Alright, here we go.
On the internet, you can use pretty much any picture you'd like to use unless a website either has it written into the page scripting that you can't right click on a picture to use it for something, OR it's on a flash website, and right clicking on a flash site won't get you many useful options anyhow. Now, I want you to keep in mind that I have to throw some extra junk in some of this to interrupt the scripting so you can see what I'm talking about, so where you see the asterisk inside the far outside brackets, those are there so you can see what I'm typing instead of how it should look once you put it in.
So let's say you would like to use a picture...I dunno, maybe like this one.
All you need to do in order to use this image yourself is to right click on the picture, and go to the very bottom of the list where it says "Properties." Once you've clicked on this, it will bring up another box, in which you will see several different things, but in the middle somewhere you should see where it says "Address" with a "(URL)" underneath or next to it. Next to that you should see what the addres for that picture is, and if you thriple-click the address, it should highlight the entire thing for you. The address for the picture above, for instance, is "http://www.truformonline.com/styles/buziness_board/imageset/logonew.gif". Once you've done your thriple-click, and the address has been highlighted, you can right click and go to "Copy", or simply hit "Ctrl+C", which will copy it as well. Once you get to where you want to copy the picture to, you can use the "Img" tab and put your copied text in between the [img]and[/img] by either right clicking and selecting "Paste" or you can hit "Ctrl+V", which will put your text wherever your blinking cursor is. This will make the picture appear in that area once you hit "Submit". You can use this to post smilies from other boards, post pics from a website where it might be hard to find that picture, etc.
There is so much more you can do, too. By adding a couple of other steps, you can use the picture as a link, for instance, or make a link with a certain wording, which I'll cover first. I do this a lot in my signatures and soforth. so here's how it works...
You can make a simple link by simply using the "URL" tab above your post text box next to the "Img" tab we talked about earlier, like so:
http://www.truformonline.com/index.php
As you can see, ^this^ link is highlighted and underlined, so you know that if you click on it, it's going to take you somewhere...in this case, straight back to the forum index page.
Now, here's where it starts to get tricky. In order to make this link say something different, you make your usual link, but in the "[URL]" box, you add your link, such as
[URL=http://www.truformonline.com/index.php]
Combine that with
"TruForm.[/URL]"
and it will look something like this
[*url=http://www.truformonline.com/index.php]TruForm.[/url] (<--see the asterisk I was talking about earlier?)
which people will see like this
TruForm. (<--I typed that without the asterisk)
Some forums are coded to work differently, so instead of typing
"[*url=http://www.truformonline.com/index.php]TruForm.[/url]" (<---Watch the asterisk again!)
you type
"[url="http://www.truformonline.com/index.php"]TruForm.[/url]" (<--See the quotations around the link?)
I hope you noticed the quotation marks around the address in the second one, because that's the only difference. SO, the SupraForms might use a different setup, and you just have to be ready for that and adapt accordingly. Ours does not, so don't worry about putting them in there.
On to making your picture into a link.
All the same steps apply to making your words into a link, only instead if inserting words into the area where you put what you want your link to say, you insert an image instead.
Like so...
[*url=http://www.truformonline.com/index.php][*img]http://www.truformonline.com/styles/buziness_board/imageset/logonew.gif[/img][/url]
Where it goes to and then what it should look like, just remove the asterisks I have in there, and you get this...
As you'll see, if you move your mouse over that it becomes a clickable link.
I hope this helps some of you guys and gals, as it was a pain in the ass to write.
Thanks for reading this guys, and if you have any questions, feel free to PM me, and I'll help you any way I can.
