Help Please

[NobleAlmasy]

can someone help me out, i want to post some wallpapers i made but i cant figure out what kinda URL i need to make, Balmung told me i needed to put my pic on a site first but it wouldnt work, how do i post an image right in the topic??

[Kaiden]

You can do that on two ways.

1) A direct link to the picture

• Upload the picture to a webserver. the picture will have an own URL. for example. "Http://www.myhost.com/myaccount/mypicture.jpg (it also can be a gif or Bmp)
• Then, get into the BBS , and write a new Topic/reply... whatever. Enter the the EXACT adress of the picture between two Tags. for example

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  [img]http://www.host.domain/youraccount/yourpicture.jpg[/img]

• The picture will appear here. But if it is a large picture, it will be a bit annoying, first to load it (it takes long) and second, that it Moves the BBS Border, if it's larger than it.

2)

• Upload the picture again, to a Webserver.
• get the exact adress of the picture
• Get into the BBS and goto "Post a reply" or "New Topic" or whatever.
• Enter

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  [url]Http://www.host.domain/youraccount/yourpicture.jpg[/url]

• Now the picture will appear as a normal link to the others, like for example like that - http://blackwings.net/hack/images/wall08-1024.jpg
• There's also the possibility to Change this Link just to the Word you like. For example

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  [Url=http://blackwings.net/hack/images/wall08-1024.jpg]Cool Wallpaper here![Url]

  then it appears like this here(click)

I hope that helped you a bit...

[NobleAlmasy]

Thanks, do you know a good "FREE" host i could use?

[Asmaria]

Any 'free' host you use will more than likely not support direct linking. You can get around this with a couple of sites by typing the link as a .txt file rather than a .gif or .jpg file. It tricks it into thinking it's just text instead of a picture that's being linked. But all free sites have popups now. Its pretty much a given. Geocities can be tricked with the .txt trick. You can also get webspace at www.8m.com, but beware, tons of popups. @_@

[NobleAlmasy]

how do i do the text trick??

[Asmaria]

Ok, first... get a picture you want. Rename the file's extention from .jpg or .gif to .txt. After you do that, upload it to Geocities. Then, when you go post a link on the board, type <img src="http://www.geocities.com/yourusernamehe ... rename.txt">
Actually... as I see that the board doesn't accept html, use the img button on the board, but just make sure that your link is listed as a .txt file. It works either way, with html or not.

It will appear as an image, because of the <img> tags telling the browser to see it that way, but geocities thinks its a text file.

[NobleAlmasy]

I'm trying to do the txt trick but it wont let me it keeps re-saving as .jpg



UPDATE:1 minute later.... oh wait i did it nevermind, is the icon suppose to change??? 0_o

Yet another UPDATE: 5 minutes later.... I can't upload it because its a txt file now, what do i do???

[Super Cindy]

Here's some free image hosting sites, in case give up on your .txt trick:

boomspeed.com, tripod.lycos.co.uk, imagemagician.com, and liquid2k.com

That's all I can think of right now, sorry.

[NobleAlmasy]

Thanks for the list, i'll keep them in mind ^_^

[Asmaria]

o_O I don't know how you're uploading it, but the file type shouldn't matter during upload. Unless of course you're telling it you're uploading a picture, and -then- clicking on the txt file. Or if you upload a picture, then you could go to geocities' file manager and just tell them to rename the file as a .txt. But anyways, yeah, if those other sites work instead, just go for that. ^^; Sorry I couldn't help.

[NobleAlmasy]

you did help, now i know the text trick, thank you very much ^_^