ain't it just lovely to see...kinglear#1 wrote:The above few posts show why this board is so popular. People care.
How to apply an avatar.
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Can you just use an image from Google Image? i tried recently and it didnt work.....unless it was just me being a plank
I did mine last week and other than a bit of resizing I had no problems. I did a search for how to do it and i think KIR had put some good instructions up in a thread. He'll know.
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Username Taken just messaged me about this. I figured I would post my response here in case anyone else is having this issue.
I can see the problem. The URL that you are attempting to use (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/207/invalid.png/) is not an image. It is a page with an embedded image (in fact, several embedded images). If you go to that page in a browser, there are some options to the right of the image:
Click on 'Embed this image':
Then copy the forum code:When posted to the forum, that code is rendered as follows:Code: Select all
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/207/invalid.png/][IMG]http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2418/invalid.png[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=http://imageshack.us]ImageShack.us[/URL]
The reason why you're receiving that error on the avatar page is because the URL you are submitting is not an image.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
To get the image URL for an avatar, instead of clicking on 'Embed this image', you should click on 'Links to share this image'. Get the direct link. (Unfortunately, this requires you to sign up for an ImageShack account.)
Personally, I don't bother with ImageShack. I find imgur.com to be much easier. You can just drag and drop your image from your computer to the imgur homepage (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox) and it gives you the forum embedding code and the direct link without any signup required.
Let me know if you need any more help.
Sambo
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>>>I find imgur.com to be much easier.
>>>You can just drag and drop your image from your computer
>>>to the imgur homepage (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox)
>>>and it gives you the forum embedding code and the direct link without any signup required.
It must be me but I tried this and it told me {The URL you specified is invalid.}
What line do I copy and paste from imgur?
KennyF
>>>You can just drag and drop your image from your computer
>>>to the imgur homepage (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox)
>>>and it gives you the forum embedding code and the direct link without any signup required.
It must be me but I tried this and it told me {The URL you specified is invalid.}
What line do I copy and paste from imgur?
KennyF
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- For an avatar, the one that says "Direct Link (email & IM)".Goodoldkenny wrote:It must be me but I tried this and it told me {The URL you specified is invalid.}
What line do I copy and paste from imgur?
- For embedding in a post, the one that says "BBCode (message boards & forums)".
I just threw together a video of the process for embedding an image in your post:
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Goodoldkenny wrote:>>>I find imgur.com to be much easier.
>>>You can just drag and drop your image from your computer
>>>to the imgur homepage (assuming you're using Chrome or Firefox)
>>>and it gives you the forum embedding code and the direct link without any signup required.
It must be me but I tried this and it told me {The URL you specified is invalid.}
What line do I copy and paste from imgur?
KennyF
give me your account details and i'll sort you out
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Weird. Got it to work at last
I had to nominate to edit the pic in imgur and then save it (without editing anything) and then it worked.
The only other forum I use you simply upload to the forum without going through a third party so I didn't have any experience with this method.
Thanks for that. I was pulling out what little hair I have left.
KennyF
I had to nominate to edit the pic in imgur and then save it (without editing anything) and then it worked.
The only other forum I use you simply upload to the forum without going through a third party so I didn't have any experience with this method.
Thanks for that. I was pulling out what little hair I have left.
KennyF
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