Including a photo from Album in forum post

[weber]

Probably my bad, but couldn't get a photo from the RRC.com album to come up in an RRC.com forum post. Any suggestions?

test:



Rick

[Jay]

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2167/180 ... 368c_o.jpg">

test:

<img src="http://www.redriverclimbing.com/album_p ... ic_id=2358">

It works!

[dhoyne]

HTML is your friend, Rick.

[krampus]

Don't worry rick, you are not the only one.

Just out of curiosity, does the format above work if the picture is stored on you home computer.

[Meadows]

I recommend starting an account with with a free photo album service like Flikr, Shutterfly or Photobucket. I use photobucket and below each picture, there are links to copy (link to photo, HTML tag, and IMG tag). You'll use the IMG tag to post images here.

PS Your link didn't work because it goes to a page, not an image. Your link should end with an image file extension (e.g. .jpg, .gif, .bmp)

[cushman]

It's a problem with the question mark. The BBS software doesn't like a question mark (parameter) in the URL for the image. You'll have this problem with Flickr, too unless you modify the image URL. Example:

Linking with http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/175 ... df4bd3.jpg


Linking with http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/175 ... d3.jpg?v=0


Fortunately, Flickr's ?v=0 doesn't matter, so you can leave it off.

[tomdarch]

Don't worry rick, you are not the only one.

Just out of curiosity, does the format above work if the picture is stored on you home computer.

Simple answer: no

What's happening is that your post needs to include some code to tell peoples web browsers where to get the photo from a web server somewhere on the internet.

So, the first step is to put the photo on a web server where it can be accessed (like flickr, etc)

Then you take the URL (aka web address) that gets the photo (and only the photo) to display in your web browser, and put it in the code above in your post. (On a Windows computer, you can usually get this address by right clicking on the photo on a web page and looking at the properties - on a lot of web servers, this address will include a fair bit of gobledygook - thats the "?" discussion above.) This means that when people view the thread, their web browser pulls in the photo from that web server and puts it in the post where you want it.

I barely understand this well enough to get it to work after a bit of messing around each time I put photos in my posts. Expect a bit of trial and error with previewing your posts until you get the swing of it.

[ReachHigh]

<img src="c:\Documents and Settings\ReachHigh\Desktop\coolpic.jpg"> isn't working.