Adding a Link to a Post Here/Naming that Link:
After you have uploaded your pictures to a website such as bikepics (see previous post), you can include it in a post as either a link or an image.
To insert a link in a post you need the address of the page that the picture is on.  

• To get this, click on the pic you want and then use the url you see in the address line as the link.  
• Then start a message on this forum and insert the url into the message.
• Next highlight the url and click on the "insert hyperlink" in the section called "Add YABBC tags".  It is the second symbol from the left.  This will insert the code for a link around the url.
• As an example, I've included a link to one of my pics from bikepics below.

Remember if you get "page cannot be displayed", click on the link again: http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/220498

Naming the link is easy, it just requires editing the code a little.  The best way to understand how to do this is to click on "quote" on this message.  You will then be able to see the code in the message.  By looking at the code for this link vs. the one above, you will see how to name a link: Purple Savage

Thanks Susan, I'm really crap at this sort of thing but I've copied this and will try to understand it later thanks again again.

Clive W  

As well, most ISPs offer subscribers a fee "home page".  If you create a home page, you can also do as I have....create your own photo albums and post your pictures on your own site and then insert the url using "copy image location" within a posted message on this site.

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


Tried to fix a broken picture link for someone once...

Ok I'm gonna see if I can put a pic in here.......


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With that mastered........... how do you get your own picture or symbol in your profile?  I tried everything I could think of.      ??? ??? ???

Yeah thats what I was doing.  Tried 2 different pictures and nothing came up.  So I tried putting the pic directly into the post..... no problem.  The picture above and another on the same site just will not go into my profile for some reason.  I tried a 3rd one today from a different site and it popped right up.

Susan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:


You can also get a free software package called "Easy Thumbnails".  Go here....

Easy Thumbnails

This software will automatically reduce your photos or graphics to a thumbnail size....but the picture needs to already have a 1 to 1 aspect ratio.  A typical 480 x 640 resolution is a 3 x 4 ratio.  So you should crop it first  to a 480 x 480 (1 to 1) which prevents distortion.  The software will then reduce it to a 100 x 100 pixels.  That is how I created mine.