Adding embedded photo to cache listing

[+JoPo2010]

Hi, I want to add a photo to my first cache listing, but I don't know how to embed it. I don't want it as a background image, nor do I want it a link. Do you know what I mean? I just want to see the image above or below the cache description.

 

Anyone know how to do that?

 

Thanks!

[I!]

Here's an example, editing the page description for GC1WMEF.

 

[+niraD]

See also the knowledge books article Display an Image in a Cache Description.

[+JoPo2010]

You guys are the best! Thank you!

[+geodarts]

I have seen cache pages where the image takes over the page. So there are some simple html tags that work well with photos. I generally use the "Height" and "width" tags to reduce and control the size of how the picture is displayed on a web page - although you have to be careful to use sizes in keeping with thr original porportions so that the image is not distorted. "Border" can be good if you want a border. "Hspace" or "vspace" can buffer a photo so that text does not run into it. "Align" controls where a picture is displayed in relation to the text.

 

A typical code in one of my cache pages might be <img src="http://*****.jpg" align="Left" height="300" width="250" hspace="8" vspace="8">. The numbers refer to pixels, that can be determined through a graphics editor or the picture's properties. It can be helpful to look at the resulting page in different sized windows or with different browsers, just to see how it is being displayed under different conditions.

 

There are many basic html tutorials that can be found through a search. This is one of them, but I have no particular reason to recommend it over any other one.

Edited March 2, 2011 by mulvaney

[+hzoi]

Just be aware, though embedded images show up on the cache page, they are not part of the GPX or LOC file, so most cachers doing paperless caching will not see them unless the cachers are actually looking at the cache page on the Internet.

[+niraD]

Please don't use the height and width attributes to "resize" images. Instead, upload an image of the correct size and use it. When you use the HTML attributes to "resize" images, the user must still download the entire image, and then the browser resizes it. Browsers generally do a poor job of resizing images, compared to any graphics software.

[+StarBrand]

Please don't use the height and width attributes to "resize" images. Instead, upload an image of the correct size and use it. When you use the HTML attributes to "resize" images, the user must still download the entire image, and then the browser resizes it. Browsers generally do a poor job of resizing images, compared to any graphics software.

Amen!!

[+Gorak]

Just be aware, though embedded images show up on the cache page, they are not part of the GPX or LOC file, so most cachers doing paperless caching will not see them unless the cachers are actually looking at the cache page on the Internet.

That's not exactly true. It is true for the GPX files that I create in GSAK and download to my GPS. However, GSAK has a feature that will allow you to download all of the image files for the caches in your GSAK database so that they can be viewed offline or used when generating HTML files that you can download to your PDA/Smartphone and view offline while in the field.

 

When I go out caching I have my GPS loaded with whatever GPX file I generated just prior to leaving. I also have the HTML files generated and loaded onto my Smartphone in case I'm in the field and need to refer to images or read more logs than are downloaded into the GPS.

[cmaille]

Thanks for the great info!!! I'm getting ready to put out a multi/puzzle cache, and I have need of doing exactly that! I actually logged on here this evening planning on doing a search for it when low and behold, WHAMMO! there is a thread for it in my usual reading!

How awesome is that!

 

Thanks folks!