POSTING PICTURES on Pet Talk; class 101

[Phred]

REVISED on 2/15/2003...

The MSN sites, Tripod, and some of the other picture storage web sites
~NOW Including WebShots and Photogra
will not allow photos stored on "their" sites to be viewed
and displayed on BBS sites such as Pet Talk. It's probably covered
somewhere in their "Terms & Conditions".

There's an easy fix - Join up and establish an account at ImageStation.com!
You get started at: http://www.imagestation.com

Once you open an account; open an album and upload [from your
hard drive] any photos you want to share via e-mails or by
posting on Pet Talk.
THEN you use your ImageStation album to store the pictures you want
to post on Pet Talk.

As we speak, ImageStation does not openly object to folks posting
photos stored on ImageStation. But everyone should understand
that ImageStation *might* change this policy in the future.
>>Just like WebShots AND Photogra did!<<

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Here's some information about using some of the *automatic*
features found on the Pet Talk BBS...

The "IMAGE" Push Button is one of the features available
on Pet Talk that is just above the post entry Message box.
Just above the message box is a Feature Box:
*Labeled* "vB Code"

In the vB Code box are push buttons that activate Bold,
Italics, Underline, Link("http://"), and IMG (Image) features.

When you activate a push button; a data entry box pops up where
you can fill in the words you want made BOLD,
in Italics, Underlined, or shown as an active Link, or as a Photo Image.

For the adventuresome ~ you can use the "Enhanced Mode of vB Code" to *STACK* up MULTIPLE Effects like this:
It's Bold, Italic, Underlined and Red!

The CODE to do that was:
[ B][ I][ U][ COLOR=red]It's Bold, Italic, Underlined and Red![/COLOR][/U][/I][/B]

You're supposed to turn the features OFF in the reverse order that you turned thm ON in - first on = last off.


The IMG button gives you a data box to paste in the
photo address location. After you paste in the photo's address,
click on the OK box to return to the message entry box. And you'll
notice that the photo's address is AUTOMATICALLY wrapped
inside the special [IM G] and [/IM G] code brackets.

Like ~ it's just plain MAGIC!!

The bold and italic buttons likewise put the [b] and [/ b] or
the [i] and [/ i] brackets around whatever words you enter
into the data box.

Takes a bit of getting used to, but they're all pretty handy.

Gotta watch for two things, though...

* After you use the buttons, the durn cursor returns to the
TOP of the message box - if you don't arrow back down to where
you were in the message, you'll start erasing the top
of your message. (Been there, dun that !!)

* And the URL (link) and IMAGE (photo) buttons ALWAYS
put their output at the BOTTOM of your message at the
time you use them. You CAN highlight, cut, and paste the
results back up into the middle of your post if you want to.

Try 'em; you might find some of the feature buttons handy.

<< That's me, Phred