Posting a Photograph. Instructions.

Often the most common question seems to be, "How do I post a picture?"

Please note You may wish to resize the image before uploading!

Here's the quickest way to post a photograph or video:

It is recommended that you visit Photobucket or other image uploading website location and establish an account.  A Photobucket account.  It's free!!!!

1. Travel to photobucket.com

2. Sign up for free account

3. Upload images or videos from your computer.

[You may wish to create a file folder on your home computer to store the images you wish to upload.  This may help to ensure that you will not lose the images.  Often there are unforeseen problems later.  Perhaps you will title the digital folder "MyName" or Photobucket account.  We know not.  The choice is yours.]

4. Once having uploaded your preferred image, copy the second line of HTML offered in your photo album.  It will be labeled, "tag."

The code will begin with "< a href= "and include "="http://photobucket.com/">
I cannot include the code as it is written or you will not be able to see it.  As written, it will be an active link.

You will not need that first portion.  It links back to the Photobucket site.

You will need and use the portion that states, < img src="http://####.photobucket.com/albums/xxxx/account name/file name" border="0" >" minus the spaces placed before and after the "<" and ">" symbols.

I apologize for any confusion.  Without these spaces, you would see only the image and not the Script that you need.

Thus, < img src="http://www.linketylink"> is the portion you will want to use in your diaries and comments.

5. Paste said HTML into comment or diary text box.

6. Click "Post."  Voila. You, dear diarist have posted a picture.

In whatever image uploading website location you choose, you may wish to establish an account. A Photobucket account is free!!!!

You are limited.  you may only store and upload a given number of images.  We will have to determine what that number is.  For now, we know not.

The vital factor to consider in uploading and placing your images is size!  This helps to determine the number you may upload and store.  More importantly for our purposes, a large image will break the margins on our site and cause a calamity that none of us wishes to experience.

If you are a collector of photographs, you may wish to pay the nominal fee to upgrade to unlimited storage space.

Once you properly size and upload your image you will use the "tag" script that Photobucket offers.  However, you do not need the first portion or the end.  You only need "< img src="http: [the image link descriptor, ending with the term [.jpg border="0"] >

Eliminate the bracket used around [jpg and border="0"] to assist in explaining.

It is courteous, and perhaps necessary to constrain the width of the picture to avoid breaking the margins of diaries and comment threads.

For example minus the spaces placed after the "<" and before "img," a script constraining the image size might look like this: < img src="http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/bcgntn/WhyWr.jpg" border="0" width="400" >

With the spaces the image will not show.  Thus, for demonstration purposes, they were placed in this writing.

After removing the spaces after the '<' and before the '>', the picture would look like this:

Generally, photographs and images are constrained to a 400-pixel width as above.

Please always preview comments and diaries to ensure they look good and are working well.

Please add tips as you discover.  Additional formatting tags and techniques will assist others in their exploration.

Please practice to your heart's content and share what you learn!!!  There is always room to grow greater in our joint wisdom.

Please ask others for assistance.

Beckon BeThink.

Often others know what we cannot imagine.  Please collaborate, discover, communicate, and teach all of us what you know.

If you might advance the wisdom here among BeThink users, please do.  Add your comments. What have you learned in your personal explorations; what do you know.  Please enlighten us.  I do love learning. I believe BeThink users do.  May we grow greater together.