Re: Test topic

[tester1]

OK, I just created this test account and run it on another machine (running Linux to try and really fool it !)
I think what happens is we use a common account to use the image upload/hosting like this, so I'll just login and reset the password to something trivial so we can all use the same. It will hopefully be a case of doing a one-off login to the account and then it's easy.

[tester1]

OK. You should login to that popup once with -

forum@mad-freelanders.org.uk
madpeople

Give that a go .. I think I'll have to make some decent instructions if this is going to be easy !

Cheers

[s.stirley]

Oddly that still worked for me, even though I'd entered the old password ! very odd. Oh well, at least it does work

[Rich]

I give up.
I entered the email address and pass word you gave us. That allowed me to browse my pictures, and open the file. I then got a drop down menu allowing me to chose which size to post the picture. I chose the size for forums (800 i think). That did nothing. I re sized image on the computer to 640x320 as per old forum. That then gave me 3 options which I didnt understand. I chose different options on 2 different occasions pressing upload each time, somthing happened but I have no idea where the file has gone. How did you do it Si. It really cant be this difficult can it?

[Rich]

Found this in FAQ's, does it mean anything to you Si?

Can I post Images?
Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed).

[Alan B]

Give that a go .. I think I'll have to make some decent instructions if this is going to be easy !

Cheers

Managed after a great deal of faffing about



I don't think I'll be bothering to post many pictures!!

[Rich]

How did you do it Alan?

[Alan B]

Not sure if I could replicate it! Certainly not able to explain just now. I'll try again later and make some notes - have to go out now.

Part of the problem was that half the time the window that opens when I press the 'host an image' button is more than half off the screen, no links available, not draggable or resizeable, and locks up IE. Have to use the 'end now' button and start again....

[s.stirley]

I've not had that problem with the browser at all Alan, what browser and version are you using ?

Rich - the window basically uploads your file to another host, then gives you the forum code to add in like you can normally if you know a link. ie

Code:

[img]http://www.mad-freelanders.org.uk/forum/logo.gif[/img]

To get that into your post you highlight the 2nd block of text (most convenient) and copy it into your post. I found you can do this whilst it is still open by clicking behind it.

I'm putting off transferring forums until we get this sorted BTW, it's fairly crucial really and won't work if it's too much trouble for all users.

Cheers

[Alan B]

I've not had that problem with the browser at all Alan, what browser and version are you using ?

IE 6, but according to my ISP soon (12 Feb) to be upgraded to 7 by a forced instal from Microsoft. Up to now automatic downloads have given me the option of installing v7 or not - I haven't as I know a couple of people who've had issues with v7.

Maybe I need to give Firefox a go???

[Rich]

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Seems to have worked, seems like a lot of hassle just to do a simple task like this though.

[s.stirley]

I've not had that problem with the browser at all Alan, what browser and version are you using ?

IE 6, but according to my ISP soon (12 Feb) to be upgraded to 7 by a forced instal from Microsoft. Up to now automatic downloads have given me the option of installing v7 or not - I haven't as I know a couple of people who've had issues with v7.

Maybe I need to give Firefox a go???

I'm using firefox on this machine and have no problems with it, in fact I prefer it also it has far less problems with security flaws, simply as it's less common that IE. Using IE7 at home though, and that's no problem either.

[s.stirley]

Seems to have worked, seems like a lot of hassle just to do a simple task like this though.

It is quite a hassle, but that's a general problem with 'free' type forums I think.

I saw you put a picture in your own gallery previously, wondering if using that functionality and posting the URL to those into messages will be easier ?

What does anyone think ? I suspect the 'hosting' way will become easier as we do it more, but it's certainly not trivial.

[s.stirley]

I posted this to my gallery (easy to do and understand) then clicked on it for info and copied the forum code it gave me for the image here -



The only problem there is the gallery size is limited, but we can always buy a bit more as it's not that expensive.

Maybe if I write up both ways then we've at least got a choice and most people will get on with one or the other

[Rich]

Also the problem with gallery images is that you have to allow them. Thats what i got a message saying when I first tried to post a picture there.