Step 1: Hosting your pictures
First you need to host pics, or have them online already. Hosting your own pics can be done at a number of sites. The following is a list compiled by our friends at VWVortex, and can be quite useful:
http://www.imagestation.com
Free to use, has 3mb per picture and 40mb per movie limit. This will only work if you take the .orig.jpg off the end of the picture url. Unfortunately it will also only put up a 450x300 image maximum. There are several upload options, browse, explore, drag and drop. As a side note, Imagestation has been acting pretty funky as of late, so you may want to consider a different option.
http://www.mydubmedia.com
This is a free host for pictures of Volkswagen and Audi's. The guy running it is a fellow Vortex member.
http://www.hostdub.com
This is a paid host for pictures and video starting at $5.00 a year. There are 3 different packges available and the guy running it is a fellow Vortex member.
http://www.fototime.com
Free 30 day trial, but after there is a yearly fee depending on how much space you want.
$23.95 - 250.00 MB
$47.90 - 500.00 MB
$71.85 - 750.00 MB
$95.80 - 1000.00 MB
http://www.geocities.com
To make it work from geocities you need to rename your .jpg or .gif files to .txt then uploand and link to them just like it was an image. There is still one other problem with using geocities as your host. They have a limit on bandwidth per file and once you exceed that in one day they will stop hosting the picture till the next day.
If you have payed the $5.00 a month for webspace you do not need to use the .txt trick and you will not have to worry about the bandwidth limit every day.
http://www.tripod.com
To make it work from Tripod you need to rename your .jpg or .gif files to .txt then link to them just like it was an image.
Step 2: Inserting pics into your post
http://www.angelfire.com
To make it work from angelfire.com you need to rename your .jpg or .gif files to .txt then upload and link to them just like it was an image. There is still one other problem with using angelfire.com as your host. They have a limit on bandwidth per file and once you exceed that in one day they will stop hosting the picture till the next day.
To do this, have the pics online (see step one). Then, go to the pic you want to post. Right-click on the pic, and select 'Properties'.
After clicking on 'Properties', a new window will appear. The window will show the URL address of the pic, and that's what you need. Select the address, and Copy; either using CTRL + C or right-click, copy.
Finally, go back to the forum. Use the ''IMG" tags to post pics. Paste the URL of the pic in between the "IMG" tags, either by using CTRL + V or right-click, paste. Don't forget to use the forward slash on the closing tag, or use the automated 'IMG' button on the top of the 'post a reply' screen.
It should look like this:
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[img]http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif[/img]