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How to Post Pics/

NOTE: You can test your skills in this thread once u learn. Dont just read the tutorial and go right into making/contributing to threads

POSTING PICS

There are actually two different ways to post pics ... which ever way you find convienient will do

Inline Style

or

Forum Features Style

BUT

First you must understand URL'S (if you already know what URL's are just skip to the first step)

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator
this is the address where your pic "lives" at on the internet. i will show you how to find the url of your pic next, but you must know right from the beginning that you cant share your pics on a message board without UPLOADING THEM TO THE INTERNET. If your pics are only on your computer, you can upload them to the internet by using an image hosting site such as

www.photobucket.com
www.imageshack.us
or
www.tinypic.com

WHERE TO FIND THE URL OF YOUR PICS

IF you used an image host like the ones i just mentioned above, the image host will give you the url, just right click and copy it

IF ... the pics that you want to post are already on the internet (on a different website etc) go to the site where the pic is, right click on the pic and click "properties"

then you will see a small window pop up

on the third line from the top, its shows the address/ URL of the pic . click and hold down the left button of your mouse right at the begining of this address and drag your mouse over the entire address until it is highlighted blue....... it will look like this

you can then release the left button of the mouse. now move your mouse anywhere on top of the blue highlighting and RIGHT CLICK

in the small box that appears click COPY ...... you now have the URL of your pic and you can move on to the next step. the next steps will show you the two different styles i mentioned above (inline and forum features style) and WHAT TO DO WITH THE URL

STYLES
Inline style is simply done by typing out the html tags that will make your image appear on the screen

type the following

[img][/img]

these are called IMAGE TAGS

** note ** you have to use a separate image tag for each pic you want to post. you are allowed to have 4 PICS in each post you make. so if you have 8 pics ... you will have to make 2 posts with 4 pics each and so on

now its time to use that url you got earlier. the url needs to go IN BETWEEN the image tags ** see the red bolded below **

[img] THE URL GOES HERE [/img]

to get the url between the tags, simply right click the space in the middle of the image tags and click PASTE.
the image tags and the url should look something like this

[img]http://tmottgogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aliciakeys4.jpg[/img]

once you submit your post or preview your post .... you should see the pic on your screen

FORUM FEATURES STYLE

The forum features style works pretty much the same way but is a little easier to use if you never posted pics before. when ever you post you will see a small toolbar above the text area ... now follow the instructions in the pic below

the forums features style will create the image tags and paste the url in between for you. you can then submit your post or preview your post to display your pics

** note ** you must go thru the forum features process once for each pic. so if you have 4 pics, go thru the process for each different pic AND THEN SUBMIT your post
that is how to post pics ... check back soon for tutorials on creating ANIMATED GIFS

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