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Originally posted by Dan O'Malley:
By the way, I know this has been discussed before but whats the easiest way to post a picture on here, as i have a couple of pics of gord to show.
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OK dan you asked for it!!
I'll present you with a "quick and dirty" method for displaying pix here.
My revised tutorial is on the back burner but fundamentally you can only display pix that are already uploaded to a web site somewhere.
If you have free web space provided by your Internet Service Provider of course you can use that.
I am coming to the end of my research into setting up a completely free web site for this and other personal use plus an introduction to writing web pages using HTML which is loads of fun and very satisfying albeit initially and inevitably frustrating due errors etc!!
So for now use the free album facility presented by MSN Communities
1.firstly make sure the desired pix are easily accessible (On a floppy is the easiest way I find)
2.then simply go to either the GL home page at:-
http://groups.msn.com/TheHomePageOfG...t/shoebox.msnw
Or to the group I set up specificaly for this purpose at:-
http://groups.msn.com/corfiddisplay
3.On either one enroll yourself as a member
4.then click on the relevant "pictures" menu item to access the photo albums
5.select the "corfid testing" album
6.click on "add photos"
7.Install the MSN tool which is a quick process
8.you should then see a list of your computer's drives select as appropriate
9.a 'thumbnail" display of all pix on that drive should appear alongside the drive listing
10.check the pic you want to upload
11.edit the picture if desired
you can rotate it if necessary and/or do some basic editing there such as:-
adjust brightness contrast and crop but
not resize (that is another subject that I will be addrssing as too large a picture can cause scrolling problems on this forum)
12.when ready click the "upload now" button and bingo
13.you can now link to it How exactly??
14.Right click on the thumbnail to load the full picture in your broweser
15.then right click on it
16.select properties
17.highlight and copy the picture's address to your clipboard (as far as where it will say jpg)
18. I strongly reccomend that at this point you check you have it right by pasting from the clipboard into a new browser window
example
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0SACRA...g/MVC-004F.JPG
19.put the UBB codes [img] in front and[/img] after that address
or "cheat" by using the (new) images feature under the full reply box
(where it says "Instant UBB Code")
20.then if you so wish to add a suitable caption below the picture
so that the result comes up hopefully like this
Ron Jones from Vancouver singing at John Fowles request the great unreleased GL song "Face Of A Thousand People" on his Gibson B 45 12 string
watched by an enchanted Donnie
Budd from Texas
TIP
to ensure you have the text correct and avoid appearing here as a dufus you can preview the post before posting or even do a dummy run on the test forum:
Either create yet another test topic or reply to this one:-
http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...c&f=3&t=000136
Finally send it using the "add reply" button or whatever
John Fowles
You knew someone but was it love
So many years push came to shove
