From the Teknoguild: posting images

[Elspeth]

In my travels through the various messages and threads, I find many people having trouble with posting images. The great red birds, the Agyllians, have often commented that none are so blind as those that cannot see and we mustn't doubt their wisdom, no matter how irrelevant it may seem.

Being a dutiful Guildmistress, I have consulted the Teknoguilders on how to best deal with this problem. According to Garth, the first thing you must know is that many free web-hosts (whatever they may be - Garth says they be some form of beforetime propogator of trivial information)... goodness me, my mind wanders further than Maruman in a delirium... Many free web-hosts, I say, do not allow a thing called 'remote linking'. In other words, Garth says, you cannot put the url...

Garth: For the love of lore-keeping, that's U-R-L!

Elspeth: It doesn't signify, for I don't know what it means anyway. Go away.

You cannot put the URL of your image in your signature or your avatar or on your message and expect to have the image appear. It might appear on your computer, if you have been to your webpage already. This is something to do with caching. I know about caches and they usually hold highly destructive weapons, so I'd stay away from them if I were you.

The names of these web-hosts may be GeoCities or FreeWebs or Tripod. None of them will be of any assistance to you.

The good news is that there are many places in your beforetime that offer to host images for free. Two go by the strange names PhotoBucket or fotopic. Apparently, you can find them here www.photobucket.com and here www.fotopic.net. Once you have put your images on these hosts, you will be able to see the pictures here with no problems.

And that will be the last time I ever ask the Teknoguild to explain something to me. I have a headache.

[Lix]

who was hearing voices when they wrote that one? p.s. u can wipe this message. im just being a smart ass

[Elspeth]

What do you mean 'hearing voices'? I always hear voices. I'm a FARSEEKER.



Elspeth
[glow=white,2,300]Master of Obernewtyn[/glow]

[Lix]

pmsl i only just read that reply
was that u min?

[Min]

I wish t'were I, but alas, I'm not that witty.
*cough* wait. Elspeth is a valid member in her own rights.

short answer = no

[Elspeth]

An update on image hosts

Any image host that gives your image a random name made from numbers will no longer work at ProBoards. For instance, image hosts such as Greatest Journal will often put something like this at the end of your image: 1028939/123978812. Unfortunately, this means your image is lacking the vital tag at the end that tells ProBoards that it's either a jpeg, gif or png. And if ProBoards doesn't recognise the image file type, then it doesn't display the image.

So, stick to image hosts that let you keep the name of your images, complete with the tag on the end.

If you have any questions about images or need some help, then make your way to the Image Help thread for all the assistance you can need (along with people wearing some dàmn fine hats...).

[Clare]

Update on Fotopic

Fotopic does allow remote hosting and does provide an address with the appropriate .jpg tag at the end of the randomly allocated number. To find this link you will need to go the "Edit Collection" page, click on the image you want and then select the "Info" option in the top menu. In the Reference section of Info there will be a direct link eg. images.fotopic.net/y1obn3.jpg

[Elspeth]

Thank-you, good Bathmat, and many apologies to Fotopic, who I just lumped in with the Greatest Journal image host without any justification, really. I've updated the posts above with this newly-acquired information.