How to post pictures in the forum.

[C40]

I dig the forum here but it does have a drawback - with the narrow post width, it's hard to insert pictures. I've had a few requests for help on how to post pictures here. Hope this helps:
So the tricky part about posting pictures here is due to the narrow post width. It's about 400 pixels. I'll list steps here for one method of posting the pictures.
You will want to limit the size of the pictures in your post to about 400 pixels wide. Any more will be cut off. I'll generally use a small version that is 320-400 pixels wide, and have it link to a full size version.
I've captured 2 videos of the process and the Step titles have links to them.
PART one -- get the images uploaded and get the addresses to the full size image and a small version:
1-A - Upload the pictures you want to use to Flickr. (There are certainly other places that will work. Flickr works pretty well because it will create a 320 pixel width version of the image for you.)
1-B - Go to that image in Flickr. Right click it and select the largest size option. This is what you'll be linking to.
1-C - The next screen has the full size image. Right click it and either select "Copy image URL" or similar, or open it in another tab so you can get the address later.
1-D - From the same Flickr screen, select a smaller size of the image. Above the image are re-sizing options. Generally you'll want to select the 320 pixel width one. Click that.
1-E - Repeat step 3 on the small image.


Part two -- posting the image in the forum:
In the post, set up the HTML codes. If you don't know how HTML works, go find a very basic tutorial that shows how to make a link (the "A HREF" one), and how to post an image (the "IMG SRC" one). Create a link to the large image. Then you make the clickable part for the link the small image itself, rather than some text. The small image will show up in the post and will be a link to the large image. Do it like this:
<A HREF="LARGE image URL">

<IMG SRC="SMALL image URL"> </a>
(obviously, using the actual addresses within the quotation marks. I don't think it matters if you actually use those quotation marks in the code or not. If your image URLs don't start with http:// and end with .jpg, you have a problem.)
Feel free to practice in this thread.

[Felix]

Finally. I was banging my head on the table about this for a bit. HTML-Code clear and simple...



Thanks!

[jacob]

@C40 - I edited your post to include <> characters for the HTML. You can insert code verbatim in posts using backticks.

[Spartan_Warrior]

I figured out posting pics, but I've been wondering for a while now: where are the avatar settings? Is there a post count restriction or something? I feel like I've looked everywhere.

[henrik]

I think the forum is set to pull in avatars from Gravatar

[jacob]

That's right.

[rube]

edit: worked

thnx C40!

[sshawnn]