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johnfowles · 06-12-2006, 07:12 PM

OK I am now back at the drawing board:-

so to continue by taking Omer's CN Tower picture as an example, when I had originally uploaded it to image shack
I was presented with no less than 9 links

Links 1-4

links 5-9
and in my first posting to start this topic above I only showed four of them
However for that particular uploaded image, in "my images" at imageshack there are now 5 code examples which I have designated A to E below
1.Embeddable Code:
1.1 UBB for forums
A [IMG]http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx "forums"
1.2 "direct" i.e. straight standard HTMLwith a mouseover text attribute called for by the alt="the text" attribute
B <img src="http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" />
2humbnail Code:For
2.1 HTML for sites
C <a href="http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cntowertoronto3yx.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>
2.2 UBB for forums
D [ URL=http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cntowertoronto3yx.jpg][IMG] http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.th.jpg[/IMG][/url]
Note in order to prevent the thumbnail in example d from appearing I have inserted a spaces between thed[ and url=http at the beginning and also between the [img] and the http half way along
omitted then it should be a clickable thumb

YES! Success on a plate!!
and the fifth is the basic site direct URL (or address)
E http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6...toronto3yx.jpg
So in effect they give three postable choices for use in UBB forums like these 3 corfid ones which all have UBB code enabled but not HTML
1.to show the picture only full sized use code A above
2. alternatively to show the thumbnail, automatically created and then also stored by image shack as a clickable link to the full sized picture use codeD and add a suitable instruction example "click this small thumbnail to opem the full sized picture "
3. If you only want to show the full sized picture's actual location by showing its URL/Address as a clickable hyperlink
use E and to be polite type in an instruction to click it
examples of these three obviously appear above.
Note that the "clever clogs" posting as "Fading Away" above jumped the gun and deduced that code A was in fact as I had showed in all 4 of the initial links that I had pasted in my opening posting but they all had the extra "th" included to signify that they referred to the thumbnail version so that all he had to do was copy and paste with the "th" omitted between the [img] and [/img] tags
Finally all of this is good basic research and practice to help me write my definitive picture manipulation tutorial of course

Sir Uncle John Fowles

[ June 12, 2006, 22:01: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

06-12-2006, 07:12 PM	#5
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	OK I am now back at the drawing board:- so to continue by taking Omer's CN Tower picture as an example, when I had originally uploaded it to image shack I was presented with no less than 9 links Links 1-4 links 5-9 and in my first posting to start this topic above I only showed four of them However for that particular uploaded image, in "my images" at imageshack there are now 5 code examples which I have designated A to E below 1.Embeddable Code: 1.1 UBB for forums A [IMG]http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx "forums" 1.2 "direct" i.e. straight standard HTMLwith a mouseover text attribute called for by the alt="the text" attribute B <img src="http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /> 2humbnail Code:For 2.1 HTML for sites C <a href="http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cntowertoronto3yx.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.th.jpg" border="0" /></a> 2.2 UBB for forums D [ URL=http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cntowertoronto3yx.jpg][IMG] http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6044/cntowertoronto3yx.th.jpg[/IMG][/url] Note in order to prevent the thumbnail in example d from appearing I have inserted a spaces between thed[ and url=http at the beginning and also between the [img] and the http half way along omitted then it should be a clickable thumb YES! Success on a plate!! and the fifth is the basic site direct URL (or address) E http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6...toronto3yx.jpg So in effect they give three postable choices for use in UBB forums like these 3 corfid ones which all have UBB code enabled but not HTML 1.to show the picture only full sized use code A above 2. alternatively to show the thumbnail, automatically created and then also stored by image shack as a clickable link to the full sized picture use codeD and add a suitable instruction example "click this small thumbnail to opem the full sized picture " 3. If you only want to show the full sized picture's actual location by showing its URL/Address as a clickable hyperlink use E and to be polite type in an instruction to click it examples of these three obviously appear above. Note that the "clever clogs" posting as "Fading Away" above jumped the gun and deduced that code A was in fact as I had showed in all 4 of the initial links that I had pasted in my opening posting but they all had the extra "th" included to signify that they referred to the thumbnail version so that all he had to do was copy and paste with the "th" omitted between the [img] and [/img] tags Finally all of this is good basic research and practice to help me write my definitive picture manipulation tutorial of course Sir Uncle John Fowles [ June 12, 2006, 22:01: Message edited by: johnfowles ]