Here is the tutorial on how to post pictures!
If you want your photos to appear in your signature, or actual threads, you will need to use an outside image host and insert them with HTML code. You cannot link to images stored on your computer.
We now offer image hosting here at DaBearz.com so this should be your best bet, as we have the bandwidth for it and it helps the site by hosting your pictures here and also linking your pictures to other sites if you visit them. You can upload pictures as a member here:
http://www.dabearz.com/forums/vbimghost.php?do=upload
Also, here is a listing of free web hosts:
http://www.dabearz.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5459
You probably have as much as 10Mb of space that your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provides. That would be the best place to check first. Most ISPs offer image storage as part of your monthly subscription fee. . . why not use it since you're already paying for it? Another advantage to using the storage space from your ISP is reliability. Most ISPs have minimal down time.
How you upload an image varies depending upon how your image host is set up. For an ISP, you usually make use of a file transfer protocol program, or 'ftp'. Other services such as AOL use service-specific techniques. Services that specialize in image hosting often have a web page where you fill in the name of the file as it is on your machine (perhaps by way of a BROWSE button) to start the upload.
Things to remember when uploading (storing) images to your host:
- URLs (the address of your image) are case sensitive. Try to use all lower case letters when creating your file names.
- Do not use spaces or special characters when creating your file names.
- If you need to separate words use only the dash (- ) or underscore ( _ ) characters.
- Be sure to save your images with a .jpg or .gif file extension.
After you have hosted your image online you will have an URL that points to this image on the internet. If you are using
http://imageshack.us as I am for this example, you will see an area that says %u201CDirect Link to Image%u201D
We need to copy the URL of your image for use on the forum. Simply highlight the URL right click on it and go down to copy.
After this come back to DaBearz.com forum. If you are in the advanced posting mode you will see a little icon of a mountain that will automatically wrap [img] tags around your URL. Simply click on the little mountain:
You should see a prompt box like the one below:
Again, we do another right click and "Paste" our copied URL into this box. Click OK and you will see that our URL automatically has the [img] tags needed wrapped around it!
PHP Code:
Example:
[IMG]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1502/imagebutton7jp.jpg[/IMG]
Now we can just submit our message as we normally do and you will see the image appear.
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other way to post pictures is to host your pictures online as previously mentioned and simply type out the [img] tags yourself.
Just remember in most changes and features you want to add to your posts that it has to start with a bracketed command and end with a bracketed command with a "/" in it like so:
PHP Code:
[img]http://www.dabearz.com/sigs/UserBars/kegstand/howto/imageprompt.jpg[/img]
Notice we have a [img] tag at the beginning, and a [/img] tag at the end. The "/" lets it know that the line of code is ending. Everything between the [img] tags is your website URL of the picture.
That should be it so anytime you want to post a picture remember you have to host it online somewhere, and apply the [img] tags to both front and back. Images can be used in the forum boards itself, and you can also apply the same technique to host pictures in your signature.
Simply go to the top and click on "User Links" from there you will see an option to "Edit Signature" Here is where we can add pictures with the [img][/img] tags to our signatures.
I hope this helps if you are still having problems feel free to PM the staff we are here to help.
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