Post by rpspiker on May 8, 2009 11:52:21 GMT 8
First, you need a pic you want to put up, that's not too big on your computer screen and doesn't take five mins to load. Ones that end in .jpg or .gif work best (gifs can be animated - the avatars that move are gifs). Smaller pics are best. Often downloaded pics are OK because someone already made them 'net friendly' for you.
Photobucket is probably the most popular place for storing photos to link to. I just checked them out -
hey, they have tutorials on how to get around their site, here you go -->
www.photobucket.com/tutorials/upload_single/up.html
Ok, once you've got that sorted:
To put a pic into your post (or your sig, same steps) copy the Img field from your photobucket page and paste it into your post. If you're not using Photobucket, you post the address of the image inside image tags.
Eg. the picture is here - how to make it display? www.davidbowie.com/users/Vicious/jcrane-straitavatar109x150.jpg
Wrap it in some image tags by clicking on the wee pic in a white frame icon or type in
[ img ]http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/206/logo5bm2.gif [ /img ]
...and if I take out the spaces you get:
Photobucket is probably the most popular place for storing photos to link to. I just checked them out -
hey, they have tutorials on how to get around their site, here you go -->www.photobucket.com/tutorials/upload_single/up.html
Ok, once you've got that sorted:
To put a pic into your post (or your sig, same steps) copy the Img field from your photobucket page and paste it into your post. If you're not using Photobucket, you post the address of the image inside image tags.
Eg. the picture is here - how to make it display? www.davidbowie.com/users/Vicious/jcrane-straitavatar109x150.jpg
Wrap it in some image tags by clicking on the wee pic in a white frame icon or type in
[ img ]http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/206/logo5bm2.gif [ /img ]
...and if I take out the spaces you get:
