Images or pictures in posts

[RichardWorthington]

Hi

In my post http://www.monachos.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5014

I tried to show an image of an icon of Christ; I uploaded it as an attachment. It appears small, and you then click on it to show it larger. However, I noticed that when I was logged out that no picture showed, and clicking the link did not show the picture.

Is there a way of showing an image which is an attachment normally, without any resizing, and which is viewable by everyone, including those not logged in?

If not, then I am thinking of uploading some images to a new album and inserting the img codes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Richard

[Michael Stickles]

Richard,

As far as I know, images uploaded are thumbnailed for members and are not visible to guests. Presumably this is to limit bandwidth usage.

Images which are "uploaded" by URL, however, are shown full-sized and are visible to guests (they wouldn't count against Monachos' bandwidth limits). Several of the full-sized images I've seen here are hosted on Flickr or Imageshack (that's an observation, not a "plug"; I don't know anything about them except that they host images). If you have free web space through your internet provider, that might be a good place to put images.

In Christ,
Mike

[RichardWorthington]

Many thanks, I'll bear this in mind.

Richard

[M.C. Steenberg]

Dear Richard and Mike, and others,

Just to clarify what Mike wrote above: images that are uploaded as attachments to posts are shown in thumbnail form at the bottom of the post. When clicked on, they are show full-size in a layover box (which I think looks quite lovely).

Such thumbnails and clickable-images are only available to logged-in members. This is a standard feature on large forums, since otherwise every search engine's 'spider' (automated programmes that 'crawl' websites many times each day to survey content for search engine results) would download every image every time, leading to massive bandwidth usage.

INXC, Dcn Matthew