Update: You cannot upload images directly to the Tripawd Forums. You can however, easily embed images that are hosted anywhere else online. Photos can be uploaded to all Tripawds Blogs, so if you do not have your photos on an online sharing site, upload them to your blog and follow these instructions to embed them here in the forums.

Facebook and Photobucket users, you may find some helpful instructions here too.

To display the Post Editor, click "Add a New Topic" or "Reply to Post".

You will then see a text field to enter your topic name and a large box for writing your entry. At the top of this box are buttons for styling text and adding photos …

The button with the small tree will open the window shown, allowing you to enter the location of any image hosted online. Add a description, click "Insert" and your image will appear in the editor. You can then select the image and drag the corner to resize it …

NOTE: Please size your images no larger than 500± pixels wide to maintain proper layout of the forums.

EDIT: The screenshot images shown at left are from an earlier version of the forums, but they are similar and the instructions remain the same.

Step by Step Instructions:

1. Optimize your image for web display, 400×300 should suffice.
2. Upload your photo to your blog or other online photo sharing site.
3. Right click the image and "Copy Image Location" for the photo.
4. Draft your forum post and place cursor where you want photo embedded.
5. Select Insert/edit image button.
6. Paste Image URL and add description.
7. Click Insert.
8. Resize image as desired.
9. Save post.

NOTE: If the Insert/Edit Image tool icon does not appear when drafting forum posts or replies, set your default post editor to Rich Text (Tiny MCE).

Hmmmm … darn gremlins!

Hopefully this was a glitch. Let us know if the issue continues in other threads or when you start a new topic. And I'll have my people ask around on the SimpleForum forums. 

If it does happen again, please report back with your operating system, the browser you use, and whether or not you were logged in at the time.

Thanks!

micki z said:

ok, I tried linking a word in my post to my blog URL and it links back to your store Jerry…now what?

I fixed that link in your other post for you. The URL you referenced above was not the one in the link field. How our store page got there is beyond me. Be sure to copy and paste the URL you want to link to. And review it to be sure before you save the post.

And remember, you can embed images directly in your post by using the image button () instead of linking to them. Just paste in the location of the image file, not the page it displays on. To get an image URL, right click on the photo and copy the image location.

k9nkid said:

…image type wasn’t supported -using jpeg file any ideas

There have been a couple image hosting websites that don't seem to play nice with the embed image tool. It appears that sites requiring log-in to view images don't work.