Tutorial - How To Post Images & Avatars at Fireflyfans.net

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PENGUIN

Monday, July 2, 2007 11:29 PM (P)

Images

First of all, the image must be somewhere on the net. Many people use Photobucket ( http://photobucket.com/). The image must be in a format the site can read. I know that .png images will not work. If the image is in a .png format, you can use an image manipulation program (MS Paint, Photoshop, etc.) to change the image to a .gif or .jpg format.

Images can be taken from existing websites. You may need to save the image to your computer and upload it somewhere on the web because some webmasters don’t allow hotlinking (direct linking to images) or the website may be changed and your image may disappear.

Getting Images From The Web

Let’s post the picture of Joss from the FireFoxFans.net home page.

In Firefox, Right-click on the image, go to “Copy Image Location” and click. This puts the address of the image in your clipboard.

In Internet Explorer, right-click on the image and take your curser to “Properties” and left-click.

A “Properties” box will pop up.

With your curser, highlight the Address: (URL) and right-click (or right click on the address and go to Select All).

Take the curser to “Copy” and left-click.

This puts the address of the image in your clipboard.

Posting the Image

Now that you have the image address, go to the thread where you want to place the image. Right-click inside the “Your Response” box. A pop-up box will appear.

Take the curser down to “Paste,” left-click, and the image address should appear.

A note…this method only works at Fireflyfans.net. On most web sites, the use of “image tags” is required.

Posting an Image From Photobucket

Note...Photobucket has recently changed so all you need to do is left click the URL LINK you want and the link will be copied to your clipboard. Then follow the instructions in Posting the Image.

If you have a Photobucket account (or are “borrowing” an image), go to the image.

Left-click on the “Url” address to highlight…

Right-click to bring up the pop-up box and left-click on copy.

Then follow the instructions in Posting the Image.

Avatars

Recently a couple of our members discovered a way to allow us to have our own avatars!

Avatar images are different from other images you can post on FFF.net because they require the use of image tags. Image tags are characters around the image link that allow the image to be seen.

The image tags that are needed for avatars are before the image link (no spaces) and after the image link (again, no spaces).

Posting the Avatar

Go to “MY FIREFLY” and then to “EDIT PROFILE” under “MEMBER OPTIONS.” In the “Tag:” box, enter the image link with the image tag. You can also add text.

You also need to choose the “None” option under the “Avatar” section. The original avatar you chose may still show up until you clear your browser cache.

PENGUIN

Monday, July 2, 2007 11:31 PM (P)

Please use this thread for information only and test your avatar and images in one of the "test" threads. This makes it easier to fine and open the thread!

The well dressed one...

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, July 2, 2007 11:54 PM (P)

Thank you so much for the repost, Penguin!

I'm just going to put this up because a few people have been confused as to the difference between the URL and the HTML and why you need one for posting and the other for avatars. I don't know why it is, just how it is. The only place you need HTML is in you tagline, thus:

Here are some image test threads that I found tucked away in troll country:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=15&t=29288
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=15&t=21986
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=15&t=28661
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=15&t=26915

Everyone please use these or start one of your own so this wonderful tutorial doesn't get too weighed down!

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:47 PM (P)

Bump

SAVEWASH

Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:21 PM (P)

bump

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:35 AM (P)

Thank you oh great and mighty penguin, I offer a fish for thanks.

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RIVERFLAN

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:42 AM (P)

Thank you, Penguin!

You're so shiny!

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Bwaa!

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Friday, October 5, 2007 7:45 AM (P)

yay! Super xie xie, Penguin!

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FOLLOWMAL

Sunday, October 28, 2007 2:24 PM (P)

Once again bumping this mighty thread so that folks can use Penguin's fine illustrated tutorial to figure out how to do "stuffs" ( with a nod to Haken ) here. :-)

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Monday, November 26, 2007 4:49 AM (P)

Using this thread to test my new image. Testing, test.

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Monday, November 26, 2007 4:53 AM (P)

Test two. Hope this is right.

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STRANGEBIRD

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:34 AM (P)

Hey thanks this has helped me quite a bit.

Also bump....

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MIIKE

Monday, July 7, 2008 5:53 PM (P)

im just going out,i may be some time

MIIKE

Monday, July 7, 2008 5:58 PM (P)

im just going out,i may be some time

PHOENIXROSE

Friday, November 21, 2008 6:36 PM (P)

Bump

CELESTIA

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:55 PM (P)

Thanks for the info! It took some tries but I finally got it right. Yay!

P.S. I tried to use some of the links in the first post to test my new avatar, but those pages are no longer available.

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PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:12 AM (P)

Ah, yes, the links have slightly changed this year, I think the database was overhauled a little. Oddly enough, I've been fixing a few links I've posted today, and this just popped up for me to fix, too

Anyways, they should work better now. And there are many test threads floating about

CELESTIA

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:20 AM (P)

Hey, Hi PhoenixRose,

Now I just need to fix my siggy. I'll get there, I just need to get used to how things work here at Firefly.net.

“Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are." Joss Whedon

RIVERDANCER

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:06 AM (P)

I would muchly like a new and distinct avatar. I don't have this "photobucket" and it seems kind of silly to sign up for an account when all I want is one bitty picture. Any suggestions?

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:28 AM (P)

Hey, Dancer! I have some thoughts on the matter. Firstly, once you get a photobucket account, it's likely to spiral into several albums with hundreds of images in a matter of months.
...Although, that might just be me.
Anyway, since I do have several albums and one of those albums happens to be populated with Firefly avatars I've made in my tinkering, you're welcome to take a look:
http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/PhoenixRoseStar/Firefly/Avatars
/?start=all
If you see one you like, you can link it from there, I don't mind so long as I don't exceed bandwidth, which I've yet to do.

RIVERDANCER

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:38 AM (P)

You're such a dear! I saw one I wanted right away. Did it work? I got a white screen that said "Permission denied" when I tried to update my profile, and I still just see the old avatar, but when I go back to edit my profile again, sure enough the bullet point is on 'none' and the code is all in the tagline box. I will assume techno lag and hope for the best.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:23 PM (P)

Yeah, I've been getting the "Permission denied" screen, too, but it usually updates anyway. Right now I see two Rivers by your name, so at least part of it worked

RIVERDANCER

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:07 AM (P)

I still see two Rivers as well, no matter what I do to my avatar options. I've cleared my cache. Am I the only one who can still see it?

SAVEWASH

Thursday, July 2, 2009 6:25 PM (P)

I see two Rivers, if that helps.

(bump)

"We need to keep our heads so we can ... keep our heads."

RIVERDANCER

Friday, July 3, 2009 4:53 AM (P)

Gorramn, that original avatar seems locked in place! Oh well, at least I'm more unique, if not the way I intended.

ECGORDON

Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:32 AM (P)

Just bumping this up to the top for the benefit of all the newbies coming aboard lately.

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SERENITYRIDDLE

Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:05 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Just bumping this up to the top for the benefit of all the newbies coming aboard lately.

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RIVERDANCER

Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:37 AM (P)

Though my original standard avatar continues to fight me, I still think this thread is useful, and I felt like giving it a bump.

PENGUIN

Sunday, June 5, 2011 7:52 PM (P)

Test

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ECGORDON

Sunday, June 5, 2011 8:41 PM (P)

Yeah, the image is there, but my problem in the other thread was the url tag surrounding the image that links to my site.

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PENGUIN

Sunday, June 5, 2011 8:44 PM (P)

That doesn't work here. I'm not sure if Haken fixed that for 2.0 or not.

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

ECGORDON

Sunday, June 5, 2011 9:00 PM (P)

I am posting on 2.0, but everything is mirrored at the old site too.