PICTURES IN NEW CACHE LISTING

[+bobkeenan]

I am opening up a new cache. I have done several before. But I have never created a cache description with a photo included. I have posted pictures with a "found" but never on one of my caches. How do I do that?

[+Miragee]

First you have to upload the picture to a hosting site on the web, or you could use this page.

 

Then, you have to use HTML to write up the cache page. You have to check the box on the page saying you are using HTML and have to define each paragraph by using <p> before each paragraph and </p> after each one.

 

The code for the image will be:

 

<p align=center><img src="URL of the image"></p>

 

Here is a helpful page for writing the code.

[+bobkeenan]

First you have to upload the picture to a hosting site on the web, or you could use this page.

 

Then, you have to use HTML to write up the cache page. You have to check the box on the page saying you are using HTML and have to define each paragraph by using <p> before each paragraph and </p> after each one.

 

The code for the image will be:

 

<p align=center><img src="URL of the image"></p>

 

Here is a helpful page for writing the code.

 

THAT WORKED GREAT... THANKS

[+MM32]

First you have to upload the picture to a hosting site on the web, or you could use this page.

 

Then, you have to use HTML to write up the cache page. You have to check the box on the page saying you are using HTML and have to define each paragraph by using <p> before each paragraph and </p> after each one.

 

The code for the image will be:

 

<p align=center><img src="URL of the image"></p>

 

Here is a helpful page for writing the code.

I'm trying to upload an image to a new cache page. I loaded it at the geocaching.com/my/upload.aspx. Question is, how do you get it from there to the cache page. It doesn't seem to transfer.

[+PeterNoG]

When you start a new cache listing, make sure that the "Yes, this cache is currently active" checkbox is unchecked and then save the cache listing.

From the new cache page, you can upload images.

After you can go back to editing the cache page. Once you are satisfied with the cache listing, then you can check the checkbox and the reviewer will then see your listing.

[+Team Caracache]

I have been trying to put up html cache description pages with moderate success, without even knowing how to write html code, by writing it in Open Office Writer (or I suppose MS Word), and then saving as an html file, viewing and copying the page source, and pasting in the box provided on the cache form.

However I have always had to use the codes mentioned above, modified, to insert pictures and links, and have no idea how to position things exactly where I want them on the page, eg if I want two photos side by side, or surrounded by text.

I have heard that some people use MS Front Page or similar to do the layout, and then load it directly, but I am not sure how that works, and Front Page is too expensive for this occasional use. Does anyone know how to do an html cache description layout and upload it, or of any free programs which can be used?

I write blogs and the blogspot.com and vox.com make it very easy to upload exactly what you want including pix and links, and is it asking too much for geocaching.com to provide a wysiwyg editor, or are our cache setters (except me!) too computer literate and skilled in html to need it?

[+Miragee]

To get images to appear side by side, you need to create a simple "Table."

 

One easy way to get the codes for what you want is to "borrow" it from a page you see. Look at the Source Code from your browser and scroll down to the code you want. Copy and Paste that section, then tweak it for your purposes.

 

Here is a Table from one of my cache pages that I tweaked for two images:

 

<table align=center border="0" width="75%">
<tr>
<td><img src="URL of your picture" width=350></td>	   <td><img src="URL of your picture" width=350></td></tr>
</Table>

 

You can "Open" your HTML document in your browser to check the code as you work on it in a Text Editor. I use a great little text editor called "Notespad" that allows you to have several documents open at the same time. If you do your code "by hand," it will be much cleaner than if you use Front Page.

 

And, to answer your last question, I believe many cache placers are way too computer illiterate to even care about HTML. Many can't spell or even find the Shift key . . .

 

Edit to add that the code for a "Space" was stripped out. I put four of those between the image tags. That code is "  ;" without the quotes, with the ';' next to the rest of the code.

Edited September 1, 2007 by Miragee