What do I do with thin sliced beef chuck (spencer steak)?!?! Community Forums - p1

Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:38 am

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How to post pictures in forum threads.

To post pictures into a forum you must upload it
to a website that allows linking to it. Either by getting a free hosting site or a paying account with one. Free sites are great but they only allow you to upload a certain number of pictures and only allow you a certain amount of bandwidth per day. Consider bandwidth as viewing. The more your picture is viewed the more bandwidth you use. When your bandwidth is used up your picture turns into the little box with a Red X in it until the next day when you start over again fresh. If you do a lot of picture posting
you can always use more than just one free site tho. (I use three). You have to register in all of them but that's no problem. Just remember to keep track of your user name and password.

Below I've put some links to some of the free sites. You can check them out to see which one, or more, suits your needs. Each one has a different limit as to the amount of pics, bandwidth, size, etc in its free section.
You'll want to look closely at the FAQ's to get an idea as to how the site operates. I also advise you to have a graphics editor program, or use MSPaint, in order to resize your picture if need be. Each site has a limit as to the bytes you can d/l per picture. This must be done before you can Upload. Several will do this automatically for you.

http://www.imageshack.us/
http://photobucket.com/
http://www.snapfish.com/
http://www.villagephotos.com/
http://www.walagata.com/
http://www.imagecave.com/
http://www.thefilebin.com/
http://www.myonlineimages.com/
http://www.imgzone.info/
http://www.imagelink.org/
http://www.watotron.com/watupload/

Once you have chosen your website to use, the rest is
pretty easy to do to post your pic to a Food.com thread.

If you are on a website and like a picture or a graphics just Right click on it and click on Save Picture As and d/l it to a special place on your pc. If you already have a picture on your pc your all set as well.

Most of the sites above work the same way. You log in and go to your photos or album and then:

1. Locate the link to Upload A Picture and click on it.
2. Click on Browse and locate the picture on your pc.
3. Double click on it and then click Upload.
4. Each site will vary a bit but you want to find the picture you uploaded and find it's URL. Some may have more than one type.
If so look for the one that says to use with forums, boards, ebay, etc.
If they show [ ], { }, or whatever, choose the one with the [ ] brackets.
Some will have a link to Copy URL with the picture, if so click on that.
That copies it to your clipboard to use on Food.com. Others you may have to Highlight and Copy the URL under the picture, once again saving it to your clipboard.
5. Once you have the URL copied go the Food.com thread you want to insert the picture at.
6. Click on Reply or Quote, whichever is appropriate, and at the top of the message box Click on Image. This will put [img] in the message box.
7. Now Click just after [img] and paste in your URL. Be sure there is no space.
8. Now Click the Image button again. This will put [/img] after your URL. Again make sure you have no spaces from start to finish. A space will break the link and it won't work.
9. You can now type anything you wish on a new line down.
10. Click on Post to send it, or Click on Preview to see how your picture will look on the thread. After a Preview, Click on Post.
11. You are now done and can go back to the thread.