DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

In order to help anybody having difficulties posting pictures on this site I thought a few notes may come in handy.

To display a picture in a post you need to use the Img button that you will see to the top right above the box you are typing your post text in. Once pressed this will create an [Img] piece of code. You then need to post the URL of the picture you want to post and then press the Img button again. Job done!

To get the URL of a picture you need to view the source. On a Mac this can be done by clicking and holding on the picture and opening it in a new window. Then simply copy the URL from your browser address bar and paste it into the message as detailed above. On a PC this can be done by right clicking and then clicking on 'Properties'. The URL will appear in the window that opens. Again copy this and paste it as above.

If you have pictures on your hard drive and wish to host them somewhere for posting then use a site such as www.muchos.co.uk or www.photobucket.com

Muchos allows you to upload 10 pictures and will even show you the URL with [IMG] tags either side to paste into your message (Use the 'Show Ubb codes' or Message board codes' link and select the second one down with [IMG] in it).

Photobucket is great and once you've signed up and uploaded a pic it even show the URl underneath it so you can copy and then paste it into your message using the [IMG] buttons as described above.

I hope this helps, but please, any problems send me a message and I'll do my best to help further.

test picture

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BVjM ... LP7ldujOfU

test

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MqQ6 ... 0p4xu4mCFM

tesgt again

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MqQ6 ... 0p4xu4mCFM

test again

You just need to put after the jpg code... Simple!

[img]<a%20href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/johngulli ... ghton"></a>[/img]

One of the very last '73s made.

[img]<iframe%20src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/johngulli ... n></iframe>[/img]

von Zipper wrote:

One of the very last '73s made.

I'm being really dumb here. so the URL is the save path? for example C:\Users\name\Desktop\xxx.jpg?

Nope

You need to host the picture somewhere and use the URL of the picture with the IMG tags around it - use Photobucket as it's very simple and you can copy and paste the IMG code straight into a post.

Bootsy wrote:Nope

You need to host the picture somewhere and use the URL of the picture with the IMG tags around it - use Photobucket as it's very simple and you can copy and paste the IMG code straight into a post.

ah got it - i'll give it a go!

Thanks!

btw - I sent £10 via paypal - does that make me a paid member?

jim_zzzz wrote:
btw - I sent £10 via paypal - does that make me a paid member?

It does, but if you've not had a pack before fill in the form here http://ddk-online.com/join.htm and send it in.

Thanks

Bootsy wrote:

jim_zzzz wrote:
btw - I sent £10 via paypal - does that make me a paid member?

It does, but if you've not had a pack before fill in the form here http://ddk-online.com/join.htm and send it in.

Thanks

Ah perfect - I'll do so!

Not so handy, it necessitates lots of click before getting the url...
Will we at a stage, be able to upload the pic form the HD to the forum directly ???
regards
this would be brilliant !

993anorak wrote:Not so handy, it necessitates lots of click before getting the url...
Will we at a stage, be able to upload the pic form the HD to the forum directly ???
regards
this would be brilliant !

I did enable the facility to upload images onto the server but it slowed the forum down and increased the amount of storage I needed to pay for. People uploaded massive hi res images which have to be stored on the server and then displayed within threads.

It also became the default way in which the majority displayed pics and was creating more and more of an overhead to maintain so I disabled it again.

Another by product is that once a picture is hosted on the DDK server and has it's own URL it can also be displayed from that location within other forums - thus increasing bandwidth usage and running costs.

So there's a few reasons why I felt it necessary to disable it again and now the majority seem quite happy to use a photo hosting site and paste the url with img tags.