Ok my dear BTD ladies ~

I'm technologically challenged, and basically computer illiterate ~ I'm trying to figure out how to navigate the new and improved Diamond Bistro so I can put some listings up...

Is there some mysterious way of getting my pictures from Photo Bucket to Diamond Bistro?? Is there some way of linking them? Help!!! I'm truly blonde!!!

I need some help....In layman's terms please!

once you're logged in at Photobucket, select the checkbox beneath each picture you'd like to put into any given listing.

or if you've just uploaded some pictures for a listing, check the "select all" button.

at the bottom of the screen, you should see (probably blue) text saying Choose Action

click that, and Generate Link Codes

a window will pop up with the codes

you'll want the info from the second box down, for full sized pictures.

the first box is clickable thumbnails, which would be useful if you want to show a LOT of pictures.

look for the code in the box titled :

HTML for websites & blogs (MySpace, eBay, LiveJournal, Craigslist and more)

Full size

if you click in the box, it should highlight yellow and automagically copy itself into your clipboard. if not, you can cntl+a to highlight and the cntl+c to copy it.


now, in your DB listing in the box where you type the description. see the blue anchor? click just to the right of it, on the blue HTML icon

you'll get another popup window. click in it and then hit cntl+v (or right click and select paste) to paste in what you just copied from PhotoBucket.
then click the green Update button and the popup will close.

and you should see your pictures displaying in the listing.



that help?

Thank you Dana! You are an angel!

glad i could help!

now, doing it that way puts pictures into the actual listing, it won't put a preview thumbnail out beside your listing for when someone's browsing. you'd need to upload a picture in the regular way for that.

just to be clear, 'cuz i forgot to mention that earlier.


and it all sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. after you've done it a few times, it'll only take a couple of seconds to do. promise!

Yeah, I'm so not computer savvy, it's just sad!

I did get my listing up, with some giant pictures lol, but need to get one in the ad that shows up. Need to put a photo on my desktop and download it that way I guess?

Anyway, thanks for your help! I need to spend some time messing with it ~ maybe next week when things settle down around my place.