FAQ: How to add images to your posts

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To add images to your posts you need three things:

  1. A digital version of your images, preferrably in JPEG (.JPG) format.
  2. A web server to host your image file.
  3. A little bit of HTML coding in your post.

To take the points in order: If you are using a digital camera, then the first point should be trivial and explained in your user guide. The photo.net site covers how to get a traditional film scanned and where the best places for this service are.

The web server gives you a place on the net to store your image. As a side effect each image file will have an address known as a URL or URI. It could be something like http://photo.net/photo/pcd1638/glen-canyon-dam-2.1.jpg for one of Philip's images. You'll have to find your own Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will allow you to store some files on a web server.

Please try to keep you images in a reasonable (i.e. not too big) size.

Then to the HTML. It's easy, really, if a bit scary. You need to know the URL of your image file and the size in pixels of the image. The image mentioned above is a 196×134 pixel JPEG image. To add ti to your submission you have to type the following in your submission:

<IMG SRC="http://photo.net/photo/pcd1638/glen-canyon-dam-2.1.jpg" WIDTH="196" HEIGHT="134"> <P>This is one of Philip's pictures....

If everything works out OK, then your posting should look like

This is one of Philip's pictures....

to the rest of the community. Use <P> to start a new paragraph.

Now for the scary part:There is no preview facility on this system, so you have to get all the HTML right first time! This is surprisingly hard.

Philip's guide to HTML is at http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/html.html.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 05, 2000

Answers

Where to upload your images

See? I can't event get a chunck of HTML right myself.

But to the point: in another thread somebody pointed out that you can upload your images to the index@photo.net database which Philip is kind enough to host on his photo.net site. If you place them there then they will be safe even if you change ISP over the next twenty or fifty years. Highly recommended.



-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 05, 2000.

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