Monty by Jim Meddick for June 22, 2013

Tsk, kids today. They have no idea about sustainable hooliganism

Suzanne….and whoever else wants to know…

It would take way too much space to go into great detail about this on this forum, and I’m also very tired.

So for now…

The formula for posting pictures from the web is <img src='URL' width='300'>

Be sure spacing, or lack of it, and quote marks are as shown.

‘URL’ is, of course, the URL of the picture.Before you copy and paste it, you have to right click and select “view image” (in Firefox) or whatever puts it on its own page in your browser.

‘300’ represents the width you want the picture to display, in pixels.

As a rough guide, 50 is the size of our avatars, 360 is as wide as the comment box. If you find a picture that’s already of a suitable width, you can just use <img src='URL' >

For anything bigger you need to specify the width, please!

Giant pictures really annoy people, especially if they have slow internet or computers.

If you’re talking about a picture already on your computer, you first have to find a place to host it on the web.There are many free image hosting sites…and most give you the code for posting.

don’t ask, don’t tell …Whew!

When that stalled junior Mercedes is found by the polo groundskeeper in the morning, Sedgy’s life of crime will be exposed and his rehabilitation can begin….

Jim, I think it’s time to spin Sedgwick off into his own strip so that those of us who prefer Monty can continue to enjoy this strip.

Thanks, Susan. For one so tired, you did a great job.lisapaloma, I don’t thing Sedgwick has enough to sustain a whole strip to himself.

dzsquared, Robotman is copyrighted and Meddick cannot do any more of them.

I believe Neiman-Marcus Catalog used to sell those(and Mercedes 450SL)

I’ve tried with the picture and have failed.

Suzanne….

If you can possibly post here exactly what you tried, but with a @ touching each end so that I can see the code, I can try to troubleshoot it.

You may have an errant space, or your URL might not be complete, etc….easier for another set of eyes to see.

The way I learned was by Googling “HTML for posting images” a few years ago. Maybe by now somebody explains it better…. though I usually can simplify pretty well.

There’s also lots more about formatting and about posting pictures and links HERE on x_Tech’s formatting page on an old Citizen Dog forum… but it gets quite complicated….and some of it has changed by the end of the discussion, due to changes at GoComics…. so you have to check the last part.

And Lisapaloma… you’re welcome.

450SL? They haven’t made those in over 30 years. I had a ’88 560SL which I got rid of 2 yrs ago. Way over rated for what it cost new though I bought mine when it was 10 yrs old and had 25,000 miles on it and paid about a third of what it cost new.

Suzanne….

Your code is correct, as it’s exactly what I posted… I was already confident that it would be.

But failure to post is usually a problem with the URL part….might link to a whole page instead of just an image, or might have broken if it pasted as two lines…..might somehow be a double quote at one end and a single at the other (a pair of either works) in fact it took me forever the other night, when an image just wouldn’t post, to realise that I’d failed to grab the h of http when I copied the URL.As I said, it’s easier for another pair of eyes to see something like that….and I also know how to fix some problems.

You can always keep experimenting, look for those defects, try another picture, etc….but I’d be happy to take a look…..problem is, I can’t test or fix it unless you give me the whole “string,” which includes the URL of the actual picture.

Suzanne —Just as an experiment….try copying and pasting this

<image src="http://gamasutra.com/db_area/images/blog/190172/computerCat.jpg" width="350">

And check the URL you’re using to make sure it’s in that form….a picture all alone on a page.

I DON’T mean to imply you’re making a mistake…

I can tell by your self-discovery of various formatting that you’re quite competent…. But it’s hard to be absolutely clear in written instructions, so I want to make sure I’ve conveyed everything I meant to.

Sheesh…. I made a mistake myself the first time I posted that for you.

Had you seen it ten minutes ago, the code wouldn’t have worked!LOL

Suzanne… if you get back here…. that’s fine.

Meanwhile… copying an pasting a URL is the ONLY way to post an image.

I’m not quite understanding…. but if you mean you’re trying to post a Monty comic as your image…

Just be aware… as you probably are….that the URL for a comic , with the background from GoComics and all, is NOT a URL for a single image.

The image URLs for comics look like something like

“http://assets.amuniversal.com/d2f5d4a0b5ba0130e052001dd8b71c47”

NOT like “http://www.gocomics.com/monty/2013/06/21”

Hmm, perhaps if Sedge had a hybrid peddle version he would be a bit more trim.