Recently, when many of us were posting pictures of ourselves in a thread, I thought mine would accompany my post and be displayed. Instead, only the URL of my gjpix.com link appeared. I followed the SS forum how-to's on posting a picture and thought that since my picture WAS physically stored somewhere on the web, it would be displayed with my post.
Okay, question - for those who posted pictures that DID accompany their posts - is this that temporary Network54 2-week picture posting limitation? Will the pictures no longer be viewable after two weeks?
I've edited your post to show you what I'm about to say... so you can edit it back if you don't want that pic on display here. Nice rug though.
If the URL starts with http:// and ends in .jpg or .gif, the N54 code recognises it as an image file and displays it. In your GreatestJournal gallery (I am assuming this is where the image was stored) the link they give you is to a dynamically generated PHP page. But you can get the URL for where GJ is storing your actual image by right-clicking the image and selecting properties, then copying the address to your clipboard. This is what I did to display the doggy and rug photo above. Underneath that is the link I got by copying the address in the address bar of the browser. And this is the link that is formed from copying the Link information from underneath the photo in your GJ gallery:
See? it doesn't end in .jpg or .gif, so the image itself doesn't show.
Yes, the photos that are now missing were put into N54's temporary files area, so they will have been automatically and permanently deleted by N54 after a couple of weeks. Squalorsurvivors.com is always happy to host images for members to put in their posts, people just need to email them to me. We have about 60MB space here that comes with the premier forum account, but since all the static pages are hosted at DotNetPark, only 15MB is currently used. Also, our "share" of the "temporary image files" space is limited - not sure exactly how much space each account gets, but it's probably about 1MB or so.
The "properties" option wasn't available when I right-clicked over the photo and displayed the pop-up menu. But I noted down the picture #, and modified the URL like you listed.
(sigh!) In preview mode, I still see just the modified URL link, but no picture!
Yes, it's me and the fur babies from a family portrait in 1998. That's Maggie Mae (passed on in 2004), Little_Stinker, Me (yours truly), and My Golden Girl. Patoodie-Butt dog didn't arrive on the scene until a year later.
I don't know how Pigpen figured out the URL, because it's not apparent to me on my own gjpix.com account....hmmmmm....
Enjoy the picture! I "believe" myself to still look like that chick in the photo. (in "spirit" at least...)
Pigpen figured out the URL by doing what she said before - right clicking the image and selecting Properties from the Context menu, then copying the URL from where it says Address (URL):. She was using the Maxthon browser at the time.
This works in Internet Explorer, Maxthon (a browser built on the Internet Explorer engine), Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator and Opera (except in Opera in the right-click menu it is called Image properties) browsers...
I would have guessed that the SBC Yahoo browser is a modified version of Internet Explorer too, so I am very surprised that you can't access the image's properties through the right-click menu. I can't see the benefit of disabling this for SBC users.
I created a test GJPix gallery, which uses the Coppermine Photo gallery PHP script, and it never shows you the URL for the image itself. If you want to share images here in the forums, you need that information, so you could
a) Stop using GJPix and switch to a photo gallery service that shows you where the image itself is stored, like Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ , OR
b) Carry on using GJPix but switch to a browser like IE or Firefox that lets you access the image properties (assuming SBC allows you to use a browser other than their own, but it would seem crazee if they didn't).
I went to flickr.com and tried to sign up - I immediately got an SBC Yahoo window that says - "Are you sure you want to close all browser windows?" I only had two choices: "OK" and "Cancel" When I clicked "ok," I got totally logged out of SBC Yahoo and my browser closed. I tried this twice - same thing happens.
hmmmmmm.....SBC Yahoo seems to be one big poopie head!
Bizarre that SBC Yahoo is not playing nicely with flickr
September 25 2005, 5:44 PM
Especially since flickr is now part of Yahoo.
I'm pretty sure that you should be able to use plain, unadulterated IE with SBC Yahoo, since I have a friend who has SBC Yahoo as an ISP, and on the few times I've used her computer, I haven't noticed anything odd about IE.
As for your photo... It doesn't fit my image of you, darn it.
I took your Little Ninja icon, and combined it with your Japanese and German-American background, and deduced that you looked like Edna Mode.
Instead, that photo looks more like Jaclyn Smith. Except without the overtweezed eyebrows of her Charlie's Angels days.
Guess I'm going to have to admit that I can't guess appearances from online personas. *sigh...*
My Sistine Chapel project (hand painting the popcorn ceiling)
I had to close SBC Yahoo as my browser, locate/start Internet Explorer since it'd been so long since I last used it. I went to my gjpix.com gallery, right-clicked on the picture, and was able to see the submenu with a "Propertues" option. In SBC Yahoo, I am limited to three options from the submenu (like "Copy" "Save Picture As" and "Bookmark"). Maybe there's some security settings or internet options I need to investigate.
I looked at my SBC Yahoo browser settings. Under "Miscellaneous" in the Security settings, I have "access data sources across domains" disabled. Do you think that might be why I had limited pop-up menu options when viewing a picture? (I guess I could test it and see if it works enabled.)
Update: I tested it and enabled the security option. It still didn't work.
I Googled 'SBC Yahoo browser "image properties" ' and found...
September 25 2005, 9:46 PM
a number of people with the same issue. Some were asking for help with the problem (none received any useful answers, BTW) and some were just resigned to it and asking other users to give them the URL of some banner/image. It sounds to me like the simplest workaround for you is just to use IE anytime you want to access image properties.
I tried one more time using SBC Yahoo browser. My hopes turned up and I thought I was a silly doofus, because instead of right-clicking on the picture, I went to the File menu and chose "Properties" from it. Yep, a properties dialog showed up, and I was able to view and copy the URL posted for the picture.
However....after pasting the URL here in a test post, it still didn't show up in Preview mode. So I guess the solution is to use Internet Explorer anytime I want to obtain the correct URL for a picture I want to post.
I took that pic Friday. She'd gotten a card and $20 in the mail as a congrats from her Grandpa and Grandma in Iowa for being a "big" girl and using the potty so much. (She still wets sometimes, but is well on her way to being trained.)
We went to WalMart, and she wanted nothing to do with "girly" toys. She's really into cars, trucks and motorcycles.
She was having a hard time making up her mind, and then she spotted IT...a Tonka firetruck, with that helmet and some accessories. As soon as we got home, she wanted me to take a picture of my new little "firefighter".
(I'm 5' 2")
