MikeB has written an excellent guide to posting links and images in the
Almanac. I like to view high resolution pictues as much as anyone ('say no more...'), but posts that contain lots of links to full size images can make the user experience a little tedious, even with high speed connections. Once the images are quoted within the thread it starts getting a bit messy. It's standard practice to use smaller images or thumbnails on websites, yet I can't remember seeing it done on this forum. So if I wanted to post a set of eight high res photos, I'd create a set of thumbnails, post those and make each thumbnail link to the fullsize image as follows.
This is achieved by nesting the IMG tag within the URL tag.
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[url=<full size image>][img]<thumbnail image>[/img][/url]
In the above example each thumbnail is
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[url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/medicalgenetics/2006/060107DSC01026.jpg][img]http://www.gla.ac.uk/medicalgenetics/2006/060107DSC01026_small.jpg[/img][/url]
Even for just one photo, it can make the thread much cleaner. The photo is one taken in Cuan Sound by Douglas Wilcox. It was used for illustration in the
Almanac, so I'm hoping he doesn't mind me using it again here.