Posting Images

[Skuzzy]

I am not sure why, but most of you skinners are *not* using the bulletin board to host your images.  Is there a reason why?

I assume you are aware you can upload them to this forum.

The reason I ask, is I would like to show them off on our Facebook page, but cannot be assured they will always be there if they are not linked to our forum.

Right now I will copy them from your hosting site and then save them to our server so I can post them, giving full credit to the skinner, of course.

[Vraciu]

I am not sure why, but most of you skinners are using the bulletin board to host your images.  Is there a reason why?

I assume you are aware you can upload them to this forum.

The reason I ask, is I would like to show them off on our Facebook page, but cannot be assured they will always be there if they are not linked to our forum.

Right now I will copy them from your hosting site and then save them to our server so I can post them, giving full credit to the skinner, of course.

You mean are NOT using the bulletin board, right?

People seem to use Flickr and such because hosting here only puts up a link to click on rather than the image.    That's my experience any way. 

Many folks don't bother to click the link so the skin is never seen.

[Skuzzy]

Yes, "not".

When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL.  That way it shows up as an image and a link.

[Vraciu]

Yes, "not".

When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL.  That way it shows up as an image and a link.

Ah, cool.   

[Greebo]

As Vraciu said its mainly because it only showed a link in the post, I hadn't considered editing the post with the attachment address.

Perhaps a "post screenshot" button would be more intuitive though. Just enable it for this, the films and screenshots, the TE and the bugs forums.

Should the maximum size of screenshot be 1280 by 720, as per the skins submission page?

[Skuzzy]

As Vraciu said its mainly because it only showed a link in the post, I hadn't considered editing the post with the attachment address.

Perhaps a "post screenshot" button would be more intuitive though. Just enable it for this, the films and screenshots, the TE and the bugs forums.

Should the maximum size of screenshot be 1280 by 720, as per the skins submission page?

Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.

As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board.  If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.

Example:

{url=http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/big_image]{img]http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/images/small_image[/img}[/url}

I think that will do the trick.

[Vraciu]

Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.

As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board.  If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.

Example:



I think that will do the trick.

I would also suggest posting the direct link below the image.  iPads don't always show the placeholder so it appears as if nothing is there.

[Volron]

I'm on my desktop, and I don't see anything.

Editing SMF's PHP code to add buttons is a royal pain, especially when they patch the module you edited and you have to manually add the patches.

As far as the size goes, use whatever size you like on the bulletin board.  If you decide to use a large image, I would make a thumbnail, put the URL for it into the post, then add a link to the URL to the larger image.

Example:



I think that will do the trick.

But the quote box shows me why.

[Skuzzy]

It was an example.  No image actually in that link, which I had forgotten would be eaten by the SMF processing engine.  Fixed now.

Just replace the '{' and '}' with '[' and ']', respectively.

[Volron]

Ah!  Okay.

Thought I was going nutz or something, or my browser was acting up. 

[Vraciu]

Yes, "not".

When you create the link with the upload, right click and copy the URL of the link, edit your post and insert the URL.  That way it shows up as an image and a link.

The upload link doesn't point to anything.    What am I missing?

Here is the link for a file I uploaded:

[Skuzzy]

You forgot to wrap the URL in img tags.

[Vraciu]

You forgot to wrap the URL in img tags.

I tried that before with the same results.   It appears to be an IE issue as Safari displays it properly.   Go figure.

[Skuzzy]

As the image tags are digested by SMF, and never reach the browser, it should not make any difference.

[Vraciu]

As the image tags are digested by SMF, and never reach the browser, it should not make any difference.

Well, IE won't display them.  Chrome and Safari will.   There is a setting somewhere that got blown up when I reinstalled Win7.  Another reason why I've simply no choice but to move away from it. 

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