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- Thread starter John R
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Miss Kitty
Meow
I am already lost...do y'all keep on track?
Kimmifunn
Funnkalicious
Hey Unplugged...and anyone else who is going to play with us. Here's how you "hotlink" a photo. You got the going to google, putting the word in, picking your picture and then opening it...but here's how to post it without saving it, ect. (Compliments of our fearless leader Kirkifunn)
Hotlinking photos that are on the interent is preferable to adding as an attachment. The only reason to attach a photo is if it is only on your computer. And even then you should hotlink it after posting it to the SoWal gallery or one of the many other free photo hosting sites on the net like:
http://imageshack.us or http://photobucket.com
Hotlinking is easy.
First of all - you should make sure you are in full wysiwyg mode for many reasons. Click on "user cp" on the link menu at top, click "edit options", scroll to the bottom and under "Message Editor Interface" select "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing, then save changes.
After doing so, when you are posting, you will see many editing options - one is "insert image" button - - click it and a box comes up where you enter the URL of your image, ie - http://websitename.com/imagename.jpg
So then, when you see an image on the web you want to post, you right click on the image, click properties, click and drag to highlight the name of the image, then right click copy (ctrl C), then right click paste (ctrl V) it into the add image box.
Sounds harder than it is - once you do it a couple of times it is easy. Easier than saving and image to your computer and then uploading as an attachment. One advantage is that it is shown full size instead of as a thumbnail attachment. Just make sure the image is not too wide.
What you end up with to show an image is image tags around a URL:
- with no space.
Hotlinking photos that are on the interent is preferable to adding as an attachment. The only reason to attach a photo is if it is only on your computer. And even then you should hotlink it after posting it to the SoWal gallery or one of the many other free photo hosting sites on the net like:
http://imageshack.us or http://photobucket.com
Hotlinking is easy.
First of all - you should make sure you are in full wysiwyg mode for many reasons. Click on "user cp" on the link menu at top, click "edit options", scroll to the bottom and under "Message Editor Interface" select "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing, then save changes.
After doing so, when you are posting, you will see many editing options - one is "insert image" button - - click it and a box comes up where you enter the URL of your image, ie - http://websitename.com/imagename.jpg
So then, when you see an image on the web you want to post, you right click on the image, click properties, click and drag to highlight the name of the image, then right click copy (ctrl C), then right click paste (ctrl V) it into the add image box.
Sounds harder than it is - once you do it a couple of times it is easy. Easier than saving and image to your computer and then uploading as an attachment. One advantage is that it is shown full size instead of as a thumbnail attachment. Just make sure the image is not too wide.
What you end up with to show an image is image tags around a URL: