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Er.. #1398 12/12/02 10:15 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 111 Hell F Frog OP Vogon poet
OP Frog Vogon poet F Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 111 Hell	Ok, I have a working urlfor a picture for the forum here, and, it doesnt seem to want to work. I've tried to url manually, it works. The pic is .jpg format. I've seen other of this format, such as Merlin's. Any idea what's wrong?

Re: Er.. #1399 12/12/02 10:24 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 144 Montreal, Canada D Dana Vogon poet
Dana Vogon poet D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 144 Montreal, Canada	I'm not quite sure, but doesn't geocities.com sometimes restrict outside links? Dana

Re: Er.. #1400 12/12/02 11:15 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 111 Hell F Frog OP Vogon poet
OP Frog Vogon poet F Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 111 Hell	Hmm.. that may be it, and I also noticed my image is only 73x45 pixels.. and all the others are 80x80 exactly, so that may be it too.

Re: Er.. #1401 12/12/02 11:17 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,884 Norwich, UK	The pixel-size isn't the problem, it will just stretch the image to fit if it's not 80x80 (which is why mine looks so messed up). It's almost certainly GeoCities.

Re: Er.. #1402 12/12/02 11:36 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 154 SE Pennsylvania, USA K Karen Vogon poet
Karen Vogon poet K Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 154 SE Pennsylvania, USA	Geocities gives you that annoying generic "don't link from here" picture though....

Re: Er.. #1403 13/12/02 09:08 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 817 UK P Poppy Hoopy frood
Poppy Hoopy frood P Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 817 UK	I had a similar problem with my pic. It worked fine at first, then suddenly it got replaced with the Angelfire logo for some reason.

Re: Er.. #1404 13/12/02 11:30 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,015 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,015 London, UK	Both Geocities and AngelFire don't allow you to host files on their servers for use on other websites. http://www.hostmysig.com is made for that purpose, so it's a good idea to use that.

Re: Er.. #1405 13/12/02 01:59 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 817 UK P Poppy Hoopy frood
Poppy Hoopy frood P Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 817 UK	That works - cheers!

Re: Er.. #1406 13/12/02 05:42 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 334 Athens, Greece F FunChatter Fjord artisan
FunChatter Fjord artisan F Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 334 Athens, Greece	hehe thanx, works great just a bit too mutch ads but thats ok thanx again for the ad

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