OT Picture question

Re: OT Picture question (**with pics**)

Wolfgang Jordan

>Yes, but you need to know a little about HTML.

For every picture you want to put in your message you have to include a statement like this:

<IMG SRC="URLofpicture">

Modify the subject accordingly.

Regards, Wolfgang in Munich (Germany)

Re: OT Picture question

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>You have to put them on your own website, and write HTML strings in your message text to display them.

If I can get the delimiters straight, here is a rough example:

< IMG SRC=http://www.yourhost/yourspace/name.html>

Re: OT Picture question

Jeremy Osner

>Hi Don, that's almost right except 2 things: the URL of the image should be enclosed in quotation marks*, and the image filename would end in "jpg" or "gif" or whatever, not "html".

*Actually it just occurs to me now that maybe this is not mandatory. I have always done it but I don't know what the HTML standard says about this.

Picture posting (sorta long)

Dan Donaldson

>As was mentioned above, in order to post more than one picture in a message, they have to be on an external website.

Two things:

First, if you are linking to it as a picture for display in the message, you have to insure that the url you use is the picture itself, which should end in either .jpg, or .gif. If you try it with the page they are on, (.html), you will just get the red "x". Also, the URL does have to be in quotes. The format would be--- <img src="http://www.yourdomain.xxx/yourdirectory/picturename.jpg"> To do more than one picture per message, you have to write a bit of code. Even from an external website, the optional image box will only display one picture.

If you want to use the page address, then you have to do it as a link, either in HTML in the message, or in the optional link url box. If you use the box, be careful that you do not get two http://'s. (do a preview and make sure it works)

One other thing--Some picture hosting sites will not allow external linking to pictures or limit the number of views. Others may be private and require a password to view. This can cause problems if you try to sink to a message on one of those sites.

Re: OT Picture question

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>If I have 2 picture I want to post, I need to know where the pictures are. Let's assume the pictures are named 'Pic1.jpg and Pic2.jpg' and are in a folder called 'Pics' on my 'C' drive. Their location or 'path' would then be C:\Pics\Pic1.jpg and C:\Pics\Pic2.jpg.

To include both of those pictures in my message, I have to include a statement like this:


<IMG SRC="C:\Pics\Pic1.jpg"> Picture #1


<IMG SRC="C:\Pics\Pic2.jpg"> Picture #2


The text at the end of each line, 'Picture #1' and 'Picture #2' is optional and can be whatever descriptive information you want to include.

Hope this helps ;>)!!

OOPS......

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Forgot to mention....using this method you won't have to go to the trouble of using an external website.....just reference the location of the pictures on your own hard drive.

Won't work

Dan Donaldson

>You cannot reference pictures on your own hard drive in a message. It will work if you do it on your own computer, but not in a message. The reason is that the browser has no idea where c:/ is when someone tries to access it. When you use the c: format in the optional image upload, the site actually uploads the picture to the Woodcentral server and then displays it.

Won't work ;-(

Dan Donaldson

>Please read explanation above.

Demo

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Demo:

Picture #1

and then

Picture #2

Re: Demo

deanj

>You may be able to see them, but I get "broken" images here...

Darn!!

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Because it worked in the preview I thought it would work on the web....you're right, of course, because my browser can find my C drive but the WC server has no idea where my C drive is.....live & learn ;>0

Re: Darn!!

Roger Nixon

>If your computer is running a website with a registered domain name, you can do it.

Re: OT Picture question

John Lucas

>If you have photoshop or photoshop elements you can simply start a new page and insert as many photos as will fit on that page. Kind of like putting pictures in a photo album. I'm sure some other photo editing software would let you do the same thing. Then these photos become one page or one document.

True, but

Dan Donaldson

>That page would have to be on a server somewhere to post it in a message. The image upload, and the image link have to be to an actual picture, not a page. You could possibly combine all of the pictures together (which may have been what you meant) and save it as one picture, but in general, the size restriction is probably going to get you if the pictures have much resolution.

Couple options

Ellis Walentine

>The box you type your message in accepts HTML commands, so, as Dan says, if your photos are uploaded to any web-accessible server, you can just put in as many image tags as necessary to call the photos into your message. If you don't have a personal webspace somewhere, this isn't always easy. If you want to put the photos in some particular relationship to the surrounding text, you need to know a bit more about the attributes to image tags. I can't get into that here.

In a pinch, send me the photos and I will upload them to my server and shoot back the URLS so you can call them out in your message post.

I do think that if you have that many photos the better course would be to send them with accompanying text to David Yoho, our shop shots editor. Post this involved probably belong in a more permanent archive, where they won't scroll away in a couple days after all the work of composing the message.

Another alternative is to just respond to your original post with another post and picture. This isn't a lot of work and helps keep the right images with the right text.

Let us know if you need more help with this.

Ellis Walentine, Host

Re: OT Picture question

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Right you are. I was typing faster than my aging brain was working.

BTW, I have never found a need to use the quotation marks. Perhaps that is now obsolete?