On Genesee Hill, QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

[fiona]

Dave: that looks great. when I finish my piece in the Sullivan today can the header be moved to the top of the piece?

[dgriffin]

You will have to insert it into your post.

Insert the line below at the top of your post and follow with your text beginning on the line after.

IMPORTANT:
After you insert the following line, change the X at the almost end of the line to a lower case g just inside the ending bracket.


www.windsweptpress.com/images/morning herald.jpg[/imX]


You're better off cutting and pasting the line, rather than re-typing it.

[fiona]

OK. Will do. Thanks. You're famous now!

[dgriffin]

"Man in the crowd name of Griffin." I meant to mention that I noticed that, and the man was probably a pick-pocket!

[fiona]

No. I think he was a typesetter for the Herald

[fiona]

Dave: I copied the line exactly and tried to post it, but the post box was blank.

[dgriffin]

Does the insert fit all on one line? It should. Did you replace the X with a g so that the ending looks like this?

..........images/morning herald.jpg[/img]

And there is indeed a space between morning and herald. Don't remove it.

[fiona]

sorry. the post is up. I tried again and no can do.

[dgriffin]

www.windsweptpress.com/images/morning herald.jpg[/img]


Aha! I can see what you did by quoting your post.
You put an extra period in after jpg.

You have herald.jpg.[/img]

Remove the last period so that it's
herald.jpg[/img]

[fiona]

Dave: You are like an "eye in the sky". Yes, I got it and it looks great. Now, tell me how I can move it the pic of Julia Conkling, the post of the house and the u tube of Green sleeves, so I won't have to keep bothering you??

[dgriffin]

"Now, tell me how I can move it the pic of Julia Conkling, the post of the house and the u tube of Green sleeves ....."

Fiona, try that sentence/question again?

[fiona]

how can I move items around, such as the pic of Julia Conkling, so that I won't have to keep bothering you?

[dgriffin]

If you mean, move a photo or other graphic from one thread on this forum to another, then just copy the code (like the line I gave you for the Morning Herald) and paste to another post in another thread.

Stay with me here for just a minute. Most photos or graphics used on the internet are jpgs, and they have names. A photo of Fiona might therefore be named fiona.jpg

That file has to exist somewhere on the internet in order to be used on this board. All of my stuff is in a directory called images on my web site. Therefore the way to specify the file is, for example:

images/fiona.jpg

That directory is at my website, windsweptpress.com

Therefore the full specification of the file that is the photo of fiona is

windsweptpress.com/images/fiona.jpg

Now we have to add the hypertext stuff to tell the browser to actually go and get the photo. That's the http:// stuff.

So when we specify the address of the file on the Internet, it is finally

www.windsweptpress.com/images/fiona.jpg


Specifically on Proboards, we have to tell the system to load an image from the above address. We do that by putting [ img] before the address and [ /img] after the address.


So, in your post you put the following and ....voila ... the photo shows up:

[ img]http://www.windsweptpress.com/images/fiona.jpg[/img]

(I put an extra space in the lines so they would not disappear and execute.)
Hope that helps.

[fiona]

So, Dave, let's get this straight: 1. I open up the forum post box, 2. In the thread and page I am working on( the place where I want the image to land). 3. then I type (for instance)
www.roscoeconklinghouse.com/images/jpg[/img] on the top of my post 4. and then hit the post button and the image appears? Don't I need to have the image already stored somewhere on my desk top or in a space such as photobucket, ect? I understand the process, but how does the computer find the image? What tells the computer that I want that exact image out of all the hundreds of images available?

[dgriffin]

In the following post, I am inserting a space right after the opening bracket in [ img] and [ /img]. That's so they don't execute and disappear from the text. In actual use, the space would be deleted.

First, you left off the leading [ img] in the line, which you typed:

www.roscoeconklinghouse.com/images/jpg[ /img]

There needs to be a [ img] before the address.

The stuff between the [ img] and the [ /img] IS the address of
where the photo file resides. And yes, the photo file has to be there on that server in order to show up in your post. If the photo file was on your PC, for example, you would first need to upload it to somewhere on the Internet. Photobucket is a convenient place to do that. Picassa and Flickr are also places to store photos.

But let's say the photo is just something you came across on any site. You can include that in your post as long as you can copy the address of that photo. To get the address, just RIGHT click on the photo and choose "copy image location." Then, you paste that in between the [ img] and [ /img] in your post and it will show up when you post to the thread.