Posting Images and links -- FAQs

rovhazman wrote: penndragonn2001 wrote: How do I insert an image directly into my Post? Not a link If you want to upload your photo to your post - you cannot. You have to have hosting site that hosts your photos. However, if you have a direct link to the JPEG (ends with .jpg) you have the picture shown in your post (and not only link). You can follow the instructions on this thread to learn how to get such link from your hosting service.

Not sure why, but that seems like a contradiction. You start out by saying I cannot upload pictures to a post, then state if I have a direct link to a .jpeg file it will be shown in the post. That is quite confusing and contratictory. Shouldn't be this complicated and drawn out, as I have seen in a few of the instructions attempting to explain the procedure. I DO NOT want to insert a link, I want to insert a picture as I have seen in countless posts here. Thank you for the reply all the same..

regards...



Edited by penndragonn2001 - 29 April 2014 at 09:33

If you upload say from Flickr, isn't that a link, which you then have to click on, which will take you to the picture?

Ron, are you thinking of a link as a highlighted line of text that you click on that takes you to another site? I think what they're trying to say is that the pictures you see on Dyxum are a linked image, meaning that they have to be uploaded and stored on the internet somewhere in order to show up here as a picture. Am I getting what you are saying right?

AutumnRose wrote: Ron, are you thinking of a link as a highlighted line of text that you click on that takes you to another site? I think what they're trying to say is that the pictures you see on Dyxum are a linked image, meaning that they have to be uploaded and stored on the internet somewhere in order to show up here as a picture. Am I getting what you are saying right?

Now THAT makes sense! Much more direct...Thank you so much and others as well. The light bulb went turned on!!

Bob J wrote: .... Dyxum does not store your image (unless it has won a DPC).

Bob,

I did not know that. It would make sense that you don't want DPC winning photos to disappear over time (or be altered), but how do you capture them? My Flickr account does not allow download of the photo, or so I thought.

Farid

Quick info for new flickr layout:

Looking at your own photostream click the photo you want to publish:



Having the photo displayed, click the 'link' icon (nr 1 on the s-shot below)



Then click BBCode (nr 2), then select appropriate size (nr 3; do not select anything larger than 1024 pixels horizontal because Dyxum will re-scale the photo to 1024 pixels anyway - save your Dyxum colleagues some bandwidth), finally select the BBCode (nr 4) copy it to the clipboard and just paste in your post on Dyxum. Please note that this BBCode is a bit 'Baroque' - if you are after the photo only then strip any excessive tags leaving the part starting with [IMG] and ending with [/IMG].

Pirate wrote: Ahoy! Using BB code, I can't seem to post external URL's as my Dyxum signature even though the 200 character limit isn't exceeded. Is this option unavailable on Dyxum or if it is allowed, what's the format type (HTML or other code type)? Anyone . . please

Plenty of other people have links to their Flickr or whatever in their sig, so it is possible, at least within certain limits.

I've no idea what those limits are.

EDIT: It appears you've fixed whatever the problem was.