Technical forum question

[solzrules]

[?][?]I need some help here guys. I am trying to post a few pictures in the forum here and I am having trouble doing so. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Much appreciated if you can help!

[chad thomas]

First you have to have a host site. When you get one and upload photos then you cut and pase the URL then bracket the URL with img tags. I can help you once you get a host site. I use rrpicturearchives myself.

[Anonymous]

Upload the picture of your choice to a hosting site, I have found Image shack to be easy

http://imageshack.us/

After you upload your image, find the line that is labeled "Direct link to Image" and copy the text inside that box, and paste it in between the brackets that are entered here when you click on the little yellow and gray tool tab that shows the sun over two mountains up in the tool bar

Basically, you will want to enter that direct link in place of the words "your picture here" in the first line of this post (that you wil be able to see if you select "quote" as your reply means)

try it once, and if anything goes wrong, I'll help you fix it.

[solzrules]

Thanks a lot. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow when I've got more time.

[FThunder11]

I dont see yours TheAntiGates, all I see is that stupid red X

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FThunder11

I dont see yours TheAntiGates, all I see is that stupid red X

Hit "quote" as the reply means to that post, and look at the "your picture here" text between the brackets.

It was an example intended only to show him where to insert the pictures URL, not to actually display a picture.

That's why it's better for him to just try it, and then we can point out anything he did wrong (always fun to do that, e'hhhh?) Rather than trying to discuss a process that forum mechanix will not allow us to display textually.

[Anonymous]

Hereyou go Solz just do this, where the characters in black are forum code, and the characters in red are the link address to the image hosted at a remote location:

[solzrules]

Did this work? Do you see a picture?

[solzrules]

I don't get the whole thing with image shack. Do they just store your picture online for an indefinite period of time? How do I find that image again when I go back to look for it?

[espeefoamer]

I see a picture,now.Cool! A MILW bicentennial unit.(SD40-2?)

[solzrules]

Yeah. It was a great paint job!

[solzrules]

Okay I got this thing to work! Thanks guys!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules

I don't get the whole thing with image shack. Do they just store your picture online for an indefinite period of time? How do I find that image again when I go back to look for it?

Congratulations man, it works, [8D]


What I aways do with Image shack, is to copy the "direct link to image" address, and then paste it into a browser address box, and hit"enter"


Then I bookmark that url into a special folder in my browser tool bar, just for images.

I wouldn't depend on image shack for archiving important files, they could go out of business tomorrow, and then I'd be S.O.L.

I just use it cause it's conveniant.

Nice RR tie by the way. I used to snap them over my knee, but I kept ruining my blue jeans with creosote stains. [}:)]

[solzrules]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules

I don't get the whole thing with image shack. Do they just store your picture online for an indefinite period of time? How do I find that image again when I go back to look for it?

Congratulations man, it works, [8D]


What I aways do with Image shack, is to copy the "direct link to image" address, and then paste it into a browser address box, and hit"enter"


Then I bookmark that url into a special folder in my browser tool bar, just for images.

I wouldn't depend on image shack for archiving important files, they could go out of business tomorrow, and then I'd be S.O.L.

I just use it cause it's conveniant.

Nice RR tie by the way. I used to snap them over my knee, but I kept ruining my blue jeans with creosote stains. [}:)]

LOL! My wife and I are both laughing at that one![(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates
[Nice RR tie by the way. I used to snap them over my knee, but I kept ruining my blue jeans with creosote stains. [}:)]

You had to use your knee? [:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules


LOL! My wife and I are both laughing at that one![(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

So you live up there near the PCE? Must be nice, I'll bet it's beautiful up there.

[solzrules]

No, I live in SE WI. I followed the PCE on my honeymoon, and in the process you are right. We saw some of the most beautiful, undisturbed country you could imagine. We drove for hours in the back country around Avery in the moutains on forest access roads and didn't see people at all. It was kind of scary yet majestic at the same time. Then we went to Durango, Colorado for the second half of the honeymoon (wife's idea). We were met with Wal-Marts, Targets, Burger King's, McDonald's and all kinds of other not-really-interesting craft stores. (I called them crap stores) I guess Colorado sold out in a huge way in the Rockies, because there were houses everywhere you looked. It didn't really have that Rocky Mountain charm, you know? Oh well. Progress, right?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules

Oh well. Progress, right?

All progress is change, but not all change is progress, I guess

I think that the "trick" to colorado is in knowing about places that have not (yet) become popular.


US 24 east (compass south-southeast) of Vail is real nice, and not yet spoiled I doubt seriously if one could just run out and buy into most of that area, probably have to wait on an existing owner to die, or something, but it's a nice place to visit. (I lived in Denver for a while back in the 80's, liked it, then went back to visit in 2003, and really didn't like what had become of it, but anywhere around Leadville is pretty nice.

Personally, I find a certain romance in "desolate" ...if I had unlimited funds I'd try to build my retreat someplace close to the San Rafael Swell, or Capitol Reef in central Utah. Truck in all my water, incinerate my sewage, and just live at the end of a 50 mile long drive way where you can see visitors coming for 45 minutes before they arrive, THAT would be my ideal place.

[solzrules]

I agree 100% with you there. I have been to Leadville, and I loved the place. What I love most is the history behind the mining and the narrow gauge railroads around there. (Durango and Silverton) They are great places to go a learn about the history, but you are right. When a place becomes popular it tends to pimp out to the national 'big box' stores and it loses it's charm. I can go to Wal-Mart here. I don't need to go to Colorado for that. Also, I have noticed that western Colorado is largely untouched yet. You can still drive on the back roads and get a sense of being out in the middle of nowhere. I didn't get that impression within 100 miles of Denver. It really is too bad. Sometimes these politicians see the potential taxes from these big stores and they tend to forget about keeping things real for the people who voted them in.

[Murphy Siding]

Hey solzrules-at work I have to wear a tie. Can I borrow one of yours?[:p]

[solzrules]

That might get a tad heavy for you! It would look cool though.....hmmmm maybe?

[blhanel]

FInd a warped one, and you'd have a "bow" tie!