Image Posting Howto

Hi all,

I see some of you asking how to post images.  Here's the trick.

First off, the image must be hosted on the internet somewhere.  The Volkswebbin forum does not allow you to upload images.

This howto assumes you're using Internet Explorer on a PC, but anyone can post images.  Just adjust the instructions for your environment.

Lets say you wanted to post the picture of the beetle in this CNN article  http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/10/pf/auto … en.beetle/ on the Volkswebbin site.

In order to post the image, you need to find the location of the image first.  To do this, right click on the image and choose "Properties" from the pop-up menu.

On the Properties window, there will be information next to a label titled  "Address(URL)".  Select all of the text, and hit ctrl-C to copy.

To test that the image worked, try pasting (Ctrl-V) the address of the image into the Address bar in Internet Explorer and hitting enter to view the image.  In the case of this example, you should be looking at this image: http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/10/pf/auto … beetle.jpg

Now that you have the address of the picture, you can post it on the Volkswebbin site.

To do so, create a new message and then paste the address of the image into your message.  If you submit the message as is, the image will not show up in the forum, just the link will.

In order to turn the link into an inline image, you will need to use the

   [img] and [/img] 

tags.

The first tag goes at the beginning of your link, and the last tag goes at the end.  if you've done it properly, it should look like this:

[img]http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/10/pf/autos/bc.autos.volkswagen.beetle/beetle.jpg[/img]

Here's how it will look inline:

Have fun!

Darren.