wmansir
5th December 2004, 06:03
In order for your attachment to appear in a post it has to first be approved by a moderator. This can take some time because we don't get any notification. I try to check the approval page every day, but sometimes I forget, which means unless I spot your post and see that it should have an attachment it could take a while. Note: Since most attachments are feedback for jdobbs you should know that even if your attachment isn't approved for the public, as a moderator jdobbs can still see it.
In order to make this a bit more reliable here's some guidelines to follow:
If you're posting an image (jpg,jpeg,gif,bmp,png) I recommend you DON'T POST IT AS AN ATTACHMENT. Instead host it somewhere else and then put it into your post as an inline image, that way it doesn't need to be approved and shows up immediately. It's easy, and there are several free image hosting sites.
To post an image inline just put the [IMG] tag around the URL of the image. For example {IMG}http://myimagehost.com/myimage.gif{/IMG}, replacing {} with []. The address must be a URL, not a local address on your hard drive. So you have to host the image somewhere online.
I like ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us/) because it's free and generates the vbb code so you can just cut-n-paste it right into your post. ImageShack also gives you more flexibility because it will also host tif,tiff, and swf files, plus it has a 1MB file size limit, which is 5 times the board attachment limit. And with inline images you can have as many images as you want in one post.
If you're posting anything else (zip, txt, vcf) just post it as an attachment and then PM me to let me know about it. You don't have to give me a link, or even tell me which thread it is, just let me know about it so I can go approve it.
In order to make this a bit more reliable here's some guidelines to follow:
If you're posting an image (jpg,jpeg,gif,bmp,png) I recommend you DON'T POST IT AS AN ATTACHMENT. Instead host it somewhere else and then put it into your post as an inline image, that way it doesn't need to be approved and shows up immediately. It's easy, and there are several free image hosting sites.
To post an image inline just put the [IMG] tag around the URL of the image. For example {IMG}http://myimagehost.com/myimage.gif{/IMG}, replacing {} with []. The address must be a URL, not a local address on your hard drive. So you have to host the image somewhere online.
I like ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us/) because it's free and generates the vbb code so you can just cut-n-paste it right into your post. ImageShack also gives you more flexibility because it will also host tif,tiff, and swf files, plus it has a 1MB file size limit, which is 5 times the board attachment limit. And with inline images you can have as many images as you want in one post.
If you're posting anything else (zip, txt, vcf) just post it as an attachment and then PM me to let me know about it. You don't have to give me a link, or even tell me which thread it is, just let me know about it so I can go approve it.