Posting Help

Instructions for Posting

  1. Type in your message. If you are posting images follow the instructions below.
  2. Press the "Preview Message" or "Submit Follow Up" button. If you need to make changes to what you have written, the press your browser's "Back" button & make the changes. If your image did not appear in then make the changes to that also.
  3. Once again press the "Preview Button" or "Submit Follow Up". If everything looks OK then scroll down the page & press the "Post Message" button. If you did everything right a message will appear that says "Message Added......".
  4. You can then press the "Go To My Message" button/link OR You can press the "Back" button on your browser until you get back to the main message board & then press "Reload" or "Refresh" button.

Instructions for Posting Photos

Courtesy VanGargoyle.Com & Leland Ray

(This information is for PC users; if you're using a Macintosh, click (HERE)

These guidelines are posted on the assumption that you have one or more images online (stored) on a website. Unfortunately, images can not be posted from your home or office computer.

If you do not have a website and would like to place images online, contact the Webmaster of LynnFarmerPhoto. I can usually come up with space for two or three photos.

Once your pictures are online, there are several ways to put the proper HTML code into the "Optional Image URL" line of a post.

  1. Type the FULL path to the image, NOT the page it's on. Also, remember that on the World Wide Web, most links are case sensitive, so that http://www.vangargoyle.com/myimage.JPG is not the same as http://www.vangargoyle.com/myimage.jpg. Make sure you know in advance exactly how the image name and link are presented.
  2. Go the the webpage that holds the image. In Netscape, right click your mouse on the image and choose "Copy Image Location." Then you can go to the Image URL part of the form, right click, and choose "Paste."
  3. Internet Explorer users can right click an image and bring up "Properties." The image location is presented in the gray box which appears on your screen. Place your mouse cursor at the beginning of the tag starting at "http" and mark the entire image path. Once it's marked, right click and choose "Copy." Then paste just as in Netscape.
  4. Create a text file and put it where it's easy to find. Type in the image location(s) you want to use, one per line. When you post a message and want to include an image, just do the copy/paste routine again. This is a good system because it lets you post while keeping the forums page in view.

When you've got all the information entered, your post should look something like this:


Posting Pictures With a Macintosh
(Courtesy Tom Collins, PPGF)


Click and hold. A pop-up menu appears with the following options:

Back
Forward
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Open this Link
Add Bookmark for this Link
New Window with this Link
Save Link as ...
Copy this Link Location
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Open Image
Save Image
Copy Image
Copy Image Location
Load this Image


Select "Copy Image Location" and the image location is copied onto the computer's clipboard (and will remain there until you copy something else or turn off the computer).

When posting the image place the curser in the appropriate text box by clicking the mouse in that box. Go to the "Edit" pull-down menu at the top of the browser and select "paste", or command-v. This will paste the image URL.