Texana
03-20-2005, 11:04 PM
It has come to my attention that we need to set some standards to our picture posting .....
In the subject line please add Photo in the subject line.
Pictures need to be limited to 4 per post.
All pictures must be sized to 640 x 480 pixels or smaller.
Ideal picture posting would be to just list the url and people can click on the link to see the picture. If picture control is not kept under control we may request that this is the only way to post. For now lets see if the smaller and fewer pics will help.
There have been 2 major problems with picture posting.
( 1 ) Size ... to large and it messes up the thread for a lot of people. We can all enjoy a small complete picture vs a large pic that must be scrolled. Once it is that large then we must also scroll just to read text msgs ... this is not cool.
( 2 ) Speed ... we must remember that not everyone in our Q family has DSL, Cable or other high speed access. There are still many with dialup. For those of you who might have forgotten those days, large pictures are very very slow loading. For those who never suffered dialup ... consider yourselves blessed. By adding Photo in the subject line you will be warning people there are photos in the post and it will give them the opportunity not to open if they do not or can not wait for the photos to load.
Effective immediately (March 21, 2005) if these rules are not followed the post will be deleted. I will notify anyone upon deletion of their post and the reason it was deleted.
If you have issues with sizing ... ask and there are plenty of people who will help. If you dont want to resize ... cool ... there are plenty of offsite hosting places available ... find one and use it.
If you feel the need to discuss this post please send me a PM.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
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Added by TexasBlake on 7/28/2006
Directions using Microsft Internet Exploder:
Choose owhatever picture you want to post, right click it, and then choose Properties.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage1.jpg
The next screen brings up information about the picture. You will need to highlight with your mouse curser after Address (URL) and copy it by either right click copy or CTRL-C.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage2.jpg
Then go into the text box on the forum. Wherever you want your picture you will need to either type bracketIMGbracket, then right click paste (or CTRL-V)before the picture then bracket-backslash-img-bracket. Or you can click the little Img box before you put the link and then once again after.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage3.jpg
Your post will now display the picture.
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Directioins for using Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) (less steps, another reason Firefox is thebetter browser) or Opera (http://www.opera.com/).
Choose owhatever picture you want to post, right click it, and then choose Copy Image Location.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/ffgarage1.jpg
Then go into the text box on the forum. Wherever you want your picture you will need to either type bracketIMGbracket, then right click paste (or CTRL-V)before the picture then bracket-backslash-img-bracket. Or you can click the little Img box before you put the link and then once again after.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/ffgarage2.jpg
In the subject line please add Photo in the subject line.
Pictures need to be limited to 4 per post.
All pictures must be sized to 640 x 480 pixels or smaller.
Ideal picture posting would be to just list the url and people can click on the link to see the picture. If picture control is not kept under control we may request that this is the only way to post. For now lets see if the smaller and fewer pics will help.
There have been 2 major problems with picture posting.
( 1 ) Size ... to large and it messes up the thread for a lot of people. We can all enjoy a small complete picture vs a large pic that must be scrolled. Once it is that large then we must also scroll just to read text msgs ... this is not cool.
( 2 ) Speed ... we must remember that not everyone in our Q family has DSL, Cable or other high speed access. There are still many with dialup. For those of you who might have forgotten those days, large pictures are very very slow loading. For those who never suffered dialup ... consider yourselves blessed. By adding Photo in the subject line you will be warning people there are photos in the post and it will give them the opportunity not to open if they do not or can not wait for the photos to load.
Effective immediately (March 21, 2005) if these rules are not followed the post will be deleted. I will notify anyone upon deletion of their post and the reason it was deleted.
If you have issues with sizing ... ask and there are plenty of people who will help. If you dont want to resize ... cool ... there are plenty of offsite hosting places available ... find one and use it.
If you feel the need to discuss this post please send me a PM.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
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Added by TexasBlake on 7/28/2006
Directions using Microsft Internet Exploder:
Choose owhatever picture you want to post, right click it, and then choose Properties.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage1.jpg
The next screen brings up information about the picture. You will need to highlight with your mouse curser after Address (URL) and copy it by either right click copy or CTRL-C.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage2.jpg
Then go into the text box on the forum. Wherever you want your picture you will need to either type bracketIMGbracket, then right click paste (or CTRL-V)before the picture then bracket-backslash-img-bracket. Or you can click the little Img box before you put the link and then once again after.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/iegarage3.jpg
Your post will now display the picture.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Directioins for using Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) (less steps, another reason Firefox is thebetter browser) or Opera (http://www.opera.com/).
Choose owhatever picture you want to post, right click it, and then choose Copy Image Location.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/ffgarage1.jpg
Then go into the text box on the forum. Wherever you want your picture you will need to either type bracketIMGbracket, then right click paste (or CTRL-V)before the picture then bracket-backslash-img-bracket. Or you can click the little Img box before you put the link and then once again after.
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/images/faq/ffgarage2.jpg