Gloria

Others have much more knowledge of this sort of thing but GW seems to be fairly limited in what you can put in this here "Message:" box. Apparently, it's just these "a href" codes with these "<'s" and ">'s." I can't quite demonstrate it or GW feels compelled to slap something between one ">" and the other.

It isn't difficult, at all, to use photobucket. And, if you don't want to open an account, it's even easier to use Tinypic.com. I don't think you should be worried about using that quick service since it's owned by photobucket.

Click their "browse" button, find your picture, and then upload. You'll find the code when it's finished and you can copy it into the GW message box.

digitalS'

Here is a tutorial of sorts from the lawncare forum with screenshots.

If you want to provide links to the pictures, you'll use href tags, but if you want the pictures to appear in the body of the post, you'll need img tags. It looks something like this:

For a clickable link:
<a href="put url here">Description goes here</a>

For the image in the post:
< img src="url goes here" alt="description in case picture doesn't display">

the alt= isn't required but will display text if the picture doesn't display for some reason. You can also specify a height and width for the picture.

If you managed to get to the bottom of the photo hosting thread I started that BP linked above, I just want to let you know that I really do like Picassa! You download your pictures from the camera to Picassa, then you can edit them if you want to, and then you transfer them to Picassa WebAlbums and can post them from there--using whatever size you want. And it's really easy! If I can do it-----it's really easy!

I guess it's easy to post from PhotoBucket and other sites too, but, if I understand it right, you can't do any editing on those sites, so if you want to edit anything you'd need to use PhotoShop or something else first before putting them in PhotoBucket for posting.

You can see all the help I got when I didn't know what to do, so if there's ANYTHING you can't figure out, come ask. Somebody will have an answer.

Skybird

how do you get the picture to turn out smaller

digitS'
Hey, I get to play around sometimes too!

<img src="url of picture goes here" height="nnn" width="nnn">

It's probably easier to edit the picture if you don't want to test different values in a local file first, since you can stretch/distort the picture if you're not careful.

320x184

to 160x92

to 80x46

to 40x23

It seems like some of the photobucket instructions need to be updated for changes at that website.

Hmmmmm.... This href thing is a lot longer than I was expecting. Well, we'll give it a try anyway. Here goes.

Bruce

From preview, it seems like I got it half right. The IMG link to put the pic right in the message worked okay, but the link version isn't up to speed yet. Is the href thing supposed to go in the box for "optional link URL" or am I still supposed to put that one right in the body of the message? I'll try the box this time

Nope, that didn't work either. Preview now gives me
**************************************
Message Rejected
Either you did not provide a name for your link, or this does not appear to be a valid Internet URL.

Please make corrections below:

Optional Link URL:

Name of the Link:

If your site is on the Web, your URL should look something like this: http://forums.gardenweb.com
*******************************************

Any suggestions? It seems like it doesn't like that space between the [IMG]http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac132/barlitone/07-05thefrontyard-andrediris-1.jpg[/IMG]

The [img] syntax is not valid HTML code. You need HTML to indicate the source location for that data. The syntax to display an image is img src = (without the other chars so we can see it).

Dan (old FORTRAN, DOS, NOMAD guy)

Steve

Okay, let me try again, with the linked URL method.

Bruce

Hmmmmm..... Okay, the one on Photobucket, pick "share", then "get link code" tab, which is labeled "IMG for bulletin boards and Forums" now is not working for me (maybe I was mistaken last week about which one was working and which was not), but now the one which is called "HTML for websites and blogs" seems to be working just fine.

Regardless, it seems like I can just pick one, preview it in the preview of the post, to see if it's working. Then if it doesn't work, all I have to do is keep pasting in different link code options from that tab on Photobucket, until it's doing what I want. I like that. Trial and error is always a good method for me (as is also true in the garden).