question about doohickies on this forum...

[jodi]

Ok.  When you look at the individual  posts, there it a little page icon to the left of the title at the top of each post.  What does that do?

Jodi

[Nina_too]

I think it's the default message icon.  Look just below the subject line when you're entering your message text.  "Standard" is the little screen.  I've chosen the lamp which (I hope) will generate this lovely little lightbulb.

[Floristan]

OK, so how do you get photos into your posts?

[chickering9]

OK, so how do you get photos into your posts?

You have to have the picture stored on some external server that allows an outside link from here to access it and call it up to this space.

(Assuming Windows OS)

If you have a picture of your own uploaded to a server or someone else's on a website you want to link to, right click the picture in a browser, or its name in a directory on the server and choose left-click "Properties".  Then highlight the entire "URL Properties" field to include the entire name and directory, all the way from the "http//:" through the directory names and through the entire picture name (it may often be more than one line and may include extra characters like numbers and symbols, depending on the OS of the server system).  Once that's highlighted, right-click in that highlighted area and then left-click "Copy".  This stores that URL on your Windows clipboard temporarily.

Then while in the message composition window here, you use that little picture icon, second from the left on the lower row of buttons.  When you left-click that button, it inserts characters inside of brackets with "img" and "/img" in between each pair--these are book-ended commands that establish the beginning and end of a routine--in this case, displaying a picture.  Park the cursor in between the two brackets separating the pairs.  Right click your mouse and select "Paste".  This will put the URL for your external picture which was stored in the Windows clipboard into that space.  Then when you post the message, this program will assemble your text stored here and that picture which is actually stored outside of here and display them together as if they were here together.  ("Preview" will show you the pictures and text so you can be sure before posting that linking to the external picture URL worked.)

You may have some storage space with your internet service provider where you can upload files to a public server, but you will need to check to see if it the server allows remote linking.  (The easy way is to just upload files to that space then try it.)  Otherwise, there are free temporary web-hosting services, like PhotoBucket, Ofoto, and others, but they are really only reliable for short-term linking (sometimes as short as mere hours but generally a few days).

[Axtremus]

Not only is it a "default icon," it also contains a web link right back to this post. So let's say you're reading one post on this window, and you're composing a reply on that window, and you want to reference THIS EXACT POST in that  post, you'd go right click on that "default icon" doohickey and select "copy shortcut," then go over to that post you're composing there and paste the web address into your link doohickey... that way, you link to a specific post instead of link to a thread or a page from a thread. It works the same way too on that other universe!

(off topic)
I'm still shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you!

[ehpianist]

Thanks Axtremus (hi!  ) .  I had always wondered how to do that in the other universe.

Elena
https://www.pianofourhands.com