I was hoping that I could post some pictures on the forums but thumb nail them. I'm not good with coding. Is there an HTML or BBC code that I can use to thumb nail pictures so that they don't come out enormous on the forum page? My pics are all from photobucket, so their linkable- I just can't locate a code to do it. Was hoping someone might know.

Nothing on thumbnails, hm?

haha you should see the big a** pictures I post because I can't find a way to thumbnail them in the forums. Any suggestions would be helpful.

So HTML will let you specify width and height of the image is displayed on a page however HTML (if I recall correctly) is not directly supported in these forums.

There is no BBCode for making an image thumbnail or to force a specific size when it is rendered.

What you want to look for is how the images are posted when you view them on your site. When looking at your own gallery you probably see them as a thumbnails. If you hover over them you should see a link to the image being shown in your browsers status bar. That image most likely is not the same as the image you get when you click on it. I'll use an example from the galleries here on our dkp system site.

In both IE and FireFox is you right click on the thumbnail and go to properties it will show you the actual link url to the thumbnail. In this case it is.
(note I am dropping some goofy bbcode to stop the system from rendering the images here)
http://dkpfiles.com/inconceivable/pics/t_50.jpg
This actually links to the image:
http://dkpfiles.com/inconceivable/pics/50.jpg

Now in my post I want to make an image render as the thumbnail but provide it as a link to the image in my picture gallery (or picture hosting site). We can do that by providing using the URL BBCode tag.
The URL that you want to be linked is the full image so we would place it in the URL= tag as shown.
[/i]g][/url]

But you also want to render the thumbnail so that it is shown in your post and that would go between the opening and closing url tags.

[url=http://dkpfiles.com/inconceivable/pics/50.jpg]http://dkpfiles.com/inconceivable/pics/t_50.jpg[/url]

What this gives you is the following.

[url=http://dkpfiles.com/inconceivable/pics/50.jpg]

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