Placing a photo or picture in posts
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Placing a photo or picture in posts
As of today this is how to place photos in your posts. At the TIC170A web site.
1. You must have storage space on the web that is accessible preferably 24/7 to the public. Lots of email and/or Internet providers give this space away with their service. It is where you would store your personal web pages if you have any or could have them.
2. Your photo must be in the .gif format and should be small physical size (about 3x2 works) and 72 dpi. This will make the file size small and manageable.
3. Save your photo to your storage space and figure out what the web address (url) to the file will be. For example my Internet provider Comcast provides my space. The URL to my space and photos is http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bfenster/filename with filename being the photo file I’d like to show.
4. In your message where you want the image click on the image button at the top of the post window then type the URL then click the image button again. The finished line will look like this: (img)http://mywebpages/bfenster/filename(/img) Round brackets have been substituted for square brackets in the sample line so that you can see the code. That’s it.
Here is the catch to photos in you posts.
Since you are keeping the photos and not the TIC170A if at any time you delete or change the name of the photo file or move it to another storage space with a new URL, the link in your post will go nowhere and the photo will no longer appear. Unless of course you remember all you posts with photos and go back and update the URL.
So for the sake of archiving information don’t use photos to show something unique that you also can’t or don’t discribe in print. It would be shame for someone 2 years from know looking for information only to find the broken link image.
1. You must have storage space on the web that is accessible preferably 24/7 to the public. Lots of email and/or Internet providers give this space away with their service. It is where you would store your personal web pages if you have any or could have them.
2. Your photo must be in the .gif format and should be small physical size (about 3x2 works) and 72 dpi. This will make the file size small and manageable.
3. Save your photo to your storage space and figure out what the web address (url) to the file will be. For example my Internet provider Comcast provides my space. The URL to my space and photos is http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bfenster/filename with filename being the photo file I’d like to show.
4. In your message where you want the image click on the image button at the top of the post window then type the URL then click the image button again. The finished line will look like this: (img)http://mywebpages/bfenster/filename(/img) Round brackets have been substituted for square brackets in the sample line so that you can see the code. That’s it.
Here is the catch to photos in you posts.
Since you are keeping the photos and not the TIC170A if at any time you delete or change the name of the photo file or move it to another storage space with a new URL, the link in your post will go nowhere and the photo will no longer appear. Unless of course you remember all you posts with photos and go back and update the URL.
So for the sake of archiving information don’t use photos to show something unique that you also can’t or don’t discribe in print. It would be shame for someone 2 years from know looking for information only to find the broken link image.
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It is tricky. Either your photo is not a .gif file. There isn't public access to your storage area. You don't have the right link or url. In the post you can't have any breaks in between the first img tag and the last.
PM me privately including a copy of the exact text and link you are trying to post and I can probably help.
PM me privately including a copy of the exact text and link you are trying to post and I can probably help.
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Picture test
Dan
1956 170B N3467D
1956 170B N3467D
Another try
Dan
1956 170B N3467D
1956 170B N3467D
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- Bruce Fenstermacher
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Ok We'll try a .jpg
Nope didn't work for me this time and they haven't in the past. You would think it would but it doesn't. .gif files are the only type I've been able to display.
Nope didn't work for me this time and they haven't in the past. You would think it would but it doesn't. .gif files are the only type I've been able to display.
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Email: brucefenster at gmail.com
Both pics i posted on Monday in the Cessna 171 thread are .jpg. Right-click on the pic and select "properties" and you'll see the url. Right-click and select "view source" and you'll see the html for the page. I posted them using the same mechanism that you outlined in your original post. Works for me.
Doug
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