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Linking to pictures in URLs
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:49 am
by marcus
Just a test. I've registered with one of the free image hosting sites, and want to try out linking to a picture there.
Temple of the Oracle, Siwa
"Then press the red button ..."
2 minutes later: "Ooh, I say!"
1 minute after that: and if you click on the thumbnail it sends you to a full-size picture on the hosting site. Dead good.
Very nice...
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:03 pm
by Thomas
...use of bbcode there marcus!
I thank you
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:20 pm
by marcus
Blimey, I could start making out that I know what I'm doing!
Hmm, perhaps not!
ATB
For those that are interested:
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:33 pm
by Thomas
Re: For those that are interested:
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:23 pm
by amyntoros
webmaster wrote:This is marcus' bbcode
Okay, I get where the first URL came from - if I click on the picture it sends me to a site with that address. So how, why, and where was the jpg URL created? Sorry, I'm an absolute doofus when it comes to internet language - have even avoided posting on Tim Spalding's Classical Wiki because I was so intimated by the need to use codes! OTH, it'd be nice to understand how images can be included in a post. . .
The image code
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:05 pm
by Thomas
I am going to try and use BBcode to show this. Hope it works:
This is marcus' code (with due apologies to those with colour deficiency!):
[URL=http://www.picfury.com/l/Siwa_Oracle_temple_1-1.html]
[img]http://www.picfury.com/l/Siwa_Oracle_temple_1-1-th.jpg[/img]
Temple of the Oracle, Siwa
[/URL]
RED: This is the code for the link to the page. Note that the url code spans everything (the image AND the text for the link);
ORANGE: This is the location of the jpeg image file;
BLUE: This is the code that tells the forum to make the image an image;
The other text is the text in the link.
You of course need to be hosting the image on another site. Use the search link I put in (
Link to (pothos supporting) Google search on image hosting) the clicks on that today have made us $0.50!
My secret
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:20 pm
by marcus
Of course, it's made much easier by the fact that, if you upload a picture to PicFury, they give you all the codes - all you have to do is click "copy" on their site, and click "paste" in your Pothos Forum message. They even include the [url=] business.
I'd love to make it seem that I've been some sort of wizard - but honestly, it couldn't have been easier.
ATB
