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Posting pictures here

rameleni1rameleni1 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I have seen a few posts that contain pictures of firearms here. I know how to link to the pics somewhere else, but how am I able to put the pic in this post, without a link. I don't have a lot of webpage space to put pics in. I think it would be very nice to see what people are talking about, and to show our guns to each other. If someone knows how to do this, please respond. We could have a thread of "user pics"

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  • rameleni1rameleni1 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I took a pic of one of my guns, and tryed the cut and paste method.... no luck. I am trying to get my web page setup now. This is very difficult. I did it once before. It would be much less of a hassle, if someone could tell how to do it here.

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    You need a web page to post pics in here as you need the link... our server provides us with a huge amount for web pages.. once the pic is posted there, then hit open in new window.. grab the link.. hit insert image in here,.. post the link..and Bingo.. you have your pic...


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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have found the Forum code to be spotty in terms of its reliability in turning links into pictures, so I tend to use the HTML code and it always converts and shows up properly. Sometimes, editing a post can goof up the code again, but I can always replace the goofed up code with a new HTML code link, and the picture magically reappears.

    I know this may be Greek to some, but may be helpful to others.

    The bottom line is, if you want a place to store your pictures online for linking, try creating a gallery over at www.alloutdoorschat.com. Then, once you've uploaded your JPGs over there, you can link them here by referring to that address.

    The trick to using HTML code to imbed a picture in a post is to start and finish your link by typing the little arrow signs that you see on your keyboard above the comma and the period. Inside those brackets, you place the HTML code for a picture link, which is as follows:

    img src="http://gallery.alloutdoorschat.com/youruserID/yourpicture.jpg"

    Replace "youruserID" with your user name on your gallery site. Replace "yourpicture" with your own picture title. Place then entire above string, including the quotation marks, between the opening and closing arrow brackets and your picture will appear in your post. For those of you who know your math, you would open your link with the "less than" arrow, and close your link with the "greater than" arrow. For those of you who don't remember the math thing, open your link with the arrow that points left, and close the link with the arrow that points right.

    These arrows are critical to learn for anyone interested in learning a few basic, simple HTML commands, because they're used for everything. If you want to bold something you put a b between these brackets. To italicize something put an i between these brackets. For a carraige return you put br between the brackets. To center something, type the word center between these brackets. To stop bolding or italicizing something, put a /b or a /i between these brackets. This does make sense, and gets easy once the light bulb comes on over one's head.

    I'm offering this as an alternative method to get a picture to post for those who can't seem to make the provided IMG button method to work correctly. I have used the board's IMG button to do the picture posts below, though, and it worked fine (!). But I wouldn't try to edit those messages, because editing sometimes spoils the code somehow.



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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 08/07/2002 19:19:14
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can not copy it from your computer. You have to have it posted on the web by a host, like offeror's suggestion. It is easy to post a picture once you get someone to host it on the web.Another free site to host pictures is;http://www.ranchoweb.com Just sign up, it is easy to upload pics. Then just use the address that comes up.There is a limit as to how many free pics they will host.They also have a HTML practice board there.Here is one that I host there.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    With property and copy you can paste pic link from anywere and post it here as long it's somewere in the net...

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/FTHLogo300x75.gif

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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's true. If you right-click on most web photos or graphics, you will get the Properties box, and there you will find the picture's existing web address. If you highlight the entire address and "copy" (Ctrl-C will do it), then you have copied that address link to your temporary memory where you can then paste it into a message. The linked address will cause the picture to appear in the new location.
    Right click on the picture of the man with the gun above and select "Properties," and you will see, among other things, the address http://forums.gunbroker.com/FTHLogo300x75.gif. When you insert that into any message anywhere on the web as an image, it will appear there too. Like so:



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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It works the same way on any other web site. Right-click the graphic you want to borrow, choose "Properties," highlight the entire picture address line, and hit Copy. Go to your Gunbroker message, select Insert Image, and Paste the address in between the two bracketed codes, thusly:



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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    ram.... I don't think


    (A very good looking firearm)

    that it is possible


    (World's ugliest gun)

    to put pictures here

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis

    Edited by - shootist3006 on 08/08/2002 02:47:01
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