Here is some help for folks new to the forum and wondering how to post pictures or wondering how to get them to display properly. I've been trying to help quite a few people lately and I have also gotten questions from folks in the past - so I thought I would just write something and share it openly (and unsolicited).
Please forgive the simplicity of some of my instructions.
I wanted them to be simple enough for a certain Meanderthal to be able to understand and use
Mudworm suggested screenshots and I can add those if people feel they would help.
How to post pictures on Mud n Crud with a Flikr account.
Open/sign up for a free or a paid Flikr account.
Upload pics to Flikr and once they are uploaded, open each one and get the BBC code. How? When your photo is open in Flikr – look in the lower right-hand corner for a curved arrow (Share) – click on that and choose the BBC code. For size (important to make your photo display properly on the forum), choose the smaller of the Medium settings from the drop-down menu (below the BBC code display). Single click to highlight the code (highlight is blue). Copy and paste to your post on Mud n Crud.
All you need is the part between and including the [img]’s, so delete all the extra stuff in front of/before and after the img’s.
Caption your photo and try the Preview button on Mud n Crud before posting. If I am posting a bunch of stuff or writing a TR – I compose offline and then copy and paste the whole thing in at once in case something crashes while I am composing.
How to Post photos on Mud n Crud using Google Photos
Upload your photos to Google Photos.
I have my account set to “High Quality - store more at a slightly reduced quality.” The other choice is Original. Using the “Original” setting usually makes photos too big to display properly on Mud n Crud (especially phone pictures with big file sizes). The forum has a size limit of 500Kb. If you upload using the Original setting you will probably have to do a minor "fix" to the code to make the pictures display properly.
In Google photos, upload your pictures to a folder/album (you have to create one) and then share the folder/album (create a link but don't use it). Now open each photo and create a link for each one (but again - don't use that link). Once you have shared the album/created a link and created a link for each picture - with the picture still open - right click on the image and choose "copy image address" - then click on the little photo icon on the forum (below Subject/below Italics on the screen) - it will give you two "img's" in brackets with the cursor already blinking in the middle - just paste the image address in between the img's. If your photo does not display properly (too big to see without scrolling up/down, side to side then add the "fix" to your code by changing the first img in brackets to read "img width=600" inside the brackets. Be careful not to add any extra spaces.
If you don't share the album or forget to create any of the links, Google will give you an outrageously long string of code and you'll know something is wrong. Bonus if this happens - you'll probably be able to see your pictures in the post but no one else will and you won't know it unless someone on the forum tells you.
Don't forget - you can use the preview function to check your post before putting it out there for all to see.
Good luck and keep posting!
