>Could a brief "how to" article summarizing the steps to posting multiple pictures in one posting be able to find a place in the WC Articles section? I realize this is not ww'ing related, but those of us who only know how to put one picture per posting (and sometimes screw it up, what with Preview etc.) would benefit from a fool proof permanent guide.
If someone wants to spell it out for me here and now, it would be appreciated, but please be careful to be literal in the HTML parts and let me know if using Preview changes anything from the uploads.
This is not meant to burden Ellis with more work other than blessing whatever someone else volunteers to write. Maybe the article could be packaged with the treatise on "SWMBO" in a "how to use this site" section.
>Part of the problem with our beloved forum software is that it doesn't accept multiple photo uploads. There isn't a lot of development going on at WebBBS headquarters to change that, so, as you noted, the procedure for uploading more than one photo at a time necessarily involves some simple HTML coding. The cruel irony is that, to call out several images in a post requires that the images already be on the web somewhere. If you have a website, you can store all the images you want there and call them up with the appropriate HTML commands in your message post. If you subscribe to an online photo posting site like Picasa, you can construct your HTML tags to call photos from that site.
Constructing an HTML image tag takes the following syntax:
<img src="http://yoursite.com/imagefilename.jpg">
so, if your image is at tomsontag.com and is in the /images directory of tomsontag.com and is called photo4.jpg, your tag that you would type into the message form would read:
Whatever you do, make sure you preview your post first to make sure all the syntax went through correctly. Pay particular attention to opening and closing brackets (< >) and double quotes around the image address. If everything is good, you will see photo4.jpg wherever you placed the image tag in your post.
Is this clear enough? I would dearly like to help anyone who is a little behind the computer curve. It's not hard to do, but it is new and complex to a lot of people. If the above explanation did the trick for you, let me know and I'll make it a new FAQ.
Did I mention that this only works if the images are already up on the web -- on your site or someone else's?
>Excellent summary Ellis, thanks. I would suggest you add the essence to the FAQs, wherever they are. But since the whole thing begs the question of a (free-ish) photo hosting site (or somehow utilising the space I think I get with my DSL subscription), I am back to hacking through unfamiliar territory just to show everyone my Townsend clone.
A portion of the above is untrue. But the subject line is true.
FAQs are the second item in the menu at left *LINK*
Ellis Walentine
>Assuming you're coming to our boards through the .../msgset.shtml link, you should see a red navigation bar at left with a fairly complete menu of WoodCentral departments. FAQs is the second entry from the top. We could stand to revise a lot of those.
>about the usefulness of archives sold on disks to preserve for future generations thE positively priceless jewels that are contained therein. I was just thinking the other night about all the posts I have made to Badger Pond and WC which contained photos hosted on other servers. At least two of those servers no longer exist so the photos cannot be seen by anyone reviewing the old posts. I still have many of the photos on my computer but they are not on the WC server. Woe is me. (G)
I don't think you can do much about posted photos. You don't own the right to copy and distribute many of them.
The technical solution would be an archiving system that saves a copy of all linked photos. That's easy to do. Just save it as a web archive and use the "embed photos" option. The problem comes in when you try to sell a CD. Once again you don't own the rights to many of the external photos. You don't even know which photos you do own!
I don't think there's any reasonable way to deal with it on a bulletin board.
>I believe that he is referring more to pictures a person takes of a project, hosts on a server somewhere and links in the pictures. There are no copyright issues with these, but they would not necessarly be available at a future time. You can see some of this in the WC archives. If you want the pictures to always be available, you should post multiple pictures, or put it together as an article. In fact, it might be nice to have a few more articles that document making something, giving the methods, caveats etc. with progress pictures. This would make it available for posterity, and also be useful to others that might have a similar project in mind. Any takers?
Case can sometimes screw you up depending on your host service. Some servers can be case sensitive on such things as file names. For example, if you uploaded the file named like Photo4.Jpg and your server was case sensitive, the example above would not work.
>…everything in a URL up to (and including) the .com, .org, .net, .gov, .edu, etc., is not case sensitive (nor are email addresses). Everything after the domain name should be considered case sensitive. At least be aware that it likely is and treat it accordingly.
>about the usefulness of archives sold on disks to preserve for future generations thE positively priceless jewels that are contained therein. I was just thinking the other night about all the posts I have made to Badger Pond and WC which contained photos hosted on other servers. At least two of those servers no longer exist so the photos cannot be seen by anyone reviewing the old posts. I still have many of the photos on my computer but they are not on the WC server. Woe is me. (G)
When I checked the links on the old website, I found that about 80% of them no longer work or lead to questionable sites. This often happens when people pass away, and their family members don’t know how to manage their website. The hosting fees don’t get paid, the domain name expires, and then it’s taken over by someone who either tries to sell it or redirects it to an inappropriate site.
WoodCentral has been around for 25 years, and I expect it will be here for another 25. We’re not just a website anymore—we now offer hosting services, similar to companies like GoDaddy or BlueHost. This means we can host websites with their own domain names.
We can also host WordPress sites. I set up WordPress in a way that allows multiple websites to run from a single setup. This is much easier than managing separate sites, as it only requires updating and maintaining one system. Our server uses LiteSpeed and Ryzen processors, which work great for WordPress. For example, the following are all separate sites running on this setup: https://www.woodcentral.com/-/blogs/
If you have photos of your projects that you want to preserve for the future, I recommend uploading them to our Gallery. Creating a Gallery account is simple, though organizing your photos into albums might feel a bit tricky at first. Don’t worry about that—just upload your photos, and I’ll help you get them organized once they’re on the server.
