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How to Post Photos on CC Message Board
By Eleanor McCaffrey
Copyright Notice: No portion of this tutorial
may be, copied, printed or reproduced without
permission from site owner.
1. Posting photos, pictures or graphics on the message
board or in a guestbook is easy. The first thing you must do is get your pictures from your home
computer up to the internet where you can store them. This
is done by a process called Uploading. For those not
familiar with HTML and html tags, I suggest using Photobucket. You can store
your photos in a free, personal, photo album. www.photobucket.com
Photobucket will give you the tags and all you have to do is copy the tag and
paste it into your post. Don't worry, they CLEARLY label
the word TAG so you can't miss it. Signing up for an online photo album
account isn't much different than signing up for a free email account at Yahoo. It only takes a few minutes to register.
You will be asked to choose a username and password. You will also be asked for
your email address and a few other questions. Photobucket will send you a
confirmation email within an hour. Clicking on the email will activate your new photo album.
2. Once the account is open
you will always be asked to sign in with you username and password. You will be taken to a page that says
"Account Options" (Always choose YES for "Display URL,"
"Display Tag" and "Display IMG") "Add
Picture--------Browse" will be in the middle. (Add Picture--Browse is
how you will be able to get the
photographs that you have saved on your own computer, up to the internet.) This is
where you will "Upload the Photographs" that you want to put in your photo album. On the bottom of
this section you will see "Add
Photo Album". Type in the name you would like to call your new album then
click on "Add Album".
3. Uploading Photographs:
Find the empty box that says Add Picture (on the left) and Browse (on the
right). When you click on Browse you will be able to
see all of the files you have stored on your own, home computer. Find the folder
on your computer where you have the photo you want to put on the message board.
Click on the
JPG, JPEG or Gif (the actual picture) you want to put in the photo album
and the name of the photo will appear
in the empty box. The next thing you do is click on "Submit".
Scroll all the way down the page, past the advertisements and you will see your
picture in your new photo album. Hurray! You have just completed the most difficult part! Grab
yourself a snack, give you bird an Avi Cake and relax!.
4. OK, so how do you get that picture from your photo album to show up on the message board? Look
at each individual
picture in your album. Right below each one you will see 4 horizontal
boxes. Don't worry about any of them if you don't
understand what they mean. You will only need to use the one that says
"HTML CODE". Copy all of the letters in this box by right clicking and
paste them
right into your message board post. That's all there is to it! You can now
show off your bird on Cockatiel Cottage's Message Board!
5. If you are keeping your pictures in a different online photo
album, other than Photobucket, you may have to write a simple HTML, image tag, <img
src="URL.jpg"> if you are only given a web URL (web address)
and not an actual image TAG like Photobucket gives you. Img src is just an abbreviation for image source.
A simple image tag is written like this. <img src="copy
the web address on the top of the page where your picture is located.jpg">
You would copy and paste this into your post on the message board. For an example, the picture of the little bear on top of the message board is on
this page in my Bravenet Photo Album. If you click on the first link below
you will see the picture.
http://photos.bravenet.com/227/833/815/0/267FE9DE5D.gif
For the little bear to show up on the Message Board, I had to add a simple HTML,
Image Tag. Bravenet provided the http and the series of numbers.gif. I copied
and pasted them into the html on this page.
<img src="http://photos.bravenet.com/227/833/815/0/BAA8046E7D.gif">
That's it! Just don't forget to use
the quotations marks and the < > brackets as shown above.
6. YAHOO PHOTO ALBUMS is now closed. You can
use a CLICK HERE on the message board like I do for
posting photos stored in other albums. Copy the url that is on top of the page
your photo is on. Put it in a simple "Anchor Href Tag". Here is the html you
should write in your message board post <A href="paste
the web address on the top of the page your photo is on"> CLICK HERE
</A> That's it! When somebody clicks on the words CLICK HERE, they
will be taken directly to your photo. You can also do this for posting links to
other articles you are recommending to others. It makes it much easier for them
to get to. Once again, make sure you have those quotation marks in place.
Leaving one out will make your link not work.
How to Use Colored Text on Message Board
If you want your post to appear in colored text, specify the color name that you like, from this chart, at www.Draac.com
CLICK HERE She has one of the best sites for
html tutorials on the web. For an EASY tut on on writing a HTML font tag--so
you can use these colors.
CLICK HERE
Scroll down to where it
says, "Adding Text Color"
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Graphics Courtesy of Graphic Garden
This tutorial is copyrighted by Eleanor McCaffrey, October 2004, and may not be copied,
re-printed, posted on another website, or used in any other way without permission.
Page Contents, Layout and Design Copyright 2004, Eleanor McCaffrey, Cockatiel Cottage,
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