HOW TO's - Customizing your post

Showing images in post

Adding an image to a post

phpBB BBCode incorporates a tag for including images in your posts. In this site, there are two options (buttons) to add images to your post. The first option allows you to upload an image from your computer. The image will be hosted by www.servimg.com. Be sure to copy (ctrl+c) the url after the file has been uploaded. Images can be hosted by other free online image hosting sites. The only important part is the location/URL of the image. The other option is to be able to paste the URL in the box and it will be pasted on your post with the corresponding tags.
To display an image you must surround the URL pointing to the image with tags

Code:

[img][/img]

For example:

Code:

[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]

As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a

Code:

[url][/url]

tag if you wish, e.g.

Code:

[url=http://www.google.com/][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img][/url]

would generate:

Copy and paste the URL in the Insert a video button from the options while posting. For example, a video from youtube will have the tags

Code:

[flash(425,350)]http://www.youtube.com/v/8J1CWhrsq3s[/flash]

and will display