how do you put pics on the site

[bike nut]

Hi.I am trying to put pics on the site and am not having any luck.I just got a new laptop.What is the best way to do this?

[twigg]

Load the pics onto a hosting service like photobucket.

 

Copy the http link to the pic.

 

Hit the "insert image" box in the above fields and paste in the link.

[MidlifeVenture]

When you click post reply scroll down click manage attachment choose files and upload

[Freebird]

Yes, you don't have to host them anywhere. Just click on "manage attachments" as stated above and you upload them directly from your computer to here. Just make sure that they aren't too large. They should be resized to no larger than 640 x 480 and a maximum of 200,000 bytes.

[dingy]

Here is a link detailing how to do it with either all the pictures at the bottom (post # 4 in thread), or to have them in the body of the text with text between pictures (post # 6 in thread)

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?p=422477

 

Either way they need to be 800x600 or smaller, I believe.

 

Gary

[bike nut]

Thanks guys for the quick reply.I put a pic of my new exhaust but I should have resized it.Better luck next time.

[twigg]

If you host them elsewhere you are not restricted by size. Neither do you have to re-size your pictures yourself.

 

The software re-sizes the picture to fit the Forum. but there is a clickable bar that takes you to the original and that is limited only by the hosting service.

 

It's better for showing detail AND it is the only way to add pictures to the text.

[dingy]

It's better for showing detail AND it is the only way to add pictures to the text.

 

This is incorrect.

 

The 2 pictures below were attached through the Manage Attachments screen. Then put in line using the paper clip icon in the top row of message screen. See link I showed above for more details on this procedure.

 

This picture is full view of wheel.

[ATTACH]64598[/ATTACH]

 

This one is a closeup of caliper attachment to brake arm (needs modified for 298mm rotors)

[ATTACH]64599[/ATTACH]

 

Gary

Edited February 27, 2012 by dingy
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[twigg]

'k

 

I'll quit trying to be helpful.

 

There are a few things I need to quit doing ... I'll add this to the list.

 

"Thanks Steve. Yeah, what you said works but there is another way .... "

 

See how that works?

[Freebird]

OK, there are several ways of doing it. They all work and there are advantages and disadvantages to all.

 

That being said, this is the reason that I prefer the pictures be uploaded here instead of linked from a remote site. There have been a number of times over the years when people have posted some very good technical articles. Great write-ups and complete with pictures. Then a few months or years down the road, the original author of the articles either moved on to another bike and left here or simply came to the point where they needed more space or whatever in their photobucket or wherever they had uploaded the pictures. Either forgetting or no longer caring that they had linked them to a post here, they deleted the pictures at the remote site. What we are left with then is something that used to be a very helpful tech article and is now just some words that don't make a lot of sense when they are referencing pictures that are now just red x's.

 

I have have spent a good bit of time over the years going through and either deleting or rebuilding articles that were rendered completely useless due to the fact that the remotely hosted pictures were no longer available.

 

Therefore, at least for technical posts that many here might find useful for years to come, I prefer that the pictures but uploaded to VentureRider.org and not linked to remote sites.

[ventourer]

I never knew the pics I delete from webshots are no longer displayed

 

on sites that they were posted on.

 

A good way to destroy the evidence???

yammer 2k1

http://thumb16.webshots.net/t/82/182/1/29/14/2789129140106518856lSyEmh_th.jpg

[dreamerjoe]

This is incorrect.

 

The 2 pictures below were attached through the Manage Attachments screen. Then put in line using the paper clip icon in the top row of message screen. See link I showed above for more details on this procedure.

 

This picture is full view of wheel.

[ATTACH]64598[/ATTACH]

 

This one is a closeup of caliper attachment to brake arm (needs modified for 298mm rotors)

[ATTACH]64599[/ATTACH]

 

Gary

 

If you could Dingy, where would one find these calipers and mounting arms?!! Thanks a million!!

[Wanderer]

I for one am glad this came up again as I've been doing it the hard way for ever.