picture questions

[Anonymous]

ho do you post pictures in your topic.?

[leighant]

I have (free) web space at www.railimages.com. I upload images to that site and check what filename any given picture has.

I access my entire gallery of pictures by typing on my address line: http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kennethanthony

When I want to put a picture on a BULLETIN BOARD like this one, I either type the URL so somebody can click it to see the picture. I often do this in order to give a viewer a chance to decide whether or not they want to see. A slow-loading picture someone doesn't particularly care to see would tie up someone's enjoyment of a thread.

If I want a picture to show up automatically when my message is displayed, I type square bracket [, then img, then ] then no space between the brack and the http://www.railimages.com/albums/whatever your railimages name is/filename.jpg and then with no space, I put at the end another brack [, and slash sign / which tells the program this is ending an instruction, then another img and a bracket ].

(I made up a format to show you how I would type a URL, and the webpage program automatically colors what it "thinks" is the URL because it recognizes the format of characters. But if you click on www.railimages.com/albums/whatever you will get a message that says there isn't any such page...)

I would show you but if I type the magic combination here, the web page will not display what I type, rather it will follow the instruction, make what I type invisible, and show up the picture.

www.railimages.com gives pretty clear instructions. I don't think you can post a picture directly on this site from your computer without having the picture on a web site on a server somewhere.