Multiple Picture Posting?

Re: Multiple Picture Posting?

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Your link doesn't work. Are you sure you copied it correctly and completely?

Here is a link to an answer I gave to another contributor to WoodCentral who wants to do the same thing. It's kind of complicated, and you have to be very careful with your syntax, but lots of people have figured it out.

Posting multiple pictures & links *PICS* *LINK*

The important point:

Dan Donaldson

>The main thing is that if you want to use the upload feature, you can only post one picture. William gave you the codes that you would need to get multiple pictures, but you also have to have your own website or hosting service to use it. Be aware that many of the "free" picture hosting sites will either not allow direct linking to pictures, or will limit the number of views, resulting in many people getting a picture unavailable message.

Re: Multiple Picture Posting?

daleM in St. Albert, AB

>Link was copied from "Deans Bench Photo's" in the index. Dean's bench photos? (views: 269) -- Frank D. in Montreal -- Tuesday, 9 August 2005, at 8:19 p.m.

The link is found in the "This link? *NM* *LINK* (views: 189) -- Ed Thomas, Leaside (Toronto) Ontario -- Tuesday, 9 August 2005, at 8:54 p.m. ".

Re: Multiple Picture Posting?

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>It didn't work for me because you didn't copy the complete link. You wrote

http://woodcentral.com.ldh0138.uslec.net/cgi-bin/a

The link in Ed's post is

http://woodcentral.com.ldh0138.uslec.net/cgi-bin/archives_handtools.pl?read=61224

To study how Dean wrote the HTLM statements and where he put his pictures, go display Dean's post, at the link in Ed's message, and then ask your browser to "Show HTML Source". Different browsers have different comands to do it, so you'll have to find the command yourself. It might be under the "View" menu item. It might be a command key, often ctrl-e.

Re: Multiple Picture Posting?

daleM in St. Albert, AB

>I am not sure but I would say his pics are stored here?

http://www.mm.com/

Minnesota Micronet?

Would you agree?

dale

Re: Multiple Picture Posting?

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Yup, you done good, that's where they are. He probably pays a monthly fee for his server space.

Often a few megabytes are bundled in the monthly fee you pay your Internet Service Provider (ISP) (canada.com, in your case) for a modem or DSL connection, e-mail service, etc, if you access the Internet from home. It's worth investigating. If your ISP offers this service to you, they probably also provided you with some software, generically called an FTP client, for your PC, that will allow you to upload photos and HTML files (the basis for a web page) and otherwise manage this webspace.

A quicker, easier way to find the URL of a picture on a web page, than decyphering the HTML source, is to right-click on the picture and select the option to "Open picture in new window" You're browser will display its URL in the Address Bar. At least that's the way it works in some browsers.

Multiple picture posting without a website base.

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>The usual upload is of a single picture. Multiple pictures require an independent website. I do not have the luxury of the latter, but am still able to upload several pictures. In actuality, they are a single upload, that is, several pictures combined into one presentation.

The trick here is to (a) combine pictures, and (b) reduce the combined pictures to fit under the 40 Kb limit.

My method is:

(1) Use a programme such as Photoshop to crop the excess off the pictures you wish to include.

(2) I have Photoshop Elements 2.0, which is a cut down version of Photoshop. It has a feature that will merge pictures into a group ("Create Photomerge"). What you have at this point may be 5 photos, each about 850 Kb in size, then merged into one picture of 2.5 Mb.

(3) Of course something this size is way, way too large and must be reduced in size to under 40 Kb. I have found that I just do not have the skill to use Photoshop or other similar programmes to do this reduction without losing considerable clarity.

(4) My technique (which I have reported here before) is to save the picture as a Jpeg file, then import this into a Word document, and save the document as a Html file. This will produce an associated file that contains the graphics for the Html document. In this file will be duplicate pictures, one the original size (say 2.5 Mb) and another which is a thumbprint (about 25 Kb). You can return to the Html document and resize the picture there to resize the thumbprint. (Save it each time you resize, then view it in Windows Explorer).

Below is an example of a 2.5 Mg collection of photos reduced to 39 Kb.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Thanks William

daleM in St. Albert, AB

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Re: Multiple picture posting without a website bas

daleM in St. Albert, AB

>Very good. I don't have any photo software but I did manage to put all my test pics onto a PowerPoint slide and then save it as a jpg file. Then I resized it in Microsoft photo editor to get it down below 40kb. This is a test post to see how it worked.

Thanks much

dale

Re: Multiple picture posting without a website bas

daleM in St. Albert, AB

>One more try. This picture is compressed 40? rather than being resized. It is exactly 40kb

dale