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larryfulkerson
27 May 06, 18:47
I've had a request to show/tell how to post a picture in your reply(s) here.

First of all go to http://imageshack.us/ (it's a favorite bookmark on my computer ). Next click on the browse button to navigate to the picture you want to show:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7183/imageshack5xh.gif

Then click on the "Host it" button and you'll get ( eventually ) another screen that looks like this:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3425/imageshack26id.gif

The name of the file can be imbedded in your post(s) like I have done here by putting "[i m g ]" before the name of the file ( without the quotes and no spaces ) and putting "[/ i m g ]" ( again without the quotes and no spaces ) after the name of the file.

Supose this:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/108losses89ku.jpg

is the name that you get from imageshack.us. All you gotta do is put this in your post:

[ i m g ]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/108losses89ku.jpg[ / i m g ]

( but the [ i m g ] and [ / i m g ]should have no spaces in it.
I'm spacing it here so it doesn't post the picture, so you can see the text instead )




That's it. Have fun posting pictures.
L`zard
02 Jun 06, 23:22
Good work, Larry;

I'd already thought to try this for the simple posting of general pix for other forums but this gives new impetus!

"That man, there, Well Done"!
Veers
23 Sep 06, 18:47
Bump.

As we've all been given limits on how much we can have in attachements on the site, this becomes all the more important, as it saves us and, I think, SZO. So, if you need to post pictures, but don't have any atachements room, this thread, kindly posted by Larry, will walk you through posting a picture in your thread, without the need to attach it, step-by-step.
Bloodstar
23 Sep 06, 18:57
Bump.

As we've all been given limits on how much we can have in attachements on the site, this becomes all the more important, as it saves us and, I think, SZO. So, if you need to post pictures, but don't have any atachements room, this thread, kindly posted by Larry, will walk you through posting a picture in your thread, without the need to attach it, step-by-step.


They should sticky this.
Veers
23 Sep 06, 19:27
They should sticky this.
I agree. (insert longer answer here)
Bloodstar
25 Sep 06, 17:09
I agree. (insert longer answer here)

We must attract atention of DerWanderModerator :laugh:

How to do this... Maybe to whisper "we penetrated Maginot line with single Panzer I!", or to say Napoleon was drunkard! etc... :o


Mario

EDIT: and this made me Commando hehe
Don Maddox
25 Sep 06, 18:05
There is a link all the way at the bottom left of the forum that says IMG. Click on that and it shows you how to do all sorts of things.
Veers
25 Sep 06, 21:00
There is a link all the way at the bottom left of the forum that says IMG. Click on that and it shows you how to do all sorts of things.
Good point, Don! :)
However, it doesn't say anything about using somewhere else to host the picture...So it doesn't let people know that they can have basically unlimited pictures in their threads, without taking up SZO bandwidth...

EDIT: Or at least I didn't see it, which is possible, I didn't go over it with a fine toothed comb. :laugh:
Don Maddox
25 Sep 06, 22:47
However, it doesn't say anything about using somewhere else to host the picture...So it doesn't let people know that they can have basically unlimited pictures in their threads, without taking up SZO bandwidth...



No, it shows you exactly how to do what Larry did in his initial post to this thread. People do it all the time all over the forum. The method does, however, have one nasty drawback: the images don't last forever. What I mean is, when those images are removed from whatever server they reside on, all you are going to see in the forum is a red "X" where the image should be. We don't have any control over that since the poster linked to an external file.
Veers
26 Sep 06, 15:17
No, it shows you exactly how to do what Larry did in his initial post to this thread. People do it all the time all over the forum. The method does, however, have one nasty drawback: the images don't last forever. What I mean is, when those images are removed from whatever server they reside on, all you are going to see in the forum is a red "X" where the image should be. We don't have any control over that since the poster linked to an external file.
My bad. :) Hopefully Imageshack will keep the pictures up there till they go out of business like they say...:) Hehe
Heldenkaiser
06 Oct 06, 10:16
Of course, one can always just insert images hosted on one's own webspace. - No limits then, nor can they disappear. :)
Veers
04 Jun 07, 01:57
This is how I do it, Bdr.
Bdr.Mallette
09 Jun 07, 23:27
Once again,

thanks a lot guys.
Larry, once again, good job man.
I think I gave ya a rep. point for that the other week back.
(last week, short form)


heheh.... I'm going to try and do a full AAR for EA CoW...but keep it normal, not like the one I did for Op.Roundup...lol. I guess that one got weird...plus I didn't really take that scenario that serious....
Mantis
11 Jun 07, 15:24
Can't wait to read it! EA AAR's are my personal fave... (Obviously!)

:clown:
Veers
11 Jun 07, 19:05
Yeah, gotta love AARs. I have, I think, an interesting new way of doing an AAR and will be posting the AAR of the desert Campaign in my game against Mark...eventually.
Veers
09 Nov 07, 23:38
Bump for macgregr.
macgregr
10 Nov 07, 18:51
Thanks Veers. I didn't notice that there are options for doing that on GSF. I guess the other website will allow me to make them visible. At any rate, let me know what you think. I'm hoping to take Moscow and Leningrad next year, though I don't know what to expect from the Soviet reserves. 80% shock for perhaps the entire winter just for Germany seems like someone is using it to balance too much. Is it like this for every winter? I'd of thought the Germans adapted better.