After 5 years, I learned on this thread how to post a pic from one site (BB) to another.

Last night I tried to post a pic from one BB to another and got a message that basically said "we do not allow this". Contacted the webmaster and was informed I could only post a link to his BB concerning the thread in question. How do you do this? You guys do this all the time.
Of course, I cannot understand why he will not allow this based on his statement that people "abused" the sharing of pics without proper accreditation. If you go to the thread you can still copy the pic to your computer, I have copied perhaps 100 from this thread (military trucks) which I have saved to my pics file, print the pic and then scan it and send it wherever you wish.

Anyway, his rules and I need to get a simple bullet style step 1 through completion primer on how to do this. Please do not copy the various "boxes", it just confuses me..

Hope someone takes pity on me. I did do a search, but it gave me far too many threads to read comfortably
Bill

 

Here you go. https://www.f150online.com/forums/mi...&action=bbcode

BTW, what the webmaster described as not allowed on his forums is not allowed here, either. It's called "outside image linking." We turned off that capability about a year ago. (as did most large Ford truck enthusiast sites)

 

You can complete the rest of the saying, Steve.

Regarding how to post a picture, I typed the following in Microsoft Word and have it sitting on my reading contraption next to my keyboard.
1. Get image from net.
2. Right click on picture.
3. Select properties.
4. Triple click on address (highlight)
5. Right click on highlighted line. Click copy.
6. Go to post where you wish to post photo.
7. Type [img] url will appear.
8. At end of url type [/img].
9. Post your post.

Yell at me if you will, I am getting used to it (not from you per se) but........... I don't need a primer in the history or function of vB code nor URL hyperlinking.

There is a photo of an interesting vehicle on a BB in Sweden.
It is actually from the personal photo collection of a Romanian soldier in WWII that was purchased off of EBay Germany. To the best of my knowledge their are no copyright issues involved.
In any case, the webmaster of that BB has determined for whatever reason he will not allow that photo to be "transferred" from that BB to another. But, I am allowed to post a link to that specific thread so that you, for example, can view the photo.

Now, the 5 page thread you gave me will, in some way, maybe lead me to doing what I want to do but I only understand maybe 5% of the whole thing and I am too old to try to learn IT speak.

If I promise to show you how to set up an RC truck in language you can understand, could you do me a bullet instruction as to how to simply link a thread from one BB to another.

Remember, I did not just fall off the turnip truck. I am fluent in 4 languages. I just cannot grasp all this technospeak but I have also managed to negotiate a marriage of 44 years.

Steve, I have to go. My oldest Grandaughter and I are sitting here listening to Brittany Spears on my "AOL PC music program" while I am helping her with her homework. ***** Nelson, by the way is next up. I am trying to teach the child.

Please give me the short form if you can.
Bill

 

Bill,

Take a look at the "URL Hyperlinking" section of the page I provided to you. I think that the directions are pretty straightforward. In fact, the easiest way to do it might be to go the to image you want people to see, copy the address as shown by your browser (the http...up above) and paste that into a message. The forum software should do the rest...in fact, one of the reasons that it is so difficult to explain in a message here is that the software tries to translate what it thinks you meant. So, showing you the code in a message will actually execute the code, rather than display it...thus the link to the page with instructions.

Steve

 

OK, I reread the section you cited.

The only thing I can figure out from that is can I type in the entire "address" of the thread and then try to send it to, for example another BB. I still do not understand how to make that final link.

Look at it this way.

Vb codet aer ett sett av "tags" baserad pa HTML spraket som det aer moejlight att du kaenna till. Det goer det sa att du kan saetta pa "formatting" till den meddallande pa samma saet som HTML, men du har ett enklare "syntax" och aldrig skall brotta "layouten" av sidor som du tittar pa. Moejligheten att anvaenda vB codet beroer pa at protocol some aer saettet pa "administrator" sa det aer sa att du maste checka reglar innan du "post" en my meddelande.

I have just translated into a rough Swedish that which that section says in English. You probably understand about as much of that as I understand what is contained there in English. As always, I am not trying to be troublesome or an *******, but please remember and you should check how many over 50 year old members are asking the same questions over and over again, some of us need very simple 1-2-3 instructions how to do things.

Maybe I am totally off base, but basically all I contribute to this particular BB and many, many others is restricted to typing in words. Just in the last three weeks, I have been trying to do a lot more in the sense of contributing; pictures, links etc. but my body of knowledge/experience and trying to wade through instructions that were designed for people who have grown up with computers and the internet leave me for the most part impotent.

If you think it is worthwhile, it may be a reasonable request from myself and a large number of others in the over the hill crowd to set up in this area or somewhere else a very simple how to do the half a dozen or so tasks that involve sending data/photos/links from one place to the other.

To say again that I am not trying to pick on you, I have read Windows XP For Dummies, the instruction book that came with Windows XP (and it's earlier versions) and all the other handbooks that have come with the hardware and software that I have purchased over the last five years or so. All of them seem to expect that the purchaser has a fairly deep knowledge of how the whole thing works. Sad to say, pretty much anyone over 50 years of age hasn't a clue how it works and cannot make heads or tails of what they are trying to do. Not everyone of that age, but an awful lot of them.

Sorry for the personal rant, Steve, but I think I can guarantee you that a very large part of your membership are in that over 50 years old bracket and most of us just do the very basic stuff, read/post, read/post etc. In fact I would bet there are a hell of a lot of lurkers in that age bracket that just lurk only because they cannot fathom how to do more than look.

To put it on a more local basis, you have visited my store and although you may not have seen it first hand, we are very big into show and tell, how to do it, demonstrations etc. And, my instructions to my staff are if I can't understand it, it is too complicated for the average customer so dumb it down.
Caio
Bill

 

Well, Bill. I guess I have to bow out of this discussion because I cannot think of any more non-technical way to describe how to do this than is described on the page I provided. Perhaps someone else can come to your rescue. Aged aside, even in your business, if you are describing the engine you refer to it as the engine, not the "thingie that goes vroom vroom that makes the car go."

 

http://www.armymuseum.ru/images/ww2/fg2.jpg



Damn, sure glad I ain't 50 yet.

Bill, this is what I did:

• 1. Get image from net.
• 2. Right click on picture.
• 3. Select properties.
• 4. Triple click on address (highlight)
• 5. Right click on highlighted line. Click copy.
• 6. Go to post where you wish to post photo.
• 7. Type [img] url will appear.
• 8. At end of url type [img/].
• 9. Make smartazz comment and find the banana thingie
• 10.Post your post.

 

damn! the crucial step that I have been missing...

 

I'm glad you said 'damn' just like me.
The thread title says 'Hell' and we've got to stay on topic.

 

Raoul
Don't make it more confusing for Bill as it already is.

It's [/img] not [img/]

 

That was just a cut and paste from Bill's own post, the third one in this thread. I have enough trouble proofreading my own words.
No wonder he can only speak four languages.

p.s.

damn to hell

 

OK, smartazz, I fixed the fricking error. At least on my own cheat sheet I typed it correctly.

I did not expect any sympathy on this particular thread nor do I deserve any. I am a very stubborn son of a bitch when I am trying to learn something I really want to do. I make a nuisance of myself I am well aware, particularly when I keep asking for very simple instructions about things that may be second nature to others. But, dammit to hell, I will figure this out if it kills me.
Just like I learned those extra languages by going into the Swedish, Norwegian and Peruvian backwaters where English was hardly known and speaking to bartenders and hookers starting with sign language and eventually evolving to speaking. Damn, that was the hardest thing I ever had to do. Almost killed me.


BTW and I realize you did both, this post was on hyperlinking a thread, not a pic. That I can do now.

Ok, multiple smartazz remarks and the banana thingie. Did I do right?

Bill

 

Rockpick:

Racing Champions Ertl has just announced a King Ranch in Maroon in 1/18 scale (I assume this is their description for your color). Sad to say it is not yet on their web site but I will try to link to their Harley model here.
http://www.ertltoys.com/brand/americ..._truckin.shtml
Bill

OK, the SOB worked. Now, is there an easier way to do this than for my poor tired eyes to have to write down the thread address and then type it in here. Steve's sheet says something about putting url tags somewhere but everything I tried did not work.
I have not finished experimenting.
Bill

 

http://milhist.dk/pictures/evaluering/eval4.htm

If this one works, Raoul you can see a Danish version of a Ford of 1939 vintage as a wannabe Lightning.
Bill

 

Bill linking to a thread else where is EASY

Let me try to make it as low tech as possible...

When you are in the other forum - Using a second open copy of your Internet Browser just highlight and copy ( using steps form other instrucstions ) the contants of the address line in the browser. THEN PASTE that here .. The forum software will make it a link automatically.

To recap:

right click copy the address of the thread from the address bar - right click past that address in 2nd forum...

Click submit...

Hope this helps

Doug