How to embed an image in your post.

[WHT]

This questing has come up a few times, so I'll start a new topic. I posted it in Wireless Networking
as it would be more likely seen instead of the Forum Problems.

Images can't be "uploaded" per se, like in Photobucket.

In the forum here, you have to point the image tag to a URL .

So you have two options...use the URL tag to point to an image outside of the forum,
or use the Img tag to embed the image into your post.

What's the difference? If you have a really big photo or drawing, it might not render
too well in a forum post, so its better to point it off site.

Option 1 - point to an image outside of the forum.
Copy and paste the URL of the image into the post, it will look like:
http://forum.ubnt.com/forum/images/rank_ubntmod1.gif

It will automatically render as a hyper link because the forum engine senses the http prefix.

Now drag you mouse over the link and highlight it, then click on the URL icon and it will
enclose the link with the [ url ] (image address) [ /url ]
http://forum.ubnt.com/forum/images/rank_ubntmod1.gif
The underline will be removed and will be in orange text.

Option 2 - embed the image in your post.
Copy the image on your computer and rename it too something else to preserve the
original image. Then resize the copy to a smaller size.

Upload the resized copy image to your website or Photobucket. Copy the URL of the image.

Copy and paste the URL of the image into the post, it will look like:
http://forum.ubnt.com/forum/images/rank_ubntmod1.gif

It will automatically render as a hyper link because the forum engine senses the http prefix.

Now drag you mouse over the link and highlight it, then click on the Img icon and it will
enclose the link with the [ img ] (image address) [ /img ]
http://forum.ubnt.com/forum/images/rank_ubntmod1.gif