Adding a picture to a post ... (Read 2276 times)

 

Is this the starting line for the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon ("Now, walk the plank!")?

Yes.

But on race day the plank is on a boat surrounded by sharks with laser beams on their heads. If you survive that, then the hills will likely get you. If you somehow survive the hills, the flying monkeys will get you. There is technically no need for a finish line - but Trent puts one in anyway to give people false hope.

  testing

Just practicing.

I've tried using flickr and all I get is the box with the red X. On flickr I've tried pasting using the Grab the link url and also tried using the Grab the html. Neither works for me. I've also tried by linking to my FB photo. No luck. What am I doing wrong?

You have to have a url that points to a picture on the web, not to a page with a picture, but the picture itself.  As a check, the url, no matter how long, must end with .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif.  The following url works:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Boeing_B-52G_in_flight_061026-F-1234S-021.jpg/250px-Boeing_B-52G_in_flight_061026-F-1234S-021.jpg

This one, however, does not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash

(Just chose Wikipedia's story of the day.)

So, if you're posting something from a web page, make sure you get just the image showing in your browser; no banner, no menus, no text at all; just the image; then copy that url.  If you're using Tinypic or Flickr, make sure they give you the image url, not the page's url.

MTA: In Firefox, right-click on the picture and select View Image.  In Chrome, it's Open Image in New Tab.  In IE, hmm, I guess it's harder.  Looks like you have to select Properties and copy the address (URL).

hth

in addition to Led's post, if you're a Ubuntu user with Chromium as your browser, it's right-click and then Copy Image URL.

i just chose this completely random thread image by way of example:

Firefox > Right-click > Copy Image location