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I have moved the page that the link above points to so this is then new correct link http://downeasteryachts.com/fo.....cie-emmett

I will edit the above post and remove the link there.

scott

Would like to post pics of what we did ( including going back to tiller steering so we could have a sensible dodger and bimini, cockpit coamings etc etc and a major re-build of the interior). Unfortunately I haven't been able to work out how to upload pics. Tried quite a while ago and got discouraged so haven't been on the site since then – sorry Carl – but I still don't find the site very easy to use (I'm not very computer savvy!). We previously had a Peterson 44 whose site was a doddle.

I'm inspired to try again – New Years resolution?

Tim,

Sorry it has been hard for you to upload pictures… the above link should take you to step by step directions. If you still need help after reading that, just give me a holler at 843-491-4830 when your sitting at your computer and I will walk you through it. We are so deep into this version of a forum that it would be really hard to go to something else at this point. I would hate to lose all the stuff people have already put up. I didn't realize at the time that the photo part of it was quite as non intuitive as it seems to be when I chose it.

Scott

Tim,

once you have uploaded the images you simply click on the image you want to insert in the browse window and that will select that image and take you back to the first window that has an insert in the lower left hand corner of the window.. You should now see a url in the Image URL line of the box. If you hit insert it will insert that into the post and show the image. Either something is not working right for you beacuase of the version of browser your using our there is some simple little but maybe unobvious thing that is keeping you from seeing it.  I am using firefox and it is working fine for me. I just tested it on the image below. I don't have a windows system running at the second to test IE and see if there is something weird with IE acting up again. I used both Firefox and Google Chrome to insert the two below images. I am sitting at the computer this afternoon for the next couple hours if you want to give me a call. I'm not sure what else to suggest.

scott

Sorry Tim,

I understand what is happening now...

Yes you are correct in that once you upload the images you have to go back to browse and pick them  to insert into the post, and yes you can only insert one image at a time into the post even though you can upload a bunch of them at once into the image upload utility.  It is time consuming and also quirky sometimes as to the alignment of images in the posts.. etc.. I have found it is good to create folders in the upload utility for each different post or boat topic I am talking about and to put the uploaded images into them. It keeps it easier to browse to them once you have a large number if images uploaded. I think you need to have the images in the folder before you insert them into the forum post as if you re-arrange them after the post is done it will break the link to them and will no longer display in the forum post.

I wish we had the same image uploading controls in the forum as I do in the main website posts and pages. There I can upload as many pictures as I want and include them in a gallery view in about two steps. The forum is a third party plugin to the website software and I have found it inconsistent in features sometimes. Over all I do like it and each time the developers upgrade it, it gets a little better here and there. Hopefully the image upload feature will get a bit better sometime soon 🙂 I wish I was a programer and could change that feature myself but we are at the mercy of the developers. If anyone wants to raise a few thousand dollars to pay them I'm sure we would get to the head of the line in consideration for new or reviesed features.. 🙂

when we were having issues with IE displaying the site correctly a few months ago that is what I did to expidited getting that bug fixed... I paid one of the developers to take a look at it and figure out what was wrong. 🙂 I didn't pay thousands though.

I'm sorry it's so hard for you to use.. The system, when you upload an image, creates a thumbnail. So between the original and the thumbnail it will count each image twice in the little image manager/uploader utility. Not sure about the fraction of an image. 

Scott