How to hotlink/embed/post pictures on forums
I often find people asking how to post pictures on forums, and I've re-written instructions a few times...might as well post them in one place and link to it whenever someone asks.
How to post pictures on a vBulletin forum Also works on web forums running most other software. In brief: 1. Upload your photos to a web host like Photobucket, Tinypic, or Picasaweb. 2. Get the image address. 3. Post the image address surrounded by [IMG] tags. In detail: 1. First, you need a place to upload and host your pictures. It doesn't really matter where. Or, if you've found a picture on the web that you want to use, skip this step.
2 and 3. Once your pictures are hosted somewhere, you have to get their addresses and embed them in your messages...
Tips:
Notes on using Picasaweb: If you use Picasaweb you need to manually change the URL to specify a size as a directory name just before the filename in the form of sXXX where s is the letter s and XXX is the resolution, or it won't display for anyone but you. Sometimes the image address that you find has a resolution specified but it's not one that you can hotlink (for example, 912). Available widths are s144, s288, s576, s1152 (maybe), s320, s640, s800, s1024, s1280. Here's an example: s144: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg s640: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg s912, which might be in the address when you find the image but may not embed/hotlink properly: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg http://lh6.ggpht.com/_oNsRR_T1Qx0/R4...179952-3-x.jpg You can quote this message to see the image tags and how I did it. |
how do you get the youtube vids to show up in the thread
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On this forum and on GMFullSize.com you use "yt" tags with the videoID. On Camaro5.com it's the same except you use "u2b" tags.
The videoID is a nonsense string of characters in the URL that you learn to recognize after finding a few. It is after an equal sign and usually followed by an ampersand ("&"). As with the picture post, you can quote this to see how I did it. Code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LJHrVXVr-c&feature=channel_page Video page Full screen |
Damn it, that was a interesting police chase. They ended it before it was over :(
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Yeah, that pissed me off. I saw it on tv, though, and the end was worthless anyway...it just slows, stops, and the driver gives himself up.
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