Just Testing Something Out

[Roadie]

A mod can delete this it if it works....and if it doesn't! Can people please tell me if they can see the picture below.

[Benner]

We can

[Roadie]

Woo! It worked, thank you!

[prime77]

I still have no clue how you guys do that.

[Grant Lamontagne]

That one is done with Image tags.  You have to have the image hosted somewhere else.  You can either upload your pictures to a image hosting site like Picasa or Photobucket, another forum, pretty well anywhere you can, or you can Google something (like Optimus Prime) then go to Images, find one you like and steal it.  The important thing is that you get the address of that particulat picture.

If you use Internet Explorer, right click on the image and select "Properties" where you will find an address that looks like this:

http://www.sosakonline.com/images/stories/November_07/Update/S1701.JPG

That's an image I just took from SOSAKOnline.  I pasted the link and if you click on it you will see a picture of an EVOGrip model.  If you paste that link in between some Image tags then you get this:



Image tags are simple0 you can get them by clicking on the tiny icon above the box where you type responses- it is the one with the tiny little photo in it, or you can enter them manually.  Just type in img surrounded by square brackets (next to the letter P on your keyboard, don't use the shift key) then paste the link, then close it with /img surrounded by the same square brackets.  When you are done, your link should look like this:

[ img ]http://www.sosakonline.com/images/stories/November_07/Update/S1701.JPG[ /img ]

Only without the spaces.  If I type it without the spaces, it won't show you the link, it'll show you the picture.

Def

[Grant Lamontagne]

I forgot to mention that it's easier to find the location of a picture if you are using FireFox.  Simply right click on the picture you want to use and select "Copy Image Location" then paste that link into the Image tags and you are good to go.

Def

[prime77]

All right I'll give it a go




Did it work?

[Grant Lamontagne]

If you intended to post a picture of a Charge and a Spirit with the bit kits and ratchet, then yes, it worked!

Congratulations!

Def

[prime77]

Holy Crap. It's taken me almost 700 post and over a year here to figure it out. I feel like such and idiot.

I gotta try it one more time



One question Def. If the "link" to the picture you are using is moved or deleted from that address will it not show up.

[Grant Lamontagne]

The picture has to actually be posted at the link that you use.  When you use Image tags, it's a code telling the computer where to get the picture to stick in that spot.  If there's no picture there then it won't work.

You don't want to know how long it took me to figure all of this out on KF years ago!

Def

[Roadie]

It actually wasn't me trying to figure out how to post pictures, it was me testing to make sure my webserver was working as it should be. And according to my guinea pigs it does, so i'm happy

[Grant Lamontagne]

I figured you already knew how to do it... but it worked out just as well!

Def

[WhichDawg]

good job! and nice F1 pictures are fun!

[Grant Lamontagne]

Where did you get that picture of me?  I was young, I needed the money....

Def

[WhichDawg]

micky had it, something about you still owe him

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

micky had it, something about you still owe him

There's more where that came from unless you pay up Def