Use of Pictures
in the Free Online Auction

If you use an online photo sharing site such as flickr, and wish to use those images in your auction, be sure to use the URL of the image, not of the page it is on.  To do that, do the following:
 
  1. Open the page the image is on.
  2. Right-click on the image, and a small options box opens.
  3. Select "Properties" then "Copy image location “
  4. Paste that into the “Image URL” field in the auction creation form.

For additional pictures you may want in the body of the offering, such as a photo of the whole plant, you must enter some html code in the format:

Less-than sign, “img”, space, “src”, equals, quote, image location, quote, greater-than sign. It should look like this:

<img src=”image_location.jpg”>

• The “<” & “>” indicates it is to be interpreted by browsers as code.
• “img” tells your browser it is an image.
• “src=” tells it where to look for the image (it’s source).
• That location must be surrounded by quotes to delineate the web address (URL) of the image.

If your image is just too large (we recommend no more than 200 pixels tall or wide), you can limit the size by adding a bit more code.  For example, if your image is in landscape orientation, that code can be:

<img src=”image_location.jpg” width="200">

If the image is in portrait orientation:

<img src=”image_location.jpg” height="200">