I am not quite sure how to post photos of my doggies, on the board or in my signature. Could someone help me out.

Hi Glenda,

Welcome to the forum. I just recently became a new member and had the learn how to post photos myself.

This is what I did:

I got a free account on Photbucket.com

I uploaded pictures from my computer. But I had to change the size of the upload options. I had to upload the picture for my signature as a thumbnail size because that one has to be small. I used the email size or the message board size for the other pictures

After that you should just be able to copy the IMG code or the URL and insert it in your signature or your message.

Good luck

Here is the link to my pics
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w260/patty2434tws/

Good explanation, Patty. Glenda, if you don't know how to use the image tags, check the board's FAQ. Basically you put before your image URL and after it (no spaces).

Speaking of signature images, Patty, perhaps you should consider further resizing your image or just compressing your signature image file (mine for example is compressed to about 17k). The board's FAQ states that signature images should not exceed 35k in size and yours is 84k!!!

This is a matter of basic internet and board etiquette so that people with slower connections aren't bogged down by overly large images. Furthermore, because your image is also large "visually" it also takes up a lot of space on the screen (regardless of connection speed) and causes quite a bit of extra scrolling for everyone who views the pages you post on.

Now if you were the only one doing this it wouldn't matter too much, but if 4, 5, 6 other people start doing this too it will start to make a difference in terms of scrolling and loading pages.

Please, I love seeing signature images but the last thing anyone wants is for Ed to scrap our signature image privileges just because people start going too wild

(Yes, I know you love your dogs and want to show them off - most of us do too here, lol. That's no reason to be posting large images of them and directing people to your image gallery in every post you make gorgeous dogs though!)

Thanks! It worked. Will have to get a photo of all three of them together. Thats quite a job.....lol.

This is my female Sheeba.

How's my signature pic now, Yuko? And yes, I love showing off my dogs. Don't we all. You have a nice dog too and I would mind looking at more pics.

Glenda, Sheeba is very cute. I have a 7 month old named Sheeba too! I'm still trying to get a pic of all 3 of mine together too.

Patty, I looked through your gallery - your dogs are beautiful!

Do you compete or do sports with them?

Better (for the sig pic) but it's still 53k. You don't have to resize the picture so much; it's just a matter of compressing the file.

Try opening your picture (even a larger one than what you have now) in some basic image-editing program (there's always something pre-installed with windows) and manually save it as a jpg file. Most image programs will automatically compress jpg files as much as possible.

Your current image is still at a higher resolution (good for image quality, but takes up more size).

PM me if you need any more help. I'd be happy to make the pics for you if you'd like - I have a good image editing software

(By the way, I'm not a moderator and don't really care if people post large images. I'm just worried that the mods will care and eventually get mad, hehe).

Glenda: good job figuring it out! That was quick, lol. Beautiful dog, she has such a fierce expression! Can't wait to see the rest of your pack.

Yes Yuko, I do Agilty with the 2 older ones. I have not competed with them yet. Toby is just about ready. I need to work on his focus better because he gets so distacted with other dogs around, especially new dogs.

I will PM you my signature pic later today so you can size it right for me. I'm not sure how to do it. I apperciate it very much. What size should it be when I send it to you?

I like that photobucket site, thanks for that tip!

Gonna show off my doggies here is a link. Will add more later and maybe a video, as soon as I go shoot one....lol.

http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t38/shep-gal-glenda/

Yuko, I saw in your profile you do web design, is it ok if I email you for some help in that area?

Thanks for posting the ?? and for the how to's. It was going to be my next question as well. This site is great and everyone here has been so helpfull! Thanks to all!

http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w45/MSCHOBOCHER/