| BigHam |
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| 14/09/2007 16:14 |
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How to Host Images
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Get your image and host it online at either:
<a href="www.imageshack.us" target="_blank">Imageshack</a>
Or
<a href="www.photobucket.com" target="_blank">photobucket</a>
Then copy the direct URL to the image and click the IMAGE button in the instant mark up area.
Or simply put the link between these:
[image][/image]
If this happens:
Then you have gone wrong somewhere.
Or you can post a forum friendly link directly from photobucket or imageshack.(Thanks Biggles)
Hope this is helpful
| Biggles |
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| 14/09/2007 16:25 |
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Great stuff! This should be a sticky in FAQ's
You might want to add that you can copy a Forum friendly link for the image in photo bucket and then paste as you have described.
| makka |
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| 14/09/2007 22:45 |
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nice work BigHam.
Must go to FAQ surely
| immy |
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| 14/05/2008 20:08 |
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So if I can do images from PhotoBucket why cant I upload an avatar from the same Photobucket? It seems I have to store a piccy on local disc- reduce it then upload it on to here. So why 2 different imaging systems??
| Biggles |
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| 15/05/2008 08:36 |
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I think it is because the "system" copies your avatar for frequent use. Your avatar appears on all your posts everywhere at once. This is also why it needs to be small data wise.
Where as the pic of your latest sprocket enhancement is just referenced once or twice on a post.
| BigHam |
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| 15/05/2008 13:54 |
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Yep, pretty much right biggles, some forums do allow you to use an avatar hosted elsewhere, but they still have to be small for the reasons above.
The avatar we upload is hosted locally on the SB server.
| makka |
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| 15/05/2008 22:00 |
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Hey Big Ham,
do you work for SB.
I'm so thick I never realised
| BigHam |
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| 16/05/2008 11:26 |
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I'm flattered that you think I do, but no I don't. Wouldn't mind though Kenny.
| skidqueen |
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| 19/05/2008 18:58 |
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help! i tried what you said but my pic hasnt gone on my profile it has gone on the tech forum page? how does i make it my prof pic#????
| chappers |
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| 19/05/2008 20:29 |
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you mean avatar, needs to be 80x80 pixels and less than 10,000kb then on the avatar options click browse and find the piccy on your puter click on it then click save and it should upload.
| makka |
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| 19/05/2008 23:56 |
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I have a Macintosh and it often doesn't seem to work but then I tried it on another browser and the new one was there.
Back on the original and it was the old one. Even on my posts. Bizzare.
Gifs seem to work better for me.
| xxrider |
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| 20/05/2008 08:17 |
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OK skidqueen, this should work......
Use photobucket or some other image host to resize your chosen piccie to avatar size, 80x80 or less. Save it as a .gif image somewhere in your 'puter where you can find it.
On this here forum, click 'user options' at the top of the screen, find the main configuration section, and next to personal information, click 'edit'.
Scroll down to the avatar bit, click 'browse' and find your pic.
Click 'upload your avatar', then click change. Click 'submit' at the bottom of the screen. Job done.
Unless I've got it wrong.
Again.
| Biggles |
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| 20/05/2008 10:43 |
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I have a Macintosh and it often doesn't seem to work but then I tried it on another browser and the new one was there.
Back on the original and it was the old one. Even on my posts. Bizzare.
Gifs seem to work better for me.
I have had the exact same thing. The old avatar appears *but* after a few hours the new one showed up. Firefox as a browser seems to work better with the Forum on the Mac.
| makka |
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| 20/05/2008 22:16 |
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Yup, I gave up on Safari.
| Biggles |
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| 21/05/2008 10:35 |
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Just found out that for once the people at Apple have used non standard code in their browser, or rather made their browser not respond to some old standard code.
As a response to a security issue, apparently the Javascript used to make rollovers work was deemed insecure (in Explora would you believe), so they changed how Safari responds-this has effected all kinds of things, not only rollovers, and not only Safari.
Anything that uses certain aspects of javascript on the mac at the mo might well suffer. Apparently Quicktime VR software has been severely affected by this move too.
| skidqueen |
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| 21/05/2008 16:07 |
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oh my god, i want to kiss you, in 2 different forums you've helped me, it worked as you can see
mwwwwwwahhh
thanks mate
| xxrider |
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| 21/05/2008 16:53 |
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Quote:
Just found out that for once the people at Apple have used non standard code in their browser, or rather made their browser not respond to some old standard code.
As a response to a security issue, apparently the Javascript used to make rollovers work was deemed insecure (in Explora would you believe), so they changed how Safari responds-this has effected all kinds of things, not only rollovers, and not only Safari.
Anything that uses certain aspects of javascript on the mac at the mo might well suffer. Apparently Quicktime VR software has been severely affected by this move too.
Once I've passed by evening class in Greek, I'm sure the above will make sense to me......
| FastBikerBoy |
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| 24/05/2008 06:43 |
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If javascript security is an issue for anyone use firefox and download "NoScript" as an add on. Then you can pick and choose what sites you let run java scripts.
| Biggles |
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| 24/05/2008 16:42 |
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I have no probs with JS - it is the black hats who have been abusing some JS savvi apps. Hence the folk at Apple (and now Mircosoft) starting to reduce the way that JS is and can be used.
| immy |
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| 23/07/2008 21:28 |
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Im a Dinosaur BUT its the 21st c sooo on this site-why do I ave to use:
1. another site to upload piccys?
2 another site to upload avater???(cant spell)
ANNDDD
3 yet another bleeding site to upload a vid?
3 bleeding diiferent sites???
Cant SB do it all on the same site or is it too differcult? or am I that stupid, careful I will find you
| makka |
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| 23/07/2008 22:05 |
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They've been nagged so many times to get a decent forum architecture so I'm guessing it's not going to happen.
This one is the crappiest working forum I visit.
Thankfully the content makes up for it.
| BigHam |
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| 24/07/2008 07:32 |
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It's all to do with storage and bandwith I expect. Although I can't see how avatars would matter that much to be honest.
| FastBikerBoy |
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| 24/07/2008 08:23 |
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They've been nagged so many times to get a decent forum architecture so I'm guessing it's not going to happen.
This one is the crappiest working forum I visit.
Thankfully the content makes up for it.
+1
Scores out of 10
Content 10
Presentation -1
Style -1
Ease of use -1
Speed -1
The sad/annoying thing is, there's so much better forum software out there and it's FREE so what's the excuse?
| chappers |
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| 24/07/2008 11:40 |
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Am I the only person on here that couldn't give a shit? I admit it can be a PITA but hey that's life init.
| immy |
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| 24/07/2008 20:28 |
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Am I the only person on here that couldn't give a shit? I admit it can be a PITA but hey that's life init. <img src="http://superbike.co.uk/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Do you mean as in "bread"
full of chopped lamb and salad that you only eat on Saturady night when your pissed? 
| chappers |
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| 24/07/2008 20:45 |
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Smartarse.
| KwH |
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| 22/08/2008 11:13 |
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They've been nagged so many times to get a decent forum architecture so I'm guessing it's not going to happen.
This one is the crappiest working forum I visit.
Thankfully the content makes up for it.
That it is. However, I twigged something the other day - it isn't just Superbike, check out the online presence of other IPC mags. Everything from the knitting mags to the horsey mags uses the same shitty UBBThreads software, presumably all implemented on one central server somewhere, and centrally administered (for quite small values of administered, obviously). So, if the denizens of "Braying hoorays on future glue sticks Monthly" or "Joy of Knitting Weekly" know no better and are quite happy with what they have, our minority seething discontent is rather irrelevant. Also, the pervasive nature of UBBThreads and the way it has been integrated into the various different magazine webshites would make the project to roll something better out and migrate all the data across to it a bit more of a challenge (a complwete bastard actually) and an expensive, high-risk one at that.
SO in other words, IPC's Web Knobbers fucked up when they chose a forum tool, and now they (and we) are realistically stuck with it for as long as it doesn't seriously shit itself and start costing money to keep running...
| makka |
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| 22/08/2008 13:20 |
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Sounds like we need....
superhacker
da da da daaaaaaaaaaa.
Any volunteers?
adowds
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| 22/09/2008 14:07 |
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If I had six months sharing a cell with you on remand, with nothing to do other than discuss how poorly IPC is managing its digital functions, we still wouldn't get to the end of it.
One of the main problems appears to me to be a strategic decision to, essentially, write all the software we need ourselves, in-house. This is good because we have control over it. But it's bad because it all takes ages and we're a media company not a software company.
Also, we're ultimately owned by a US firm, which is very sensitive about security and 'compliance' online. So anything we'd like to do on this website has to be given the nod by clever folks across the pond. It seems that this doesn't ever make anything happen with any haste.
But. Apparently there is some new forum software coming along. I'm not holding my breath...
| FastBikerBoy |
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| 22/09/2008 15:29 |
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....has to be given the nod by clever folks across the pond
'Needle' and 'haystack' are 2 words that spring to mind there...
| Brigadoon |
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| 02/10/2008 11:30 |
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Or simply put the link between these:
[image][/image]
I think it would work if that was actually [img][/img]
| KwH |
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| 03/10/2008 14:47 |
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One of the main problems appears to me to be a strategic decision to, essentially, write all the software we need ourselves, in-house. This is good because we have control over it. But it's bad because it all takes ages and we're a media company not a software company.
This is actually the first error of IT knobbers everywhere and has more to do with empire building, egotism and an inability to admit a gross error than any kind of common sense. As you have no doubt noticed.
The driving conceit that is used to justify all this is 'We are speshhhulllll and different and unique, and nobody else has ever wanted to run a multi-product multimedia CMS driven publication on the internet before so of course we need to write our own!' - a conceit fostered by the IT Director who gets an enormous team of flunkeys and a huge budget and makes him or herself indispensable by owning the enormous white elephant that (barely) keeps the company in business.
Any superior control is illusory, because the effort required to change anything is so great, the resources so comparatively limited and the economies of scale so completely absent, and in any case, by the time you can think of something completely that would give you a unique business advantage, and incorporate it into your bespoke system, 9 times out of 10 somebody out there in intyernetland has already incorporated it into one of the off the shelf vertical market products that did 90% of what the in-house developed tool was originally planned to do at a tenth of the projected cost back when development first started, and which has a current version that has a clear supported upgrade path from that then current version that now does circa 250% of what the bespoke CMS actually does and growing, whilst actuially costing a 20th of the actual cost of the bespoke 'solution'.
It makes about as much sense as unilaterally deciding to grow your own trees, mill your own paper, and mix your own inks in order to differentiate your magazine from the competition. And works just about as well...
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But. Apparently there is some new forum software coming along. I'm not holding my breath...
"Biggles, Ginger! Squadron of Gloucester Old-Spot, three o'clock high! Coming down now! Break! Break! Tally-ho!"
| BigHam |
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| 03/10/2008 14:49 |
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I think it would work if that was actually [img][/img]
Actually if you click the instant mark up image button, once you've put the link in it slaps them between [image] tags.
img tags also work like they do on any other forum, but [image] is probably easier/more logical for those unfamilar with forums to understand.