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Suggested FAQ: How to post an image
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-27, 6:47 am |
| Suggested title: How to post an image
When you have an image (image.extension) on a website (yourdomain.topdomain), you can link to it by copying/writing this into your message (folders are optional, .extension may be .gif, .jpg, etc.):
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../image.extension"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../image.extension" alt="" border="0"></a>
If you do not have an available website, you may place the image on one of the free image hosting sites and link to that location instead; you may find them by googling upload image.
The dual linking makes your image directly visible to browser users with a viable link for NNTP users:
Len, what do you say?
Hopefully, with the new improved forums (http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc157dd), it will be possible to post images by uploading to the forum; still, some of us will prefer to keep images on our own sites.
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| LenHewitt@adobeforums.com 2006-08-27, 6:46 pm |
| Jacob,
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post images by uploading to the forum;<<
I'd be very surprised!
Actually, Jacob, we do not encourage folks to use the <img src=> route
at all. For starters, those images are totally invisible to anyone
accessing via a Newsreader - not even an indictation that there IS an
image there.
Secondly, embedded images greatly reduce the number of messages on a
page and that slows down reading through a topic considerably.
Lastly, posting images above about 700px wide breaks the forum formatting.
No problem whatsoever with posting HYPERLINKS to images - those are
accessible to anyone who wishes to follow the link, NNTP users included,
and those that don't wish to can ignore them.
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-27, 6:46 pm |
| Len,
we do not encourage folks to use the ...
What should we use, then?
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| LenHewitt@adobeforums.com 2006-08-27, 10:39 pm |
| >>What should we use, then?<<
<a href="http://URL_OF_IMAGE">View Image here</a>
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 3:53 am |
| Thank you, Len.
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| LenHewitt@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 6:45 am |
| Almost, Jacob <g>
You need the text part of the link to see anything in Browser view. NNTP
users will see the link itself.
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Yes, and displays absolutely nothing in a Newsreader
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 6:45 am |
| So, to take it slow:
1. The href part gives the link to NNTP users, invisible to browser users,
2. The img scr part simply embeds the image, invisible to NNTP users,
no?
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| LenHewitt@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 6:46 pm |
| The <a href = method is fine for both Browser and NNTP user allowing
both equally to access the image.
The point I was making was that <a href="http://URL_OF_IMAGE"></a> would
be perfectly useable to a Newsreader user but without some text as in:
<a href="http://URL_OF_IMAGE>CLICK HERE FOR IMAGE</a>
A browser user would see nothing of the link
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| Teri Pettit 2006-08-28, 6:46 pm |
| So then what is wrong with Jason's original suggestion? Won't browser users see the image (from the img part), while NNTP users see the link (from the href part)?
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| Bert Philippus 2006-08-28, 6:46 pm |
| Teri:
Right on, I usually post an "Image in a link", works fine:
<a href="http://www.stuff.com/image.gif"><img src="http://www.stuff.com/image.gif" alt="" /></a>
Bert
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 6:46 pm |
| Teri,
So then what is wrong with Jason's original suggestion?
Jason?
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| LenHewitt@adobeforums.com 2006-08-28, 6:46 pm |
| Hi Teri,
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Only that it encourages folks to post in-line images which often break
the forum formatting, reduce the number of messages per page and are a
pain for those users on dial-up accounts.
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-29, 7:03 am |
| Len,
Next time someone asks, I will remember the formatting part, so from now on it will be:
When you have an image on a website (image.extenison) on a website (yourdomain.topdomain),
you can link to it by copying/writing this into your message (folders
are optional, .extension may be .gif, .jpg, etc.):
<a ref="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../imagename.extension"><
img src="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../imagename.extension" alt="" border="0"></a>
To keep the forum format, please do not post images wider than 680px.
I understand your concern, but I fear the encouragement less because no one reads the FM,, the Welcome, the first post, and the FAQs.
My suggestion was meant for those who had a good reason When you have an image on a website (image.extenison) on a website (yourdomain.topdomain), you can link to it by copying/writing this into your message (folders are optional, .extension may be .gif,
.jpg, etc.):
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../imagename.extension"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.topdomain/folder1/folder2/.../imagename.extension" alt="" border="0"></a>
To keep the forum format, please do not post images wider than 680px.
I understand your concern, but I fear the encouragement aspect less because no one reads the FM, the Welcome, the first post, and the FAQs.
My suggestion was meant to be an easy reference in answer to those with a good reason to ask.
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| Stephen_Fish@adobeforums.com 2006-08-29, 6:56 pm |
| Hey Len. Because of your concerns about posting images (above), and the concerns of many of us that images are a very important part of this forum for illustrating problems and solutions. What is wrong with the following-
Make uploading be a specific component of the forum by way of an automated form. Anything but gifs less than a certain dimension and file size could be refused, and their display would be formatted for any access. There could be a choice for forum readers
to display them or not. Mostly what is needed are small screen shots, and a file size limit of less than 50K might be adequate. steve
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-29, 6:56 pm |
| I think this forum works fine as it is, without its threads being overly burdened by images.
And in any case we should keep the option of uploading images to our own websites.
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| Stephen_Fish@adobeforums.com 2006-08-29, 6:56 pm |
| Hi Jacob. The reasons for my suggestion was to find a way to preclude the problems Len is concerned about, and to make posting easier. Many who post here are not familiar with HTML code and don't have their own website. A long time ago there was a small i
llustration forum I participated in that did what I suggested above. It was very easy for students and new users to communicate graphically without using up a lot of space. I realize that Adobe is unlikely to adopt this format, but I am curious what Len w
ould say about it. It seems to me that a graphics forum should make it easy and foolproof to exchange graphical material. steve
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| Jacob_Bugge@adobeforums.com 2006-08-29, 6:56 pm |
| Steve, I agree completely if we shall still be able to post images the old way.
I realize that Adobe is unlikely to adopt this format,
I hope the new forum planners will use the concept. Why not?
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