New Feature: Pictures on Message Boards
Posted on Nov 2nd 2007 4:52PM by Joseph Manna
Filed under: Tutorials, New Features, Community Info
Adding pictures on message boards is here. We've rolled out a small test to a few message boards so we can observe the usage and the overall community benefits of allowing users to upload images in their messages. If things go well, we'll expand this to other areas.
Update 11/28: All AOL Message Boards have been enabled to support the hosting of uploaded/linked photos.
How To Add an Image on a Message Board
• This will work on an image-enabled message boards.
• All images must comply with AOL Terms of Service and Community Guidelines for the community that you're participating it.
• JPEG or GIF file formats work best. Other file types like TIF, PNG and BMP may not display correctly due to their proprietary formats.
• You don't need to use the HTML code provided by some image hosts. Only the URL to the image is required. If not sure about the format of your image, right click the image and click Properties, as that will show you the format and address.
• An up-to-date Web browser such as Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Firefox is recommended for the optimal experience. (AOL software uses the version of Internet Explorer included on your computer.)
~ Joseph
Update 11/28: All AOL Message Boards have been enabled to support the hosting of uploaded/linked photos.
How To Add an Image on a Message Board
- Access any of the boards listed above.
- Click Create New Thread:
- Type in the subject and add the text wish to add in the body of the message area.
- Click the picture icon on the toolbar of the editor:
- After you click the picture icon, a window will appear where you can enter in the location and other attributes of the image itself.
You can use images hosted anywhere, including those from AOL Pictures, AIM Photos, Flickr, among many others found on the Web. Once you upload your image to one of these sites, you can grab the image's URL usually from the space entitled "embed" or by right clicking the image and clicking Properties to get the address. - Once you have the URL, paste it into the URL field here, as I've done in the example shown below:
- Click OK, and your image should appear now in the editor. Click Post to submit your message to the board.
• This will work on an image-enabled message boards.
• All images must comply with AOL Terms of Service and Community Guidelines for the community that you're participating it.
• JPEG or GIF file formats work best. Other file types like TIF, PNG and BMP may not display correctly due to their proprietary formats.
• You don't need to use the HTML code provided by some image hosts. Only the URL to the image is required. If not sure about the format of your image, right click the image and click Properties, as that will show you the format and address.
• An up-to-date Web browser such as Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Firefox is recommended for the optimal experience. (AOL software uses the version of Internet Explorer included on your computer.)
~ Joseph
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Hello!
Does this work across all 9.0 versions and 9.1?
Thanks!
Posted at 10:26PM on Nov 2nd 2007 by Jing
2. Joe I never thought I would see the day, posting images on the boards. Glad I don't read and monitor boards any longer LOL. I love the idea.
Posted at 2:14PM on Nov 3rd 2007 by Betty
3. Thanks Joe!
I'd searched out one of those in pets but missed the rest. What in the world do you all have against photos of old cats and flowers? I'd be off topic sharing most of my stuff on the current line up of test boards. Looks like I could have some serious fun with images on boards once the sharing opportunities get a little more - average.
Good start!
Posted at 3:51PM on Nov 3rd 2007 by Steven
4. Please remove me from your ads. Thank you
Posted at 8:04PM on Nov 5th 2007 by JM Schowalter
5. Hi Joe,
For some reason I am unable to reply to any messages on the message boards. I keep getting the "Must add subject" error. I have unchecked the signature box. It still doesn't work. I completely removed my signature Ctrl A and delete. It still doesn't work. I sure would like to be able to post to the boards again one of these days. Any ideas?
Posted at 10:32PM on Nov 11th 2007 by Lisa
6. Lisa, if it wasn't the signature, "Please enter message text and subject" could have been due to Unicode characters, such as left and right quote marks, em dash and en dash, Copyright, etc. which are common on web pages. This problem was on a message board Nov 2, and I isolated it to special characters Nov 5. Joe posted on a message board that the fix was out Nov. 14.
Posted at 1:20AM on Nov 22nd 2007 by PGroot
7. Just when you think AOL can't possibly cook up anything poorer than what we have to already suffer with using, along comes the crew from AOL-AIM pages to prove us wrong once again!
Do you uncaring, incompetent idiots realize how much time and effort many of us have put into the creation of our AIM profile pages? Especially for those of us still on dial-up service? Fighting through modules that won't load or work, fighting through advanced edit functions that rarely work, and finally getting a profile page up and running (with no help at all from the AIM Pages team) that you're halfway proud to have others be able to look at? Then one day, you bring up your page only to find this new POS page format that wiped out all that hard work?
Do you have any clue how much that pisses me off?
You people spent more time yucking it up and making one excuse after the other on your Team Blog as to why you couldn't make AIM Pages Beta work for well over a year. This new profile page is the end result of that failure? At least you're keeping it in line with AOL tradition... every new release is worse than the previous version it's replacing.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a complete POS and I'll be deleting it. I'd rather be like all the other profileless tards lurking around on AOL than to have a profile page that looks as terrible and as featureless as this new one. You can take it and stick it where the sun doesn't shine!
Posted at 11:05AM on Dec 2nd 2007 by MDBones69
8. I need HELP!!! I think someone hacked into my aim profile and I can't get into it to change anything. I want to delete if I can or gain control again. HELP HELP HELP !!! I have called AOL they say there is nothing that they can do. I called AIM they said there is nothing that they can do either HELP!!!!
Posted at 4:50PM on Dec 3rd 2007 by ssonnyd
9. I see we have finally gotten the new AIM group pages up, now....how can we post pictures on the new group pages like we did on the old group pages??
Posted at 3:13PM on Dec 6th 2007 by David Garrison
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Posted at 3:30PM on Dec 16th 2007 by Mehmet Poyraz