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johnfowles · 09-10-2004, 12:03 PM

quote:Originally posted by charlene:
show off...
i put the [img] at the beginning and [/img] after it...several different spots to end the URL as well....
lol
Yes I am sure you did Char but.....
My Dear Charlene
I also feel sure that I must have told you and/or the irrepressible (ebullient) Laurel at least once before that in order to display a picture (be it a jpg or gif) it
certainly helps indeed it is essential to use a genuine picture address and not the address of an actual web page or other
object. I can see exactly why you had a problem:-
In your undoubted haste to get the pic to corfid you right clicked on the accompanying blurb so your address was as shown in
this screenshot:-

Had you right clicked on the actual picture You would have obtained the correct addy (as used by "clever-clogs" Jones)

BTW I did once advise that it was a good idea to try pasting whatever address you proposed to use into your browser before
going public to save making a spectacle (read ass) of yourself!
And I have just realised that if you use the suggested upload to Sidney's Yahoo Group (to which I found you cannot link directly which is posibly because the URL is too long..hence my suggestion to create a notlong URL). well if you do that very thing the notlongsite then most helpfully shows your notlong URL as a hyperliknk so you can immediately confirm that the link works and will display your chosen pic. But thank you for giving me such a splendid example of an error to include in the troubleshooting section of my planned major rewrite of my tutorial.
The irony is that your chosen pic (oft used by peddlars of the Much More Music Video on ebay) has already been uploaded
(on July 23rd) to :- http://groups.msn.com/TheHomePageOfGordonLightfoot
by the group's founder young Sidney Freedman
Gotta love ya!!
John

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot
(edited for typos and to remove an extraneous space after one of my [img] tags)

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 10, 2004).]

09-10-2004, 12:03 PM	#4
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by charlene: show off... i put the [img] at the beginning and [/img] after it...several different spots to end the URL as well.... lol Yes I am sure you did Char but..... My Dear Charlene I also feel sure that I must have told you and/or the irrepressible (ebullient) Laurel at least once before that in order to display a picture (be it a jpg or gif) it certainly helps indeed it is essential to use a genuine picture address and not the address of an actual web page or other object. I can see exactly why you had a problem:- In your undoubted haste to get the pic to corfid you right clicked on the accompanying blurb so your address was as shown in this screenshot:- Had you right clicked on the actual picture You would have obtained the correct addy (as used by "clever-clogs" Jones) BTW I did once advise that it was a good idea to try pasting whatever address you proposed to use into your browser before going public to save making a spectacle (read ass) of yourself! And I have just realised that if you use the suggested upload to Sidney's Yahoo Group (to which I found you cannot link directly which is posibly because the URL is too long..hence my suggestion to create a notlong URL). well if you do that very thing the notlongsite then most helpfully shows your notlong URL as a hyperliknk so you can immediately confirm that the link works and will display your chosen pic. But thank you for giving me such a splendid example of an error to include in the troubleshooting section of my planned major rewrite of my tutorial. The irony is that your chosen pic (oft used by peddlars of the Much More Music Video on ebay) has already been uploaded (on July 23rd) to :- http://groups.msn.com/TheHomePageOfGordonLightfoot by the group's founder young Sidney Freedman Gotta love ya!! John ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot (edited for typos and to remove an extraneous space after one of my [img] tags) [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 10, 2004).]