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Old 08-26-2006, 06:29 AM
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ok... now before any of you like pluck out my eye ***** or anything drastic like that, know that i have tryed and tryed again. and even fallowed the "tutorial" on how to do this... please help.. anything would help me at this point. like what website are you going through?? please anybody out there help me.
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It's not hard. However, your image has to be "hosted" somewhere on the web, meaning the pic can't merely be on your puter. Once it's on the internet (using photobucket or some other host), you are merely linking it to Scionlife from the hosting site by using [img] in front of the url and [/img] at the back of the url.

The image you display must already be available on the Internet (it cannot exist only on your computer, for example, unless you run a webserver!). To display the image, you just surround the URL pointing to the image with [img][/img] tags. For example:

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what did you do wrong.... cuz all i see is a little white box with a red x in it?
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Yipes Dan--the dreaded red box!!
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Default Re: POSTING PICS ON A FORUM IS SOOOO HARD!!! AHHH HELP

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ok... now before any of you like pluck out my eye ***** or anything drastic like that, know that i have tryed and tryed again. and even fallowed the "tutorial" on how to do this... please help.. anything would help me at this point. like what website are you going through?? please anybody out there help me.
I use www.photobucket.com

After you sign up there you download pictures to that site then generate the image. Let me know after you try it if you still are having a problem. Good Luck
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im gonna through this friggin computer out the window in a min, if i cant figure this out.. i dont know why i cant get this... or why im getting soo ____ed
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Originally Posted by OldYeller
Yipes Dan--the dreaded red box!!
right click my red box then click properties
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Yipes Dan--the dreaded red box!!
click the properties of my little red box ;)
right clicked--then show picture---got nothing?????
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Originally Posted by OldYeller
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Yipes Dan--the dreaded red box!!
click the properties of my little red box ;)
right clicked--then show picture---got nothing?????
no0b, read the link. dang.
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ok... lets see if i beat the system... here it goes

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ok.. what am i doing wrong here??
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fixed it for you
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you have to put the [img] URL IN HERE !!! [/img] haha not too hard
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thanks... how did you do that?
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what the heck do you mean?? i clicked the little image box to make it say [img]
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p'md you with some photobucket instructions.......
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ok.. thanks... it sure is taking it along time to give me my message
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Originally Posted by must_tang50
what the heck do you mean?? i clicked the little image box to make it say [img]
yeah but you clicked it after you had already posted the link in your thread. you have to click it once then post your link then click it again so the link is surroundeded by the tags. understand that [img] has to be in front of the link to the photo and [/img] has to be behind the link.
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lets try this again

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WHOO!!! allrighty.. thank you all for helping i know i can be stupid on the computer at times
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