Just a test

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 5:17 pm

to see if I can get an image to embed here:

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 5:36 pm

crap. “F”. damn. I give up.

Post by **_Gazelam** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:29 pm

This what you wanted? I can't read German

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:30 pm

Yes! How did you do that?

Post by **_Gazelam** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:32 pm

Right click on the image, and click on properties, then cut and paste the url from properties in the [img] brackets

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:34 pm

I'm using a Mac and I don't get a "properties" option when I right click...

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:35 pm

Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:36 pm

Ok figured it out....whew!

Many thanks Gaz!!

Post by **_Mr. Coffee** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:42 pm

Blixa wrote:Yes! How did you do that?

He used the URL of the image and not of the site, Blixa. The URL you used in your first attempt was to the site that the image was hosted on. Gaz used the URL of the image itself, which is a no-no as hotlinking is considered bandwidth theft, and some sites play merry hell on people that hotlink images directly from their site.

What you want to do is tag it [img]URL.gif/.jpg/.png/whatever%20image%20format[/img] remove the spaces and bingo.

Example: Using the above image tags, and an image from my Photobucket account.

Here is what the tags and image URL looks like, remove the spaces and you get the following...

Also, instead of hotlinking the image direct from the site, get yourself an imagehosting account, rightclick on the image you want, choose "save as", then post it on your image hosting site, then use the URL from your image hosting site. I use Photobucket for general image/video hosting, it's free, has some decient tools, and it's got a pretty massive hosting and bandwidth alotment for the free accounts, and unlimited hosting bandwidth/storage for paid accounts.

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Post by **_Blixa** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:50 pm

danke, coffee