Adding a Background or a Picture

[Mathman]

Adding a Background or Picture to a Cache page Since the weather was so nice today, I decided to place a cache. 😈 OK OK my question is this… How do I add a background or a picture to the cache page that shows up automatically on the cache page? I will either use a clipart file or picture from my memory disk. Thanks for any help that anybody can offer.

Mathman

[cheezehead]

When you go to the “Report/edit cache page” you will see a line that says”Background Image URL”. There is where you post the link to where your picture is stored . I use Photobucket for an example. It’s pretty user friendly, at least for me, but there are others out there too.

[Mathman]

@cheezehead wrote:

There is where you post the link to where your picture is stored . I use Photobucket for an example.

If my picture is stored on my computer such as “My pictures” do I link it there? or do I need to have it linked from a web page? Thanks.

[czernicachers]

@Mathman wrote:

@cheezehead wrote:

There is where you post the link to where your picture is stored . I use Photobucket for an example.

If my picture is stored on my computer such as “My pictures” do I link it there? or do I need to have it linked from a web page? Thanks.

You will not be able to link it on your computer, you will need to put the picture on a picture site. Flickr is a great one. You can load a tool to load pictures from your computer to flickr by right clicking on it. If you need help let me know.

[Mathman]

Do I need to create an account to use Flickr? As an aside…. would it possible for Geocaching.com to provide access to pictures if the server was big enough? Thanks for your input.

[LightningBugs Mum]

You can upload the picture directly to your cache’s gallery, then link to it from there.

Directions for anyone unfamiliar with that:

1. Click on “Upload Images” in the navigation box, then follow the directions to get it into the gallery.

2. Once it is there, click on the thumbnail to go to the picture’s web page. Copy the URL.

3. Click on “Edit Listing” in the navigation box. For backgrounds, paste the URL into the background image box. For a picture, paste the URL into the long description box (using html image code). Don’t forget to click the “The descriptions below are in HTML” box. Then complete the editing process at the bottom of the page.

I use Photobucket for pictures I want to use in forums, but I like to keep the cache pictures with the cache page.

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