Welcome! Addictive, yes, very
Posting photographs to ALR; here is a link providing alternative picture hosting sites to our old standby Photobucket, which is rapidly falling out of favor on ALR due to excessive advertising and low speed. Here is the link to our recent discussion about moving away from Photobucket...
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=41811.0The basic way to include photographs on ALR is to first join, then upload your pictures to a photo hosting website. after that you cut and paste the individual photograph's URL in your ALR message, being sure to add the proper
before and
after HTML "tags," which I attempt to explain below...
Immediately
before you paste in the hosted photo link type an open bracket, thus "[" continue with "img" then type a closed bracket "]" (lose the "" quote marks, those are in my text for clarity only). It should all be one line, no spaces, thus: [img]
Immediately
after the hosted photo link do another open bracket [ insert "/img" and close it ]
I hope that is somewhat more clear than mud Nathan.
What those HTML tags do is define for the program where a photo will appear in the text of your ALR post. That first tag [img] says "insert image here," the next one says "photo stops here."
In any case, would love to see some of your work and keep enjoying ALR. So much to learn and drool over.
dave
