Originally Posted by Nancy Laird

What you need to do is to load the pictures directly from your own computer to the site, rather than link to Photobucket or another off-site location. (If that location ever goes down or goes away, your pictures also go away, but if they are loaded here, they will always stay in the post).

Go to "Manage Attachments", browse your computer for the picture you want to upload, upload the picture.

Then come back into the composing screen, click on the paperclip icon at the top, and insert the picture(s). You'll get a line that reads ATTACH]962[/ATTACH with brackets at the ends. Then you can type before the picture,

beside the picture,

or below the picture to put in your description.

There is a tutorial available for posting pictures on any forum that uses vBulletin (as this one does) here: http://workingwoods.com/workingwoods...20on%20SMC.htm

This was written by a former member of Sawmill Creek, then changed for the Family Woodworking family, but the basics work here too.

As I said earlier, if you are trying to post pictures from an off-site storage, you usually have to click on a URL to get to them, and the pictures will disappear if and when that site goes down or if you decide to remove the pictures from Photobucket. Using this method, the pictures will ALWAYS be here (but they do use bandwidth).

Also, remember that you can always preview your post and see how it looks and reads before you click the "submit reply" button.

(By the way, I didn't make that particular pen in the picture above. I received it in a pen swap on another site.)

Nancy

Originally Posted by TexasTimbers

That is an outstanding tutorial for sure. It made me sign in to see the pictures. I had a PM from Decemeber of last year!