just practicing

blowin · just practicing

I still have a mental block about it but I'm sure it can't be all that difficult so here goes at an attempt to post pics .
... With apols in advance to any landline users .... I do hope this doesn't lock your system up for the night . Pm me if any probs and I will delete the lot Wink

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blowin

Hmm , that wasn't supposed to happen !
Let's try Camile's tip for clickable thumbnails . That seems like an awful lot of code to paste but here goes . Should I hit the "Img" button up there ^^ first ?
<center>
<a href="http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u308/dowhat1/IMGP1962-1.jpg" target="_blank">
<img src="http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u308/dowhat1/th_IMGP1962-1.jpg"></a>
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blowin

Hi Camile , what are you doing on Saturday --- after you have fixed Phil's pc , that is ! Laughing

gardener

Don't know if this will work.....

But it did Laughing

Click the Img button top right.... this will appear
[img]
then put in picture code...
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u308/dowhat1/IMGP1962-1.jpg
then close image
[/imp]

Hope that helps, but you'll have to resize for thumbnails....

blowin

Many thanks for that but now I am even more confused ( nothing personal !!! . Laughing

) .
That picture of the pond is obviously too wide for the standard forum page . I have checked its "properties" and it is 800 x 600 px . I will resize it in photoshop but I would like to make that 640 x 480 rather than the smaller thumbnail size . I want the thumbnail size to appear on the forum , giving you the option to click on it to see the bigger version if you want to .
( ok , so I would have to post much more interesting pics for anyone to be bothered to do that , but that is a different issue ! Laughing

. )

If you already know what to do then I am sure this is becoming very tedious --- sorry about that Embarassed

but I am intentionally recording the details of this learning curve in the hope that it might be of benefit to someone else .
And because I used to be a schoolteacher in a previous life , in case you hadn't guessed !

gardener

Camile

Hello bunch of muppets !

I can't understand what you guys are doing wrong !

Photobuckett is really the easiest way to post pictures.. and you are still messing it up !

as I wrote previously, just tick the box for the picture you want ..

then go down the bottom of the page where it says "generate blabla" ..

just click once on "clickable thumbnails" .. it will copy it automatically (it's done on purpose for "dummies" ...

then just paste in your message and you will have a clickable thumbnail . .

as for resizing, photobuckett does it too .. just open the picture you want in photobuckett, and there is a button resize ..

I think I will to organise a workshop of some sort ...

Good luck guys !
Camile

PS Blowin: we might pop down if we have time and I'll try to sort out your PC at the same time .. but Phil's pc is going to be quite time consuming (2/3 hours I think) .. and we will have to leave for 18h max (not like the last time)

blowin

blowin

Riiiiiiiiiight Very Happy

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Many thanks for all the tutoring Wink

. I just hope I can remember how to do it again tomorrow .
The previous instructions which were pitched at muppet level were a little too advanced for me ! If anyone wants me to add in the notes to bring it down to my normal "idiots guide" approach then please just shout ( and be prepared to be bored to sleep Wink

) .

Meanwhile , where does one find the "Optimisation " which was mentioned ??? I can't see it in Photobucket Rolling Eyes

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Jack

Gidday

Is it not easier and better to just resize it in photobucket then link it to here.

To resize you get to your album and click on the "edit" thingie above the picture you want to show. That will give you the option of "resizing" then click on the option of "Message Board" then coppy and past the "IMG Code" and if I have any idea of what I am talking about it should come out like:-

quarryman

Hi Camile, we are just back from Midi Pyrenee and at no time did I hear the technical term "Muppet" used, I think you have picked up some very useful phrases in the Wesht.

Good luck with Blowin's PC but dont let him suggest that you look at his sheds as he might suggest a little work before you can go.....

Michael

Camile

Hi,

Indeed there are a few terms like that comes in handy .. and I couldn't think of anything else that would fit !

I think that shows that I spent too much time here indeed !

but we have the same one in french though .. it's "marionnette" ..

and as you might have noticed, there are plenty of occasions to use it in France too ,.,

Camile

blowin

Hi Jack , good to have you back .
It is indeed easier to do it the way you suggest but that brings the full sized picture down ( the size you have adjusted it to in Photobucket , which would be either a thumbnail or the " noticeboard " picture size ( 640 x 480 ? ) . The clickable thumbnail is quicker to download but the viewer still has the option of seeing the bigger version if he/she wants to .
I guess you wouldn't notice the difference in speed if you had even a half-way decent internet connection but the landlines here run at a heady 28.6 kbs ( whatever those are ) so it would take a while to view a post with more than a couple of pics .
There isn't a problem at the moment but , I dunno , people might start being sociable and post up a lot of xmas cards or something ! Laughing

. If that arises we might need to ask everyone to use the thumbnails but they should just carry on with whatever suits them best for now . Wink

You'd think I was after the Admin job , wouldn't you ? Laughing

Jack

Gidday

Fair enough. I had forgotten about that old slow landline stuff.

blowin

I think Eircom have forgotten about it too
but funnily enough they always remember to send their bills on time Evil or Very Mad

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