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DaveR
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Initially Posted - 09/17/2009 : 13:55:09

I can't remember how to insert a photo into your signature, I thought it was just [.img] your photo [./img] (of course without the periods (it thinks it's a pic if they aren't there) but..............
Could somebody help me out please? And then maybe we can unlock the How to Post Photos to the Forum thread long enough to post the "how to" for next time

Thanks!

Dave Robbins
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http://bambooc25.weebly.com/

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/17/2009 : 14:19:10

Dave,
Here's what my sig looks like, with parenthesis subbed in for square brackets.

(img)http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6d726b3127cce8d5ef75acd8700000010100AZNXDVu2cMmPA(/img)
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(url="http://www.uniquetreen.com")Unique Treen(/url) come take a look, become a fan and follow us on (url="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Duvall-WA/Unique-Treen/85166517511?ref=ts")Facebook(/url)

Dunno if that helps or not. You can also make your photo a link, which isn't too hard either.

Other forums I belong to have the code tags which will let you escape the tags so someone can cut & paste directly from your post if they want to. I've tried here, they just make the text disappear.

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Response Posted - 09/17/2009 : 15:15:22

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR
 I can't remember how to insert a photo into your signature, I thought it was just [.img] your photo [./img] (of course without the periods (it thinks it's a pic if they aren't there) but..............
Could somebody help me out please? And then maybe we can unlock the How to Post Photos to the Forum thread long enough to post the "how to" for next time

Thanks!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

As long as you have a valid image location URL that should work fine.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 05:27:32

I'm using Picasa for my host. I also have an account with Shutterfly but it seems to me they minimize your pics after a while. Maybe Picasa is the problem. And David, I couldn't even get the preview to work using ( instead of [.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 05:49:34

I just uploaded some small pics to Shutterfly and it blows them up, pixilating the photo and tells me the resolution is to low. David, how did you upload your small pic?

Edited by - DaveR on 09/18/2009 06:21:11

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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 06:20:56

It used to be that you just captured the URL for Shutterfly's thumbnail of your picture, and that'd give you the same size image. That's what's in my signature, and I set it up so you can click on either and see a larger version (also from Shutterfly). Now it appears they don't let you capture the thumbnail URL.

Dave, I could see your pic in IE 8 (until you removed it), but not in Google Chrome. (...not the first time Chrome has let me down.)

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 09/18/2009 08:45:02

delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 09:54:12

Dave,
I actually don't recall. In Shutterfly, you used to be able to manipulate the numerical sequence of the file to change it's size, but I don't remember how to do that either. I plan to move to Picasa since that's where Rita has all of our photos archived anyway, I just haven't yet.

I may have also shrunk a photo purposely for it using MSPaint. I can explain how if you're interested.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 12:12:26

David, I use paint shop pro to edit photos and am pretty good at it but thanks, and DaveB (what is this the Dave Thread?)I was seeing it the other day for 24 hours or so on IE8 but then the dreaded red x appeared. Maybe it's some security thing with my pc ................. nah, couldn't be .............. I guess I'll keep at it and figure it out eventually. In the mean time I'm open to any suggestions, thanks guys.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 12:26:51

and now I'm seeing it again on IE8 where I'm not logged in and susceptible to previously stored pages, we'll see if it lasts.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 13:50:51

Maybe delete your cache & cookies?

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/19/2009 : 06:04:25

still there

I did delete my history and cookies yesterday, maybe that was it.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/19/2009 : 07:17:03

Dave,
I went and grabbed your source for your photo, and if I simply paste it into the IMG tags, it works fine (in Firefox, haven't tested in IE or Chrome). However, if I right click on your photo icon and tell it to reload or view, nothing happens. You might try starting from scratch, or cut & pasting it into a text editor to remove any formatting that may have snuck in somehow. I did that and here's the result:

Edit: I went to do some cutting and pasting so I could recreate your entire sig to see if I could get it to work. When I opened up a new browser tab (again in Firefox) to be able to switch back & forth between this post and a view of your sig, lo & behold, your sig now works. Maybe it was simply that I had a cached version of your photo, dunno. However, if that's true, it kind of sucks for you since if your cached photo is on everyone's computer, they'll never see it until they do a reload. Maybe make a copy of the photo with a different name on your server? That way the cached one becomes irrelevant because the "new" photo will automatically be displayed instead of the cached one, which no longer has a reference.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/19/2009 : 11:41:15

David-
I'm not sure what was going on. I've changed photos a couple of times so that should cause anyone's browser to reload, but since I dumped all of my stored internet goodies yesterday I've been seeing it on FF and IE. I think I'm good now. Thanks for the help guys! (now watch it go away tomorrow

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Response Posted - 09/20/2009 : 14:47:31

Dave, send me a link to your pic and I'll help out.

Paul

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/20/2009 : 15:07:28

And now it's broken again.

Paul,
Here's the link to his current photo.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_D5kMdVCavrs/SrPeBh9RJdI/AAAAAAAABXE/9LEwGkts5OY/P9050042ssm.JPG

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/21/2009 : 05:51:07

Isn't it crazy? It's on the Picasa Web album site. I post a lot of pics from there with no problems, I don't understand why this should be happening in the signature.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/21/2009 : 12:49:56

So after I couldn't see my pic and posted this morning I checked back after a while and saw my pic again. I'm guessing Paul went in and re-did the thing in my profile. Is that true Paul? Or is it another mystery?

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 09/21/2009 : 13:53:42

Dave, I've never seen your photo.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/21/2009 : 19:23:02

It was up for a couple years John, at leasty I'm pretty sure it was. looked like this

Ut-oh, now it's not posting regular photos either!

Edited by - DaveR on 09/22/2009 05:37:17

DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/23/2009 : 05:20:23

I did a search and came up with some [url="http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/showthread.php?t=50620"]interesting stuff[/url]. It seems that Picasa has had some issues with photo linking for a while. So I'll use a different photo hosting site.

PS- I am now a proud member of photobucket

Edited by - DaveR on 09/23/2009 06:33:27

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Response Posted - 09/23/2009 : 07:25:42

TA-DAHHHH!

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Response Posted - 09/23/2009 : 09:07:24

Bin busy on the Ballot process so did nothing to your profile Dave.

Paul

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/23/2009 : 13:39:37

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> TA-DAHHHH! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I know!! It was killing me!

Something else interesting. While photobucket is great and free and all that, it's slower because of the commercial ads and the upload system. In my searches I came across [url="http://waveless.smugmug.com/Vacation/Laborday09-Cruise/9730462_AWU6D#658591693_miTPN"]Smugmug.com[/url]. It costs $40 a year (.11 per day) but as you can see is a nice looking site and has a great uploader where you can upload a folder of 100 pics at once if you want. I'm sure there's other nice pic hosting sites out there but I may just spring for this one once the trial period is over.

Edited by - DaveR on 09/23/2009 13:45:00

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