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[Kätzchen]

In order to post a picture, whether the post is a stand-alone picture or a picture you want to include as an addition to a text-based post, you can follow the steps below, so a picture is visible in the post you wish to post.

Long Form Directions:

1) above the empty text box, you will see a row of formatting icons. The 4th icon is a picture of a postcard with a stamp on it, is the icon you will select when desiring to include a photo in your post.

2) On the web page of the photo you wish to include in your post, place your cursor over the internet address of the photo, right click on the address and then select "copy". Your cursor will now remember the internet address of the photo you wish to include in your post here.

3) Now, go to the row of icons above the text box here, select the post-card with a stamp" icon and another text box will appear. Inside the new text box, you will see the following highlighted: "http://". Clear this preloaded text from the box, so that the new box is empty.

4) Now that the photo stamp icon box is empty, place your cursor inside the box and right click again. Choose "Paste." The internet address for the picture you want to post will appear inside this box. Then click "Okay" in that box and your picture will appear inside the grey shaded text box that will appear in your forum board post or in the post you create on a personal message board on a friends page.

5) To post your photo, now click the "submit reply" button that appears at the bottom of the grey shaded text box and your post will appear on the forum board or as a photo in a message post on your friends page.


Short Form Directions:

1) Right click on the internet web address bar of the photo you wish to post and select "copy".

2) Return to the Planet in the forum you wish to make a photo post or on your friends personal message page and select the "post-card with a stamp" icon.

3) In the drop down menu, clear out the hyper link provided and insert the web address of the photo you wish to post by right clicking your cursor and choosing "paste" to insert the web address into the drop down menu box.

4) Click "okay" on the drop down menu box. Inside the grey shaded text box, your photo will appear.

5) To publish your photo post you will finish by selecting the "submit reply" button at the bottom of the grey shaded text box. Your photo is now published on the forum board thread or in the personal message box located on your friends page.

[Kätzchen]

In order to post a music video, you will first need to select the "YouTube" icon which appears as the last icon in the row of icons provided in the text box provided to make a post.

1) Select the "YouTube" icon. It will appear as text inside the grey shaded text box and will look like this: [.youtube.][./youtube.]

Note: 'dots' were included in the illustration above so that the poster will know how the pre-loaded icon appears as text within the text box. There will be *NO* dots in your preloaded link.

2) Inside the youtube text, you will see a space between the bars. This is where you place part of the internet address of the link to the video post you wish to appear in your post. The portion of the video link that belongs in the space between the brackets is: everything that appears in the link after the "equal" sign.

I will use an internet link for a song by Sia, as an example
(except I removed the linking ability so you can see what I am talking about):

http:// www.youtube.com/watch? v = iRpzmAMsz90

3) Insert the characters that appear in bold lettering inside the brackets.
Click "submit reply" at the bottom of your text page and your video will now appear in published form.

[Kätzchen]

This was a question I recently asked because I was making a post and when I clicked the "submit reply" button at the bottom of the text box, I discovered that I was no longer logged into the website and I lost my post.

While I am not particularly skilled at simplifying answers to questions like these, this is what I found out about my situation.

The reason why I inadvertantly was logged out when I thought I was logged in, had to do with the "Browser" I was using and not the usual issue of needing to clear out the cache of cookies that your OS stores in the section of your OS called "history".

I'm a self taught technology geek and my notebook is not the notebook is was when I bought it. My notebook now has two different platform browsers. One platform is "Firefox" and the other platform is "Flock".

In my case, I needed to be in FireFox browser mode.
Not the other. I'm still working with the other browser
and learning what I can and cannot do with my other browser.

So, if you're having a browser issue, you might need help other than the tiny bit of help I left here. I had to ask a tech geek friend of mine about my issue because I just wasn't 'getting it' until they sat down with me and showed me, on the twin OS I have on my notebook, what my specific issues were.

I am healed, for now.

[Kelt]

These are exactly the kinds of things everyone struggles with when getting started. I think it would be great if everyone subscribed to this thread so that when questions come up we can help each other as quickly as possible.

One issue that has happened to me, and without exception, everyone I have spoken to is the "disappearance" of a lengthy post and the frustration that comes with it. I wish I had a real answer, but some have said they thought it was a time issue, or like above, a mystery browser thing.

One habit I started after it happened to me was to just type up lengthy posts in some other text document and then copy and paste it over into the reply box. It can be a word processing document, or any note pad. I frequently use a draft in email and don't address it, just deleting it after it is posted. If I am out with just a phone, I use whatever default notepad app is handy.

*subscribed*

[gaea]

also subscribing.

For photos, I use photo bucket and find and store images there. I find it is less likely that a photo will be deleted if i do that.

Photobucket also has an add on feature if you are using firefox you can get the add on and then right click on any picture upload it to your photobucket and then get the link codes, it is the "direct" link code you want to use for posting pics here on the planet.

[Samurai Wanderer]

What is the difference (if any) between Visitor Message and User Notes?
Someone posted a Visitor Message at my profile and I didn't know how to reply, so went to their profile and sent a User Note thinking it was the same thing

[Electrocell]

Originally Posted by Samurai Wanderer

What is the difference (if any) between Visitor Message and User Notes?
Someone posted a Visitor Message at my profile and I didn't know how to reply, so went to their profile and sent a User Note thinking it was the same thing

It's according to how they have their settings set . If you can't post a visitor message it's because you aren't on their friends or contacts list. They will still get the message in their user notes however.

[puddin']

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

In order to post a picture, whether the post is a stand-alone picture or a picture you want to include as an addition to a text-based post, you can follow the steps below, so a picture is visible in the post you wish to post.

Long Form Directions:

1) above the empty text box, you will see a row of formatting icons. The 4th icon is a picture of a postcard with a stamp on it, is the icon you will select when desiring to include a photo in your post.

2) On the web page of the photo you wish to include in your post, place your cursor over the internet address of the photo, right click on the address and then select "copy". Your cursor will now remember the internet address of the photo you wish to include in your post here.

3) Now, go to the row of icons above the text box here, select the post-card with a stamp" icon and another text box will appear. Inside the new text box, you will see the following highlighted: "http://". Clear this preloaded text from the box, so that the new box is empty.

4) Now that the photo stamp icon box is empty, place your cursor inside the box and right click again. Choose "Paste." The internet address for the picture you want to post will appear inside this box. Then click "Okay" in that box and your picture will appear inside the grey shaded text box that will appear in your forum board post or in the post you create on a personal message board on a friends page.

5) To post your photo, now click the "submit reply" button that appears at the bottom of the grey shaded text box and your post will appear on the forum board or as a photo in a message post on your friends page.


Short Form Directions:

1) Right click on the internet web address bar of the photo you wish to post and select "copy".

2) Return to the Planet in the forum you wish to make a photo post or on your friends personal message page and select the "post-card with a stamp" icon.

3) In the drop down menu, clear out the hyper link provided and insert the web address of the photo you wish to post by right clicking your cursor and choosing "paste" to insert the web address into the drop down menu box.

4) Click "okay" on the drop down menu box. Inside the grey shaded text box, your photo will appear.

5) To publish your photo post you will finish by selecting the "submit reply" button at the bottom of the grey shaded text box. Your photo is now published on the forum board thread or in the personal message box located on your friends page.

when I try this (both long and short version) at "step 4", the photo doesn't appear. only text??!!

is there something I need to do in my settings or sumpin' to make this work?

please and thank you...

[Parker]

Originally Posted by puddin'

when I try this (both long and short version) at "step 4", the photo doesn't appear. only text??!!

is there something I need to do in my settings or sumpin' to make this work?

please and thank you...

Hey puddin' - have you checked out the BFP how-to video showing how to post pics? That might be easier than written out directions or even the directions I did earlier in this thread that included pics.

[puddin']

have done. i'm jus' a sad sack. i can't make it happen. *wah, wah, wah*

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by puddin'

have done. i'm jus' a sad sack. i can't make it happen. *wah, wah, wah*

Lucky for you, I'm up late tonight and had time to consult a manual for your specific problem.
Here's what I found out :

• A - There's a good chance that the reason the formula offered to help you post a picture, does not fit your specific device.
• B - Your device possibly comes with a complicated language suite which, when the user (you) tries to make a post with a picture, the language suite cannot properly untangle the mishap between New Zealand semantics vs. English-based speaker semantix.
• C - Speaking of New Zealand, I found out that it's nearly 8K+ miles from the US mainland, therefore, because you're there and we're here, there's a slight chance that applying a remedy might work.
• D - The Remedy: According to the fake diagnostic manual in my library of manuals, it recommends, and it's not a light suggestion either, to find the nearest Femme in your neighborhood (or town) and pull them aside to show them your device and explain to them how you need their help to figure out what to do next. Fortunately, this remedy duals as a back-door approach to flirting with said Femme from your hometown neighborhood and also acts as a natural invitation to join you at this website, whereby both of you will naturally become the best of friends and therefore, it's likely you'll not only solve the "why I can't post a picture" problem, but also benefit by having an enjoyable mutual dialogue with a beautiful Femme who resides near you.

Seriously though, I'm not sure how to help you. But I'm thinking that it's an issue directly associated with the device you are using. Are you using a computer (i.e., a notebook or a desktop or something like that)?? Or, are you using a particular kind of phone (Android)? I think possibly if you talk it over with Parker or Linus (if they've got some spare time on hand), maybe either one of them will be able to help you figure it out. If not them, maybe another member on the boards will be able to help you sort it out; hopefully they'll come along soon!


Sorry, puddin', I wish I could have been more helpful
(I'm hoping my fake analysis gave you a laugh or two, though).

[Parker]

Originally Posted by puddin'

have done. i'm jus' a sad sack. i can't make it happen. *wah, wah, wah*

I had a thought - I was thinking of posting a pic of something in a thread but posting it to my gallery first, then I remembered that you (general you) cant grab the url of the pic from the galleries here bc you cant right click the pics (to keep people who dont own them from saving them, I assume), so I was going to grab the link in the address bar and just link to the pic in my gallery.

It made me wonder where you are getting the url for the pic(s) you want to post in threads/sig - are you right clicking and selecting "copy image url" or are you grabbing the link from the address bar?

[puddin']

afta my initial frustration... i went back, re-watched da video, and lo and behold i can do it!!!!

thank you one and all...

[puddin']

i'm so freakin' tickled i figured dis out, wit' a little help from me friends.

it makes me happy.

ta...

[C0LLETTE]

" above the empty text box, you will see a row of formatting icons. The 4th icon is a picture of a postcard with a stamp on it, is the icon you will select when desiring to include a photo in your post. "


Do the formatting icons only appear for folks with paid subscriptions? Also, is this what is meant by "attachments"? .. where it says that "You may not post attachments" I know, I know!!!but I have almost zero tech vocabulary..........

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

" above the empty text box, you will see a row of formatting icons. The 4th icon is a picture of a postcard with a stamp on it, is the icon you will select when desiring to include a photo in your post. "


Do the formatting icons only appear for folks with paid subscriptions? Also, is this what is meant by "attachments"? .. where it says that "You may not post attachments" I know, I know!!!but I have almost zero tech vocabulary..........

Hey C0LLETTE-

You should be able to see them no matter what your subscription level.

Try this video for a visual help!

Originally Posted by How To

In this video, I go over how to post pics from the web
into threads and into visitor messages on profiles.

[Medusa]

And can I just say a HUGE 'Thank You' for our How-To videos? Pretty awesome for someone to take the time to do that to help out other folks!!!

[C0LLETTE]

Add my sincere thanks please though I think I need to do a lot of practising ..somewhere off to the side maybe lol.