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TO POST PICTURES, AVATARS, AND SIGS:

You need an image hoster. The one most people use for forum posting is www.photobucket.com.

-Make an account there
-Upload pictures from your computer onto your account
-Below the picture it gives you 3 different codes, URL, TAG, and IMG. When posting on forums you want to use the IMG tag, so all you have to do is copy that code into your post

Posting Avatars

An avatar is the little picture below your name on the left hand side of your post. You can find any image you want for those, as long as you keep them at a decent size. Try typing in Harry Potter Avatars into Yahoo or something, Mugglenet.com has them too I believe.

To Put it in Your Profile:
-Click profile at the top of the forums
-Scroll down to Avatar Control Panel
-Copy the URL code from photobucket into the space provided

Posting Signatures

A signature is your own personal signature that goes below your post. People usually make these using Photoshop, but you may find some on the internet. Anything could be your signature. I myself can make sigs, so if you want one let me know.

Putting a Sig in your Profile:
-Click profile at the top of the forums
-Scroll down to signature
-Copy the IMG code from your photobucket into the space provided

Posting a Picture

If you would like to post a picture to your post and add it on the forums all you have to do is upload the image you want to post to photobucket, copy the IMG code and paste it in your post and it should show up.

Using the Tools in Posting

When posting you will see tools at the top of your post while your typing
B, i, u, Quote, Code, List, List=, Img, URL, Spoiler.

If you want to use these tools, all you have to do is select the text you want change and click that tool.

Example:

Harry Potter Rocks!....I want to make that bold so I would select the words "Harry Potter Rocks!" and click on the B tool. You will see little b's around it, and thats the code for the post.

Or if you want to put someones quote in a post, there is little button above each post, called quote. If you just click that it will take you to the place you make posts and it will already be there for you.

If you ever want to edit your post, there is also a button called edit above each of your posts, just click on that, and edit away.

Hope this helps anyone with questions! If you have trouble make a post or PM me.
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Posts: 253 · Posted: December 10, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject:

hi phoenix you made me a si....u can see it but its too small....how do i make it big liike yours?
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Report this post · Posted: July 13, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

What IMG??

Posts: 3137 · Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 3137

What do you what IMG? On here or your photobucket? You'll have to be a little more specific.
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Posts: 237 · Posted: July 24, 2007 7:42 am Post subject:

My Computer Keep Saying This Stinking Thing!

The avatar filetype must be .jpg, .gif or .png

I'm sick of it! I found a really great avatar, tried it, it didn't work. So I tried some others, and they keep coming up with that thing! I dunno why it's not working!

Posts: 3366 · Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 3366

Posts: 237 · Posted: July 24, 2007 9:35 am Post subject:

Ok, i figured out alot that you meant and stuff, but I went on photobucket and alot they had was jpg or whatever, but nothing was under or equal to 80x80. Thank you for explaining everything again before...I appreciate it.
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Posts: 257 · Joined: Jul 24, 2007 Location: USA Posts: 257

Perhaps this is an odd request, and please don't flame me for it, but can there be some restrictions as to the size of images used in sigs, some of them are huge and detract from the messages being posted. Maybe its just me, and if so, I'll be quiet.
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Posts: 44 · Joined: Aug 4, 2007 Posts: 44

i tried putting the IMG code in my sig. but it still wont show up..

Posts: 13521 · Posted: August 7, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject:

[img] [/img]

make shore it is just like that above^
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Posts: 44 · Joined: Aug 4, 2007 Posts: 44

well. i mean, i put in the photobucket img code. and all that. but it still didnt show up..
now what?

Posts: 3137 · Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 3137

If you give me the link to your image I can put in your sig for you Smile

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Posts: 44 · Joined: Aug 4, 2007 Posts: 44

thank you ^.^

Posts: 427 · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 427

I tried using an image for my avatar and I made a photobucket account and coppied the URL into the box and clicked submit but I keep getting this

Unable to upload file

DEBUG MODE

Line : 251
File : usercp_avatar.php

I went back to photobucket and tried the IMG and got this, The avatar filetype must be .jpg, .gif or .png then it said that again when I tried HTML

I went to properties and it said Type: JPEG Image

and I tried resizing it and the smallest it will go is 78 X 99
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Posts: 3137 · Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 3137

So the picture is a .jpeg or .php ?
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Posts: 427 · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 427

its Jpeg
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Posts: 3366 · Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 3366

For avatars, you do not need to upload it to the Photobucket account. Instead, choose the image from it's location on your computer by clicking on the Browse button. The image will then be sent to our website so it can be displayed. If you still have problems, please let us know.
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Posts: 427 · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 427

thats what I tried first and it didnt work
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~*Mags*~

Posts: 3366 · Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 3366

Right now, you have an avatar. Were you able to get it to work for the image you wanted?
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Posts: 427 · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 427

yup, I got it thanks Smile

I changed the file type and made the pic reeeeally small, it took about an hour to get it, but it worked! Smile

its too bad yuo cant read the words in it
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Posts: 5296 · Posted: November 14, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:

Posts: 3366 · Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 3366

Here is my reply to the post you quoted. If this doesn't help, please post the file type, the file size (KB), and image dimensions.

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