User blog:Tesla Man/Off The Topic: Pictures Part 1

Hey, Community, you're looking nice today! So anyways, today, i got a message from a good friend on the wiki BackToTheFuturama (i remember when he was still a small little Wiki Contributer :P) who pretty much told me that it was impossible for him to put pictures on his user page because i had edited it to be all fancy-like. So do not fear BTTF! I will solve your problem!

But this brought me to talk about pictures on the wiki in general, so that's what i'll do in this first half.

So, when you look on a page, you pretty much see a picture that looks like this: A picture with a border around it and (what i think is really ugly) a bar at the bottom saying who posted it and the caption.

Now there is another way to do it, like this: This does not have the border around it and does not have the ugly bar at the bottom. The only problem is that you can't add a caption... or can you?

no. you can't.

so if you want a caption, use the one on top which i will call photo A and if you are just posting the picture, use the bottom which i will call photo Q because the letter Q doesn't get much love especially in Scrabble.

So we all know how to make photo A, but how do you make photo Q? It's simple.

Step 1- Go to source mode

above your text, there is a gray bar that asks you for bold, italicized, left side, right side font, etc. And on the right of it there are two tabs poking their little heads up, one says Visual, and than the other says Source which is hiding in shadow. Click on the source one and you shall be transported in to a world of gibberish.

Step 2- Find your picture

Amongst said gibberish, there is a picture, hiding itself, but it doesn't look like a picture, its just numbers and letters. Though it's all in sequence. Find the right code- it should look basically like this:

[[File:Hitlerblock.jpg|center|thumb|200px]

(Note: I had to remove the last "]" at the end to keep it in letters.)

Step 3- Fix it

once you have found it, you can change the picture in any way you want with this, and i'll go more into depth if you guys want it, but for now, i'll just tell you how to do this with it. There is just one this you have to delete, and it's the part that says "thumb". "Thumb" is wiki code for Thumbnail, so making it smaller and adding a caption and whatnot, so if you delete that it should look like this:

[[File:Hitlerblock.jpg|center|200px]

(Note: I had to remove the last "]" at the end to keep it in letters.)

And there you have it.

NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETED, I'D ALSO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT ADDING A PICTURE TO A BLOG AND ADDING A PICTURE TO A REVAMPED USER PAGE