UnOfficial Volkszone Forum FAQ >> Loading Pictures On To Photobucket

An Illustrated Guide To Posting Pictures On The Forum

OK, you've managed to save some great pics from a site thats no longer on the net or you've taken some smashing photos with your digicam and you feel the need to chare them with the world on your favourite forum...
Posting images on VZi and other 'BB Code' forums is pretty straightforward as long as you can meet two goals:

a: the image you want to display needs to be on the internet somewhere
b: the site the image is on must allow 'remote linking'

A quick explanation of the points above ... (a) is needed as we, the general public, cannot (luckily for you) see files located on your personal computer, therefore they need to be hosted on a website so that we can all enjoy them. (b) is more of a limitation on most 'free webspace' providers. Potentially, posting an image on a popular forum can generate thousands of 'hits', if we, the general public, are just looking at that image and not the webpage it should reside on, then the hosting company are theoretically being done out of potential advertising viewing. SO, most free hosts 'disable remote linking' and thus pics on those sites will not work on forums. Notable examples are Tripod and GeoCities. MSN groups can be tweaked to allow image posting but is not worth the effort when there are easier ways.

Step up PhotoBucket .... they run a free picture hosting service that allows remote linking on forums, eBay, whatever and it's also easy to setup...

Note: these screenshots are way out of date, this is being fixed as soon as I get a chance ... :)

Step One:
create an account ...

click the 'sign up now!' link.

Stick in your details, including a -valid- email address and click 'Register'

Scroll past all the mailing list nonsense and click the 'Submit and Continue' button.

Re-enter your login details to log in with your new account.

Wait a bit ...

You then need to find where the images are stored on your PC. This bit I can't help you with as they could be anywhere, though generally if you check the 'My Pictures' folder which lives in the 'My Documents' folder you should be OK. Click the 'Browse' button to open the upload window.

Find the pic on your pc then click 'Open'

Then click 'Submit' to upload the pic to your account.

The next bit is the key to using the pic on a forum.
Click in the 'IMG' text box so the code is highlighted then 'right click' and select 'copy'. You can also go to the Edit dropdown menu and select 'Copy' if you prefer ...
You now have the link, already formatted for the forum, ready to paste into your message, see the 'Posting Pictures' guide :

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