Hi AllRight here are the instructions. Pretty easy really.
A tad time consuming but once you get used of the process it is pretty quick.
I use photobucket.com to upload to. Its free. Do a google to find download site. Also download Infanview so you can resize your pics. As to bigga pics will take up to much bandwidth on the forum.
Heres how I do it. Open Infanview and choose the pic you intend to upload to photobucket from my documents (the folder you have it in.) Open the pic, then go to Image (on the top) scroll down to "resize/resample. click. You will then see the options. Choose 640 x 480 or 800 x 600. Click and the pic is resized. Then go to file (On top) scroll down to Save as, click, then before saving to wherever you want, look at JPEG option window on top right corner, slide ruler to 50 and then click save.
Open photobucket and using browse locate your resized pic. Then upload it.
To put on forum open Tackle Tactics Forum type your message. Wherever you want to put the photo do the Control v and the link to photobucket is inserted. Easy peassy. Sounds bloody complicated but actually it isnt.
To display a photo, you will need to have the image hosted on some server on the web. This can be either your own website or any of a number of free photo hosting websites. Here are three:
http://www.boomspeed.com (Follow their directions for posting the photo)
http://www.photobucket.com (See Photobucket photo posting instruction below.)
To upload a photo or file on the forum, in the "post message" or "reply" window click on the "Browse" button at the bottom, and select a file from your hard drive, then click "Upload". This will host your photo on the server where someone can click on it and download the photo. It will not display on the forum, there will only be a link to it.
If you would like to see a user tutorial on how to use your board settings, you can find it here: http://bb.bbboy.net/man/user.html
Photobucket Picture Posting Directions:
Pictures have to be saved on a different server than the gold forum.
One place to use is http://www.photobucket.com
It's easy to use and is free. You will have to open an account.
Once you have your account set up you can create separate albums for different subjects. But I have found it is a lot easier and faster to just use the "upload" feature without creating albums and it puts all your photos in the same general album. They will display at the bottom of the page
Use the "browse" feature located in the large box to find the picture on your computer that you want to upload. Now click "Upload". Pretty simple.
Now that you have the picture uploaded to Photobucket you can scroll down and see it.
Notice that there are three choices you can make, which are located just below the picture.
It will look like this:
Url
Tag
Img
If you are already used to posting pictures on the forum you can use the "URL" tag in the same way as before. For ease and speed I would suggest just using the "IMG" tag. You can highlight the css code with your mouse and do a "control-c" on your computer keyboard. This copies the code.
Now go to the forum. With your message _, click anywhere you want the image to appear and do a "control-v" on your keyboard to paste in the selected code.
This will cause the picture to be displayed without the trouble of using the BbCode on the board.
You can preview the message if you click the "preview box" on the right of the function buttons. Post the message. If you have clicked "preview" and the post is acceptable, you will now have to actually post it. Click "Send".
That's all there is to it. Photobucket is an easy place to use and is free.
Please try to size your photos to a reasonable size before posting them on the forum. It really takes up a lot of bandwidth and slows down the forums if the pictures are too large.
So lets see who masters it first. Any probs just ask. Now we can see the catches/gear/possies
in real time.
Just hope Admin aka Tackle Tactics go along with it.
Cheers Trev