open a free photobucket account or some other site and store a copy of the picture there.

[Tennessee_Bob]

AARDVARK!!!!!!

Whew - flashbacks.

[cartan]

They are in XHTML, so it’s a good habit, I think.

[mnehring]

alright, after ALL THIS TIME why is it Free Republic does nothave an upload place for photos?

Those work fine for small forums, but they can get real bandwidth heavy. I helped administer a consumer review site that had similar hits into the tens of millions and we trialed something similar and it almost brought the site down. If this was like a newspaper website where there are one or two contributors, but millions of hits, it could be fine. If it where a forum with a bunch of contributors but few hits, it would be fine, but with tens of thousands of posters and millions of hits, it can really drag a site down.

Even Blogger has problems at times and that has the power of Google's data farms behind it.

I'm sure Jim could do this if he wanted, but the expense for bandwidth and server space would probably triple. Its all a balancing game...

BTW, I have no inside baseball knowledge, this is just a guess as to why..

[VA_Gentleman]

ping

[txroadkill]

like this

[txroadkill]

or like this

[Yaelle]

What I like to do is tape the picture to the monitor and just trace around the outlines.