OUTDATED: Embed media items in your posts

[troy]

Last night, I added a couple new "BBCodes" to the forum to support embedding media in your posts.

YouTube
You can use the 'YouTube' button when posting to create the tags, then paste the YouTube video URL inside the tags.

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[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdUVFT4srZg[/YouTube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdUVFT4srZg[/youtube]


I can and will add more custom BBCodes. A Google Map one would be nice. What online photo albums do you use? Perhaps I can create a simple way to embed your albums here in the forum?

[troy]

Photobucket album embedding currently broken. Sorry!

I just added a photobucket BBCode to easily embed albums.

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Album URL:
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a232/katbeanz/westfest%20montana%20idaho/

Take just the part after photobucket.com and insert in the tags:
[photobucket]/albums/a232/katbeanz/westfest%20montana%20idaho[/photobucket]

Result:

[katbeanz]

Very cool Troy! BTW, one of the ADV rockies inmates is getting ready to go to a shane watts school. I told her you might not mind answering a couple questions and posted a link to your watts thread.
I know on ADV to embed a youtube link I copy and paste the embed code into wordpad, then add what I guess are html tags on both ends. I viewed the source code from a post that had an embedded vid, then monkey see, monkey do.
I don't know how much rideforum resources embedding vids uses, much more than just posting the link?

AnnieGS posted a link to irfanview, a free picture editor that resizes pics in a snap. What's the best way to insert text into photos?

[Hayden]

Troy. Could you throw this in the Anouncments at the top so it doesnt get lost?

Hayden

[troy]

Very cool Troy!

Thanks!

BTW, one of the ADV rockies inmates is getting ready to go to a shane watts school. I told her you might not mind answering a couple questions and posted a link to your watts thread.

I'm actually wearing my "I survived DirtWise with Shane Watts" T-shirt right now. No problem--yeah she can contact me.

I don't know how much rideforum resources embedding vids uses, much more than just posting the link?

That's the beauty of the embed--it does not use any of my server's resources! So I'd much rather folks embed or link to photos and videos than upload them directly to RideForum.NET. In most cases, it's more convenient for you anyway since you've already uploaded them somewhere like YouTube, Picasa, SmugMug, etc.

AnnieGS posted a link to irfanview, a free picture editor that resizes pics in a snap. What's the best way to insert text into photos?

ifranview is a popular product. I use PhotoResizer
http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize
It works in a unique way--you name the program the size of pic you want. You just put the program on your desktop, then if you want 400px wide images, for example, you just name the program PhotoResize400.exe. Then when you drag & drop photos onto it, it automatically creates a new image from the existing image of the correct size. You can drag entire folders onto it, and it creates new images for all in the folder. Slick.

As for the best way to insert text into a photo...I don't have any slick tools for that. I use a full-fledged graphic art program like Macromedia's Fireworks (Like Photoshop but much less powerful--optimized for creating images for the web.) There are definitely easier to use and low cost solutions out there, I'm just not familiar with them.

[troy]

Troy. Could you throw this in the Anouncments at the top so it doesnt get lost?

I made it a "sticky" for now.

[troy]

PICASA album embedding currently broken. Sorry!

Picasa Album Slideshow
This one is a bit tricker to use, but easy enough. Again, use the 'picasa' button in the posting editor. Then you must paste something between the tags. What you paste part of the Picasa album RSS link. When on your album page in Picasa Web, you'll see a link for "RSS". Right click this, and copy the link. Then paste the link between the 'picasa' tags, but delete everything from the question mark on.

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This RSS link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/wolf.troy/albumid/5501000677046925521?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US

Becomes:
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/wolf.troy/albumid/5501000677046925521

The BBCode would look like:
[picasa]http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/wolf.troy/albumid/5501000677046925521[/picasa]

Result: