Posting picture

[Sheryl]

Hi - not sure this forum is the place to ask but --- I followed the directions for posting my picture and all I'm seeing is an empty box with a little red "x" in the upper left hand corner.  I right clicked on "show picture" and still nothing.  I also see this on a few other photos.  Where did I go wrong?  I went through Photobucket.
Thanks,
Sheryl

[leapyrtwins]

Best person to give you advice on this - as far as I recall - is Steve Gerrard (sgerrard).  He's not on the Forum as much as he used to be, but maybe if you PM him he can give you some advice.

Good luck,

Jan

[sgerrard]

Sheryl,

You put the "img" markups around the URL of your image. This is an easy mistake, since you need those if you are putting a picture in a post. However, you don't need them (and can't have them) when you are putting a URL in your forum profile under "I have my own pic".

So, to put a picture in a post, I would enter

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[img]http://stevegerrard.home.comcast.net/me-hat-3.JPG[/img]

But to put one in my profile, I would just enter

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http://stevegerrard.home.comcast.net/me-hat-3.JPG

By the way, I would crop that picture close to a square if you are going to use it for your profile. Otherwise it will get sqeezed up.

Steve

[Sheryl]

Hi - thanks for the reply.  Still have not had luck - could be because with computers and abbreviations (IMG, JPG, HTML) I'm lost.  Hopefully I'll just stumble upon it.
Sheryl