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Originally Posted by missbelle
George I am pretty computer savy but you confused me...I just go to a site and copy a pic and paste it in the visitors box..Some sites won't let you copy so its a little trial and error.....cheezeburger.com and ubercomments always let you copy a pic. Senor gifs is also a great site I use very often for the animated pics.
Whimsey girl do you understand copy and paste and which side of your mouse to use?
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Yes missbelle, pretty much. Using a mouse you can right click and choose copy image location or you can click "view image" which takes you directly to the image URL and then copy the url from the address bar. Then you paste into the text box here as you normally do or do it manually. That's called
hotlinking. You're posting a pic that belongs to someone else and also using their bandwidth... a tiny bit of it but some folks are touchy about it. A lot of sites don't like it and some will replace the pic you used with a really unpleasant one. And some sites use some sort of js function to protect images from being posted from their site.
On that subject that link above is a hyperlink with anchor text.
Here's the way I do it tho there are other ways:
[URL=http://diy.despair.com/]write anything you want here[/URL]
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BTW that's a pretty cool site for making motivational poster images
BTW I enjoy the pics you post on my page
