To display your images in our forum your image needs to be published to a Web server on the Internet. Luckily as a registered user (you are registered right?) you have up to 3 megabytes of space here on Armorama to host your images. Below your posts there is a "My Gallery" button. Click this button and you will be taken to your default gallery. From there you can do several things:

These are just a few of the more popular providers. Many more are out there.

There are several ways to add images to the forums. All of them require the image to be "hosted" somewhere on the Internet. See the previous question for more about this. For those who have images hosted and would like to display them, here are the options:

1.) BBCODE - This is the simplest way to show images in the forum. You can use the buttons provided to insert the tags for your image into your post. Clicking on the IMG button you will see this:

[img]http://put.url.here/image.file[/img]

Now all you need do is insert your image location where the text says "put.url.here/image.file". So as an example if you have images on your space at AOL then it would read:

[img]http://members.aol.com/your_screen_name/image_name.file[/img]

Note that ".file" will be one of the typical image file extensions for most browsers. That being .gif, .jpg, .bmp, .png, etc.

Some of the disadvantages of BBCODE are that you cannot control the size of the image. For that we would use HTML.

2.) HTML/IMAGE - For HTML image calls you must be a little more careful in typing out the full HTML code. For the above example it would look something like this:

<img src="http://members.aol.com/your_screen_name/image_name.file">

If you want to control the width of the image (so it doesn't spill off the screen you can add this:

<img src="http://members.aol.com/your_screen_name/image_name.file" width="600">

3.) HTML/LINK - For those who may want to conserve on the bandwidth of their site by not displaying the image, but rather just showing a link to the image, here is the HTML code for that:

<a href="http://members.aol.com/your_screen_name/image_name.file" target="_blank">

Note we have added a function (target=) to open a new window so the user will still remain on Armorama. Useful if you want to get feedback later and not get the user lost.

We had mistakenly been setting some categories as public upload galleries and this was corrected recently. The net effect is that yes, there are fewer locations you can put your personal images. But the benefit is that your list of categories is not several hundred long either. We are still interested in hosting quality images in the "categorized" galleries, we just ask that you submit these photos using the Support Center (http://support.armorama.com).

When you are on the full-size photo page, click the EDIT PHOTO link. At the bottom of the next page you will see a checkbox to DELETE. Check and hit submit.

The default setting is to sort images by title. So provided you name the images in some way that is alphabetical, then they wil display in the order you would prefer. For example 1:, 2:, 3:, etc.

You can create albums by clicking on the "Album Admin" link in the gallery (upper left). Once you create an album you can edit your existing pictures and change the image location to the album in question. Please keep in mind that ALL of your images show up in your root gallery no matter WHERE they are additionally displayed in the gallery itself.

This can happen for several reasons; The HTML or BB code used in the post is not correct to display the image. The image is no longer hosted where the user originally had referenced it. The image is hosted in a member-only area like Yahoo so that some people who are logged in with a Yahoo cookie can see the image and others would not. The image is visable to the user who posted it but not to others (for similar reasons to the last scenario). The user has exceeded his bandwidth were the image is hosted. There are many more explanations but generally it is safe to recommend that you host images in a location that all users can access. Our own gallery is good for this.