Perfect Image Posting
Posted: 07 May 2018, 11:37
Posting images in forums has always been tricky business.
One solution many forums have chosen is to go through an image-hosting service like postimage.
It was a little wonky to use, but people got used to it and it worked really well, until postimage experienced some issues and left many forums littered with 100's of broken image links (in some cases 1000s) that were impossible to identify and were just too much trouble to go through and fix them all one by one. And they were not the only image-host this has happened with. And they won't be the last.
Plan B is to allow posting images as attachments which is pretty easy to do, just drag and drop them into the post. A drawback to that method is how the images look and position themselves in the post. The result is kind of disappointing.
To solve that I found a kind of "app" that works with this forum's software and allows the images to display quite nicely. Like this:
The images line up side-by-side and with no messy filenames. (from the Cult of Weimar Tarot)
A couple things to know:
1. When you use the "preview" option the pictures will be in a column, not side-by-side, however, when you click "submit, they will line up perfectly.
2. To look their best, resize images to have a minimum of 500 pixels width (height does not matter). Images larger than that will resize to 500px. Images smaller than 500 px across will look like this:
It's okay for 1 image, but you see the problem when you try to place more than 1 in a line. The filenames show and it gets messy. Just resize them to 500px and no problem.
All the images posted on this forum will be stored on the same server as the forum itself and not with a 3rd-party. Doing it this way we can maintain control of our work. I just hate the possibility of everyone's work being lost every time an image-host has an issue.
Posting pics this way is easier, safer and more reliable that using a 3rd party host. It also has the advantage that when a user clicks on one, they stay in the forum rather than click away to another website (like imgur or postimage etc)
Image posting is an extremely important part of a Tarot forum. We love the art and want to see it well displayed.
I created this video to show how images are posted here.
(Please also see the next post in this topic.)
More image posting tips
One solution many forums have chosen is to go through an image-hosting service like postimage.
It was a little wonky to use, but people got used to it and it worked really well, until postimage experienced some issues and left many forums littered with 100's of broken image links (in some cases 1000s) that were impossible to identify and were just too much trouble to go through and fix them all one by one. And they were not the only image-host this has happened with. And they won't be the last.
Plan B is to allow posting images as attachments which is pretty easy to do, just drag and drop them into the post. A drawback to that method is how the images look and position themselves in the post. The result is kind of disappointing.
To solve that I found a kind of "app" that works with this forum's software and allows the images to display quite nicely. Like this:
The images line up side-by-side and with no messy filenames. (from the Cult of Weimar Tarot)
A couple things to know:
1. When you use the "preview" option the pictures will be in a column, not side-by-side, however, when you click "submit, they will line up perfectly.
2. To look their best, resize images to have a minimum of 500 pixels width (height does not matter). Images larger than that will resize to 500px. Images smaller than 500 px across will look like this:
It's okay for 1 image, but you see the problem when you try to place more than 1 in a line. The filenames show and it gets messy. Just resize them to 500px and no problem.
All the images posted on this forum will be stored on the same server as the forum itself and not with a 3rd-party. Doing it this way we can maintain control of our work. I just hate the possibility of everyone's work being lost every time an image-host has an issue.
Posting pics this way is easier, safer and more reliable that using a 3rd party host. It also has the advantage that when a user clicks on one, they stay in the forum rather than click away to another website (like imgur or postimage etc)
Image posting is an extremely important part of a Tarot forum. We love the art and want to see it well displayed.
I created this video to show how images are posted here.
(Please also see the next post in this topic.)
More image posting tips