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#1 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:55 pm

I'm belatedly putting together clues for my next game, and I thought it would be neat to add some visual clues. (Especially for artists.) How can I insert a picture into a post in the right place? Thanks.
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#2 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:04 pm

franktangredi wrote:I'm belatedly putting together clues for my next game, and I thought it would be neat to add some visual clues. (Especially for artists.) How can I insert a picture into a post in the right place? Thanks.

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#3 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:05 pm

if you can find the image on the net you can link to it by copying the url and clicking the IMG button and inserting the url. The IMG button gives you this with out the spaces [ i m g ] insert url here [/ i m g ]
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#4 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:09 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:if you can find the image on the net you can link to it by copying the url and clicking the IMG button and inserting the url. The IMG button gives you this with out the spaces [ i m g ] insert url here [/ i m g ]
Okay, testing, testing:

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IT WORKED! THANKS!
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#5 Post by BackInTex » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:19 pm

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#6 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:46 pm

BackInTex wrote:Mona Lisa, Leonardo De Vinci


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#7 Post by Jeemie » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:54 pm

A word of caution.

You really ought to save any picture you wish to post to a place like photobucket.

The reason is that when you do an image tag of a picture on a website, IIRC, you are using the bandwidth of that website to post it here.

And technically, that's stealing bandwidth.
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#8 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:56 pm

Jeemie wrote:A word of caution.

You really ought to save any picture you wish to post to a place like photobucket.

The reason is that when you do an image tag of a picture on a website, IIRC, you are using the bandwidth of that website to post it here.

And technically, that's stealing bandwidth.
Oh, dear. I don't want to do that. But why is saving it someplace else different?

And what's a photobucket?

[Actually, I'm not even sure what a bandwidth is....]
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#9 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:08 pm

franktangredi wrote:
Jeemie wrote:A word of caution.

You really ought to save any picture you wish to post to a place like photobucket.

The reason is that when you do an image tag of a picture on a website, IIRC, you are using the bandwidth of that website to post it here.

And technically, that's stealing bandwidth.
Oh, dear. I don't want to do that. But why is saving it someplace else different?

And what's a photobucket?

[Actually, I'm not even sure what a bandwidth is....]
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#10 Post by smilergrogan » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:27 pm

Frank Tangredi, The Bandwidth Bandit

I've been working on one for awhile too, but it still has a way to go. (In the meantime, I know of a game that is not quite finished yet, available in the Bored Reference thread...)
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#11 Post by kayrharris » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:49 pm

Frank, photobucket is just a website to download your photos. Go to photobucket.com and open and account (it's free). It's very easy from there. Good luck!
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#12 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:37 pm

Jeemie wrote:A word of caution.

You really ought to save any picture you wish to post to a place like photobucket.

The reason is that when you do an image tag of a picture on a website, IIRC, you are using the bandwidth of that website to post it here.

And technically, that's stealing bandwidth.
Come to think of it ... since the site itself has a mechanism for inserting pictures from URLs, can it actually be illegal?
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#13 Post by moonie » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:13 pm

Bandwidth


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#14 Post by Jeemie » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:18 pm

franktangredi wrote:
Jeemie wrote:A word of caution.

You really ought to save any picture you wish to post to a place like photobucket.

The reason is that when you do an image tag of a picture on a website, IIRC, you are using the bandwidth of that website to post it here.

And technically, that's stealing bandwidth.
Oh, dear. I don't want to do that. But why is saving it someplace else different?

And what's a photobucket?

[Actually, I'm not even sure what a bandwidth is....]
Photobucket.com

And don't worry- you won't go to jail for it- just that if a certain image is popular, it could slow down the site if too many people do an image tag to it.

I think...I could be wrong on this.

All I know is, i used to just image tag everything until someone told me I shouldn't, so now I use photobucket (for the most part- sometimes I'm lazy).
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