Posting
 

You guys were very helpful in telling me how to get my pictures from the camera to the PC. They now are there. However, I still do not know how to post. I was referred to a link that uses a figure I do not know how to print. It is like a backward 3 attached to a small t. Would it be possible to simply tell me how to post?

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Re: Posting
 

That is a capital 'E' connected to a small 't', which is Latin. The post itself, IIRC, used that glyph followed by 'c', which would stand for 'et cetera', 'and the rest'.

You might also notice that the Et glyph looks remarkably simiar to the & symbol; this is not a coincidence.

O.K., I got as far as the major gibberish put up by the monkeys at Redmond. It did not give me the option of ctrl-whatever. I could only say O.K. or cancel. I tried it again and it changed the address. I still couldn't ctrl anything. I also don't know what a img tag is. Also, I tried the link for more help and it didn't work.

An img tag is a tag that tells the vbulletin software the URL included is a picture and it displays an image. When you create a thread, under the subject line is a series of buttons. One of those buttons is IMG. This button will add the img tag to your post.

O.K., it is like a foreign lauguage to me. Still, I've got to do it. How can I get the image to go anywhere? I am stuck. After saying O.K. to the link nothing happens. How do I do the Ctrl move as requested? I have my picture--the first of my attempt to show how great a 55 year old woman can look and how pretty O.K. a 71 year old man can look--in my msn group. It is downloaded and ready to post, but I do not know how to move it from that spot.

move it? what do you mean move it? Once you have it uploaded to your (I am assuming) MSN group, it's ready to be hotlinked.

I am certain you have never met anyone as non-knowledgeable in computers than I. I can do all kinds of things with programs such as Exel and Word but I don't even understand jargon in the computer world. (Most people in their 70s don't). What is "hotlinked" and how do you do it? I really do appreciate the time you and others have taken to try to educate me.

'hotlinking' is when you have a URL (uniform resource locator) that you 'link' to via the [img] tag (in vB code).

so, to 'hotlink' a picture, is simply referring to this

[*img]http://www.somehost.com/files/blahblah001.jpg[*/img]
(without! the asterisks)

it's simply a link pointing to an image file (jpg, gif, png, bmp) within the [img] code, which the board 'interprets' as an image link.

hope that makes sense? :)

hiya dale. i figured that since it's my post you're having problems understanding, i should poke my head in and see how you're doing.

SiN's explaination is pretty simple, but i'm gonna bring it down another notch because you're technology-impaired.

from step one to the end.

1. person takes a picture with their digital camera or film camera

2. person uploads that picture from their digital camera or develops the film and scans a print of that picture into their computer

the picture is now a file, most commonly a jpeg (don't know what it stands for, but it's the most common file type)

3. person takes that file and uploads it onto a host. the host is a provider that allows content to be made available online. it's like a big hard drive that the whole internet can access, just like you can access your computer's hard drive at home.

4. person finds the address to that file that's been uploaded to the server. that address is the URL that SiN is talking about

5. person inserts that address into a piece of code that allows it to be hotlinked to wherever you want it to be displayed - that's the IMG code blocks that SiN is talking about

6. picture is displayed online, parties ensue, celebration commences, and perhaps fornication is acheived.

does that spell it out for you dale? i knwo i get a little verbose in my explaination, but i've tried to keep it as simple as possible. if you are still having problems or are still kind've foggy as to what the hell is going on, feel free to continue posting to this thread or to private message (PM) me. click the PM button directly below this text and it'll send you to a page where you can compose a message that will be sent directly to me.

new post, a repsonse to your last post

once you've uploaded your picture to the host, it's sitting there waiting for you to link it. a few things you have to do.

1. right click the picture and go to the properties selection

2. within the new properties window that has just come up, there is a selection titles Address (URL). to the right of that is a long line. now once you have that entire address highlighted (as instructed by my tutorial), you need to press two buttons on yoru keyboard at once. first press and hold the ctrl button, then press the C key. this is an instruction for your computer to Copy (hence the C) the highlighted selection onto the clipboard. think of the clipboard as a holding area for temporary information.

3. once you've Copied the selection, you need to go to wherever it is you want to put the picture and Paste the selection. to do that, place your cursor in the text window (so that the blinking line is in there), then press and hold the ctrl button again and press the V key. for some outlandish reason, V is the key for pasting. if you've done this right, you should see the entire address for the picture (if you're using MSN it's gonna be long and confusing, but if you highlighted it as i instructed you to, it should be correct).

4. in the beginning of that big address, enter the beginning IMG block, just like SiN showed, exactly like she put it but without the asterisk. in the end of the big address, enter the closing IMG block, again, just like SiN did, but without the asterisk.

5. press the submit button and if you did everything correctly, you should see the picture, hotlinked as it should be. if you didn't, you'll know real quickly. let me know and we'll walk through it.