Posting Pictures from Photo Sharing Sites (A visual guide)

[jtailspin]

Can someone direct me to instructions on how to make the little flickr link in your signature instead of link that I'm presently using ?

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by jtailspin

Can someone direct me to instructions on how to make the little flickr link in your signature instead of link that I'm presently using ?

wulf made a great tutorial on how to do that

[jtailspin]

Thanks much, I thank that looks so much better. I'll get to work on it right now.

[jtailspin]

It works, hurray !!

[RussHeath]

I've followed your excellent guide carefully, and all I get when I copy the HTML is this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russheath/1209901383/" title="Photo Sharing">http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1245/1209901383_a6e871326c.jpg" width="500" height="305" alt="Blue Dawn" />

I can't figure it out! I originally thought it was a problem with my flickr account being new, and not "reviewed" yet. However, my pics are now available by public search on flickr which would indicate my account has been reviewed.

Any suggestions? I'm tired of only being able to post links!

[Nicole]

Your problem might not be your fault actually... There was someone a while back (I can't quite remember who) who had problems with copying and pasting the code because Flickr cut it off. I'm not sure what they did to fix it. The workaround they were using was to paste the text into a text file / word document then recopy and paste it into their post. I'm actually really not sure why yours isn't working... I just tried fixing the html and it still came up strangely. Hmmm....

[Nicole]

I managed to get your picture to work... but I had to fix the html code because for some reason it wasn't all there. Double check that everything is getting selected when you copy the text from Flickr, try the word document work around and see if that helps. This problem had us all pretty perplexed last time because it doesn't seem to happen to everyone

[RussHeath]

Thanks so much, Nicole! Above is the exact same code as in my previous reply, but I did as you suggested and copied it to a word file prior to inserting the HTML into the forum. Maybe it's a problem with my default text style?

Thanks again! I'm going to go fix some of my previous posts.

[Nicole]

Glad that worked! I have no idea why it does that for some people, but at least you've got some sort of solution

[RussHeath]

Thanks again! I just edited several of my posts.

I'll play with it a little and see if I can figure out what part of the code is getting lost in the copy process. Hopefully our discussion here will help some other folks that might have had the same issue.