ccobb,

I knew that was an option, but I believe the CAG rules say no links to external sites.. So, I haven’t even tried this option figuring it would get removed.

Thanks,

Rich

ccobb,

I agree that linking is a good option and would like to do it as well, however, I believe it has been said that links are not supposed to be used to other sites because of “copyright” issues.

I think if we are linking to our own photobucket or something else, it should be okay. Maybe Joe or a Moderator can explain the rules better. I may not be stating the rules right and I am sure there is a reason that they can explain better than me.

As far as editing our posts, I am not sure why that isn’t allowed after a very short time. Seems like if I wrote it, I should be able to edit it even after a week to fix issues. But, again, I am not the admin or a moderator and I am not sure why this is the case.

Rich

First of all, I want to thank both of you, ccobb and rjsimp, for being so conscientious about following the rules here. :clapping:

I’ll try to clarify what I can for you. I believe that it’s ok to post a link to a site like photobucket. We have allowed that in many instances. It’s probably not a very good way for you to do it, though, since I think that anyone can then look at all your pictures in all your albums (I think). But, anyway, that would be ok.

There are a few reasons that outside links, in general, aren’t allowed. Sometimes people want to post links to other tourism sites, which in effect, would be competitors of the Activity Guide and this board. Another reason is that Joe wants everything that people learn and read about here to be about places that he has personally inspected and recommends. Those are most often the advertisers of the magazine. He doesn’t want a recommendation to a place that he knows nothing about to come from within this board by way of a link. I don’t think I’m explaining it very well, and I’m sure Joe could give you a much better answer.

I don’t really understand the limit on editing your own posts except that I understand that’s normal on other message boards. It’s just new here.

The good news is that all the glitches have been fixed that were preventing people from posting pictures. Pictures can now be as large as 640 pixels wide, and image tags can be directly pasted into your posts (just like before) and if you choose to use the Image Icon, it’s now working again. The only thing that hasn’t been fixed, and I’m not sure that it can be, is the fact that all pictures in posts that were larger than 600 pixels are still teensy tiny. I suppose that if people go into their Photobucket accounts and try to repost them at 640 x 480, they will show up.

Char

I know that if i find a problem/error that a moderator can help me get it edited.

Rich

Exactly! ?

Char

ccobb,

Well, if you can’t edit your post any longer and see the tags, then the easiest way (although technical) way to see which images are being referenced is to go to your Trip report and while viewing a page where your photos are shown, right click your mouse on the web page (someplace other than the images) and select “View Source”..

An editor will show up to show you the source for the web page. All you need to do is search for “photobucket.com” and you’ll see all your references which will include the image names.

Then of course, just go to photobucket and resize those ones to 640×480 and you’re set :thumb:

If you have problems, I would be happy to go through your post and tell you the ones that you are using, but if you can do it yourself, it is always better so you know how next time. ?

Rich

ccobb,

Of course, that was before I read rjsimp’s hints to you! :bash: I hadn’t taken the time to realize that I could actually get the information straight from the little tiny picture. I’m someone lucky enough to have a Mac :poke: , and I’m using Netscape as my browser, so don’t know if that makes a difference, but now I realize that I can hold my cursor down on top of a small picture in any one’s post. When the menu pops up, I can see their photo. When I hold the cursor down on that enlarged picture, the menu pops up again, and if I select Properties, I can tell how big the picture is.

Char, yes the mac / netscape is different. My suggestion was for IE on Windows. If you try to get properties on your picture from IE, CAG has javascript in there to stop the click and display’s a message saying that the images are copyright (which is odd to display on our own photos). In any case, it would be easy to see the image properties if this wasn’t the case. However, since it is; what I suggested works… :thumb:

So, lots of choices really.. Just got to pick one that you are comfortable doing. ?

Rich

….another way to see the source for your pictures is to just click the quote button in your post. The picture source will show there as well…. same as it would if you were editing….