Please: Instructions for Idiots on Linking to Images

FairEmma · Post by **FairEmma** » Thu Jul 12, 2001 12:56 pm

Dear Rich.

When you have a spare moment (you remember what those are, right?) could you kindly explain to me how I can include a .gif or .jpg? I get that I need to put it on my own server, but how do I go about setting it up so it appears as an image in a post?

I know you have posted on this ... but clearly I need the Idiot's Version.

many thanks
FE

Post by **rich** » Thu Jul 12, 2001 3:17 pm

Sure thing. So you've got an image, and you stick it up on, say, Geocities, at
"http://www.geocities.com/fairemma/fnord.jpg". To include it, you can either do this in BBcode:

or you can do this in HTML:

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/fairemma/fnord.jpg">

both of which will stick the image Right There.

Should you forget how, mid-post: if you click on the BBcode link in the Options section of the screen where you compose a post, you'll be taken to the section of the FAQ where all of the BBcode tags are explained.

Hope this helps,

-Rich

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DavidSchulz · Post by **DavidSchulz** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:39 am

[img]http://an_dochas.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/copelandsideview.jpg[/img]

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Blayne Chastain · Post by **Blayne Chastain** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:02 am

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theweirdscotsman · Post by **theweirdscotsman** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 11:07 pm

I still cant get it to work dangit~

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avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 5:02 pm

On 2003-01-02 00:07, theweirdscotsman wrote:

I still cant get it to work dangit~

That's because your URL line is missing the "http://" at the beginning. You are writing:

http://www.geocities.com/knightsofthround/flute1.jpg

...which technically is correct. However, because the http part is missing, the board looks for your address as a subsection of its current location. (think of it as being told to look for a particular page number in a book, except they forgot to tell you to look in a different book than the one you're holding.) So I clicked on your broken image and found out that it was trying to access:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/www.geocities ... flute1.jpg

If you redo your image insertion tag as

it should work. Give it another try.

EDIT - of course, that assumes that Geocities will let you share the picture directly. A lot of people have had trouble with that in the past - Geo tends to block it as direct picture views bypass their advertising.

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rbm · Post by **rbm** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 4:18 am

____wwhhey it worked !!!_____________
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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:19 am

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