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For some reason I cannot get inline images to display.
Now , it could be something to do with where i host them , but I'll check that soon ,

In the meantime are there any other stupid mistakes I could be making ? If I use the img tag , it appears in the post . if I use no tags it just provides a link to the image location.

Yes, it's to do with your host, or at least the default URL format you are copying from that host. If the URL doesn't end in something like JPGor another normal, supported image extension, the BB code doesn't seem to interpret it as an image when wrapped in the img tag.

You've been using URLs like
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="gallery.me.com/seanwallace/100013/230920...g?ver=12537431520001">gallery.me.com/seanwallace/10001 ... 7431520001

If you wrap that in the IMG tag it just won't work.

If you remove the ?ver=blahblahblah at the end, you should be able to do this:

[img:3168pcuu]http://gallery.me.com/seanwallace/100013/23092009%28005%29/web.jpg[/img:3168pcuu]

[b:3168pcuu]However, note that that is a pretty big image, and is not friendly to low-bandwidth or mobile users (like me <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->). [/b:3168pcuu]

I like to use photobucket and use the thumbnail URL to show the image in a post, and then wrap that in a URL tag to allow users to click on it and see a larger (non thumbnail) image. A bit like this (check the properties the image and compare to the Image URL, there's a "th_" at the beginning of the image name to indicate thumbnail):

[img:3168pcuu]http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr156/barrymasterson/th_PumpkinAle-TheIngredients2.jpg[/img:3168pcuu][/url:3168pcuu]

Nice one

I shall amend my ways and attempt to learn the secrets of the thumbnail !!


Thanks !!

No worries. I don't know galleryme.com, but if you see a thumbnail view, try right-clicking on it and click properties, then copy the URL of the image. Paste that into your browser address box just to see if it can be used on its own, and if so, use that in the BBCode IMG tag. Then wrap the IMG tag in a URL tag with the normal URL (ending in .jpg) and you're good to go. They may offer the ability to copy-paste differnt URLs for different views of an image too.

Sounds complex, but it's easy after the first few dozen times <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->