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In Reply to: Boy, that was soooo clear..Thanks!!! {:-)) posted by Kurt G on December 23, 2000 at 15:24:41:
1) Take pictures of your car with a digital camera or scan your photographs with a scanner (go to Kinko's if you don't own a scanner). Put the pictures in a directory on your computer.
2) Subscribe to a picture posting web site. One that you can send your pictures to and they'll post them for the world to see. Photopoint.com is one example, but there are lot's of them. Upload the pictures you want to share. These sites are good about giving directions on how to do stuff like making different picture albums and changing the picture captions.
2) Once your pictures are on a web site, click over to your picture. Copy the web address (URL - Universal Resource Locator) of the picture, which is in the box at the top of your browser (Netscape or Explorer or such) and has a format like "http://...."
3) Got that part?
4) Good!
5) At the bottom of the screen where you type in your messages here on this board, there's a box with a title "Optional Image URL:". You can type or paste the web address (URL) of your picture here. When your message is read by the rest of us, the picture comes up first, and then your message is below it.
6) If you want to have your message appear as text and then a picture then more text and another picture, or just post multiple pictures, then you have to do some trickery.
7) The formatting (look) of the message board can be controlled by commands. You can make letters bold, italic, or... insert a picture. You just need the right commands.
8) When you click on the "Post Followup" line to add your wisdom to someone's query, you see that their message is copied to the box where you type your message. The one which says "Comments:" at the top of it (where I'm typing right now). You see an "i" surrounded by the < and > symbols. These are the command line symbols. Anything between these symbols is considered by the message board software to be a command. In the "Post Followup" example, the "i" is the command for italics. The first time the command appears it turns italics on , the second time the command appears it turns them off. In this way you can bold things (use a "b" inside the < and >) or imbed pictures and the like. Remember that usually two commands are needed when fooling with the letters (fonts). One to start the change, one to stop it.
9)The command line for putting pictures into the text is 'img src=" " ', which says to the message board "the image source is located at" the web address within the quotation marks. So, to stick a picture in with the text, you'd type the command line - img src="http://mypicture.com/picture.jpg" within the < and > symbols. The address between the quotation marks is the address of your picture. Now the message board system will read the command line and go out and bring back the picture from the source (photopoint or wherever).
10) Now for an example: let's use the address of a picture of your red devil on Philippe's Club E31 site. First, let's get the address of your picture. Click over to Club E31, and find the picture of Kurt's car. Open the picture in it's own window, so now you have the address (URL) of the picture:
http://club8series.homestead.com/files/Grayson.jpg
Write the command line by starting with the < symbol, then type
img src="http://club8series.homestead.com/files/Grayson.jpg"
and end the command with the > symbol.
and.......
11) So class, to review: Stick your pictures on a web site. Copy the web address of the picture to the "Optional Image URL:" box at the bottom of the screen where you type your messages. Or... insert your picture into the text by using the command lines. You can change the way the letters (fonts) look with italic "i", or bold "b" commands.
12) There will be a quiz Tuesday morning, class is dismissed for Christmas.
Guten Tag,
Herr Professor Stan
Happy Holidays to All
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