I tried to post a reply including a schematic, but can't understand how to "Insert Image". What I found in YaBB Help makes no sense to me. Would someone be kind enough to spell it out? :-[
The image is a .png on my desktop from CaptureMe. Will I be able to post this?
You need to sign up for an online picture hosting site like flicker.
Then up load your picture to that. Then you will have a URL that you can post between the img /img (in square brackets) you get when you hit the picture icon (3rd from the left) of the icons in the reply box.
Thanks Mike, It was the part about the picture hosting site I was missing.
Maybe not Flickr though. I got partway through Yahoo signup & decided life's too short!
It's worth it.
People pay attention when you have a picture of the problem, so if you plan to learn from these forums it's worth the time spent learning to upload photos to Flickr and convert the linking code for these forums.
I agree with you. All I'm saying is, Flicker can't be the only game in town. The signup process is LUDICROUS!
I have an aversion to long-winded forms & pages of legal bumf. (Government worker 28 yrs, now RETIRED.)
I use Google's Picassaweb http://picasaweb.google.com/
I don't recall the signup details (I've got flicker too, and I don't recall it being so bad, but I like Google cause it lets people download the full-res versions, whereas that looked harder to get to on flickr.)
(If you've already got google anything, it should go easier. Probably true of yahoo as well; maybe that's why I don't remember onerous details.)
You can register a domain name and get pretty reliable hosting service for a total of under $30-40 dollars per year. Then you can run your own website, post photos, have a custom email address, whatever. I'd say it's worth it, though I also have a Flickr account because a popular photo isn't going to suck up my bandwidth. But if you have your own domain and website, you're finally fully participating in the Web instead of just consuming content.
You can try google pages. It's for websites, but I simply use it as a storage place of all my images I need to link to forums, you get 100MB free, obviously more if you sign up for more accounts...
Thanks for all the input, people. Haven't had time to explore many of the suggestions yet. Tried my ISP & they suggested Image Shack. Looks simple enough. Would it be a good choice with this forum? Is the advertising content a problem?
I am only thinking of posting the occasional .png file at this stage.