Illustrated Tutorial for Posting Photos from a Host Web Site

We have two different methods to display your images in posts. This illustrated guide is to assist members in the method of posting photos by the means of copying the URL of an image you have stored on a host web site such as Photobucket.com (You may copy and paste multiple images in one post using this method) First you’ll need to find a photo hosting site and become familiar with it to use this method. The operation of your host web site is not in the scope of this tutorial. You may also use this method to display photos in Personal Mail (PM) Each page below illustrates one single step. In practice it goes by much more quickly than it may seem here. NOTE: If you delete your image from the host site your image will no longer appear in your massage

Go to Step One on the following page to begin –

1 Go to the Reply section under the last message you read and click the ‘Go Advanced’ button – * Don’t be intimidated - It is not overly advanced – The advanced mode only has a few additional functions and it’s very similar to the Quick Reply mode.

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After you click the ‘Go Advanced’ button you’ll be taken to the screen below.

Type your message as you would normally -

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After you’ve finish writing your message, click the ‘Insert Image’ button. (Small framed tree) Keep the location of the blinking cursor in mind before you click the ‘Insert Image’ button. Your image will be inserted where the cursor is. For instance, if you forget and leave your cursor blinking in the middle of your text the image will end up in the middle of your message.

4 A small dialogue box will appear with http// highlighted – (See below) In the step on the next page you need to go to the web site where you have your image located.

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Below is a sample image of the photo hosting service called Photobucket. It’s similar to several other free photo hosting web sites such as Flickr and ImageShack.

Copy the URL of your image and then return to milsurps.com

(It simplifies operations if you open a new browser to do this step)

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Now return to the page you were on at Milsurps.com and Paste the URL you copied from the Host Site NOTE: You must clear out the highlighted http:// that’s in the field before you Paste the URL

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After you paste the URL from your host site into the field shown, click OK –

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Below is a sample of what you should now see with your text above and the image URL below it. Just take a look in the highlighted area to make sure your URL doesn’t begin with http:// twice – (http://http:// …) If this happens your image won’t display

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Now click ‘Preview Post’ to see how your post will look to others

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You should see a preview of your text and image

11 Scroll down the page and the text area will appear again below the preview sample. At this point you may also edit what you wrote previously in the new text box below if you see an error in what you wrote, etc. You may also repeat the above steps to insert additional photos from your host site. (Just be sure to have your blinking cursor where you want the image to appear)

12 You may ‘Preview Post’ as many times as needed before clicking the ‘Submit Reply’ button. It’s actually easier than it may look and after you do it a couple of times it becomes second nature