How to add pictures to your forums posts

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:44 pm

Hi, this guide will show you how to add pictures to your messages.

As an example I will make a post in the Home & Garden section telling everyone about the flowers I planted in my backyard.

First you type something like this

Now you're ready to add your picture. You need to go to a free picture hosting service like www.photobucket.com or www.imageshack.com and upload your picture file from your computer. I personally prefer ImageShack so I will use them here

You then need to copy the Direct Link to Image

Now go back to the window with your text in it

Your message should now look like this

You will have to add a finishing touch to have your picture appear in your post

And now this is what your finished product will look like

By the way.....those aren't really my flowers.... Thank You

Site Admin Joined: May 08, 2007 Posts: 103

Another version of this is .....

There are essentially two ways to do it.

1.) You can have a LINK to a graphic. The picture will not show in your message post but will be visible when someone clicks a link like this one, for example http://alivepos.com/images/GrandTetons.jpg . This link was created by typing

Code:

[url]http://alivepos.com/images/GrandTetons.jpg[/url]

The "url" in beginning and ending brackets does not show if correctly typed.
That picture is huge so when you go to the URL LINK and click on the picture it will expand to full size.

2.) A.) You can include your picture IN your message post by using correct code to surround the link to your image. If you type

Code:

[img]http://alivepos.com/images/GrandTetons.jpg[/img].

But if I did that with this huge image people would have to scroll left and right and up and down. So sizing the picture first is necessary. A simple guideline is to keep the pictures proportions but make it no wider than 400 pixels for easy viewing in the forums.

2.) B.) If you need the "big" picture still for some reason you can host it someplace like http://imageshack.us and use a "thumbnail image link" to your picture(s). Just follow these steps:

http://imageshack.us

RESIZE IMAGE

HOST IT

THUMBNAIL FOR WEBSITES

Code:

alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /

Code:

And the end result looks like this in your message post ....

New User Joined: Oct 31, 2009 Posts: 3

Hi Admin.
I would like to give my sincere thanks to you for providing such a valuable information of methods of posting a pictures along with the post. I am looking forward for some nice images in the post.
Thanks for your post and stay connect.