Posted on 12/15/2001 9:04:11 AM PST by grumpster-dumpster
Could someone give me some simple advice in a 1-2-3 format on how to post a picture?
I have an original jpeg picture in a file on my hard drive (C: Drive) but cannot seem to get it posted in the forum (even when I use the < img src="?" > html.)
Any simple step-by-step help on how I can get this picture from point "A" (My C: drive) to Point "B" (a reply to a post) will be appreciated.
WOW! When I wrote down the "img src=" html...and previewed this post the little image box with a x in it appeared...so why can't I get the real picture to post?
Pictures that you want to post can be stored on a web site, on a commercial storage service such as Photopoint, or in one of the free areas some servers like AOL give users.
Hope this helps!
Good luck!
Hold on, I'm sure some more expierenced Freepers will show up to help.
To anyone thinking of replying to this thread:
I have the info I needed (Thanks again to all) so I'm grateful for your wilingness to help...but let's let the thread die and save some bandwidth!
How to post pictures .
If I'm being too simplistic here forgive me ,I don't know how much HTML or 'net stuff you already know so I'll keep it simple.
Firstly,the picture has to be on a website somewhere,you can't display it from your hard drive(I know,Duh) There are a lot of free websites out there ,http://www.cityslide.com/default.cfm is probably one of the easiest to use,go there and set up a personal home page,everything is done with wizards(not Harry Pothead)including uploading photo's.
Once you have your site up and your photo's uploaded,Right click on the photo you want to post on FR,left click on properties,highlight the full URL of the photo,and right click and copy it.
Now, go back to FR(if you weren't already there)decide where you are going to post it,and type exactly like this: *img src ="URL here"*Replace asterisks with open and close tags<> replace URL here between the quotes with the URL you copied earlier.Hit preview and your picture should appear as if by magic.
Any other questions ,let me know also check out the HTML bootcamp and sandbox features at FR,lotsa good advice there.
Please don't tell people you cannot do that. When I started on HTML, somebody told me that I couldn't. I took it as a challenge and posted a pic from my hard drive. How about saying "you should never post pictures directly from your hard drive."
1. Print it to color printer
2. Cut out picture
3. Apply past to back of picture
4. Place picture on screen
5. Adjust location before glue dries
If we were able to see a picture from your hard Drive I (or at least a hacker) would likely see everything else on your HD too.
To ALL: Now that I have the picture in a photo-site... If I remove the photo from the file (at the photo site) will it still appear in the "Thread" to which I posted it? Or will the photo no longer load here?
Thanks again for all the hep!
That used to work but neither geocities nor angelfire allow links to their pictures any longer.
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