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al hildenbrand

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Lost Archived Posts

Lost Archived Posts

Webmaster Joe,

I went looking for a thread started March 30, 2002 by Ed MacLaren titled Touch voltage during a ground fault. I wished to refer to it in another thread.

I used the search to no avail. Searching the Archived Posts section returned zero. Then I went to look at the archived section and started scrolling back through the 117 odd pages reported at the bottom of the screen.

Page 7 and, apparently, all subsequent pages show no posts.
 

al hildenbrand

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Webmaster Joe,

The Archived Posts Forum has 101 pages, all claiming there are NO posts in the Archived Posts.

A lot of stuff is missing.
 

George Stolz

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Why is this picture not visible?
images
 

sandsnow

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In regards to posting photo's, how does that work? I tried the add image link but nothing happens. I used the img in brakets and that worked, but it shows it actual size. I did not find anything in the faq's that helped.

How are you guys doing that?????

Here is the thread: http://www.mikeholt.com/codeForum/viewtopic.php?t=5791

I don't know if it's there because my work computer does not allow linking to private hosting sites.

Thanks
 

al hildenbrand

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georgestolz said:
So we have to load "downsized" images for them to show? :?
I suspect it has more to do with limits the alpha geeks at Google sneek into their server software that helps cut down on "wasted" bandwidth to help control the charges for bandwidth at the end of the month.

If you copied the photo to photobucket (or similar location) and used that URL for the IMG UBB command there'd be no problem displaying the photo at whatever size you wanted.
 

al hildenbrand

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sandsnow said:
I did not find anything in the faq's that helped.

How are you guys doing that?
Hi Larry,

There is a terse bit of text here.

There is also the whole section on hints for using "BBCode" here.

Also, you will find what I am referencing in this post at a link on the lower left of the "Post a reply" page, below all the new smilies we get to use. It looks like BBCode
 

George Stolz

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Makes sense, thanks Al. I'll experiment further.

Since you mentioned it, I think that happened before the change. If I had of been less lazy, I could have gone to the host site directly, and that probably would have worked. ;)
 

George Stolz

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A few other things:
  • Moderators/Members still don't have their title above their avatar
  • Apparently, occupation is not a required field for new subscribers
  • Is there no "Report Post" button, or am I blind?
 

al hildenbrand

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georgestolz said:
I could have gone to the host site directly, and that probably would have worked. ;)
Yes, exactly.

Go to Charlie's post where he displays the photo you were attempting to link to. Click on "Quote" in his post and look at the link he used. His link avoids the redirect at the Google servers.
 

al hildenbrand

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Larry,

I think I just got more of your question. Were you asking how to do a thumbnail that would link to a larger view?

There is a certain courtesy to the page viewers with slower connections to not fill the page with lots of image.

I went back to the thread you referenced where you displayed the panel photo. I right-clicked on the photo and selected "Properties" and saw the url for the image is over at Photobucket.

Here's a trick for posting a smaller image that can be enlarged that I've just started using.

Photobucket's "album" page has all those thumbnails of the photos in the album, along with the URL, Tag and IMG code. If you put the mouse arrow on the photobucket album thumbnail image and right click on it, choose Properties, then you will get a window the gives the location of that thumbnail image. Highlight that location and copy it and use it for an IMG display at the Forum. Nest the IMG line inside a URL line. . .like this:
Code:
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/AlHildenbrand/Electrical/GeorgetownServiceEntrance2.jpg][img]http://photobucket.com/albums/v665/AlHildenbrand/Electrical/th_GeorgetownServiceEntrance2.jpg[/img][/url]
Which, when activated, looks like:

The whole photo is active as a link that opens another browser with the larger image in it.

So, for short, the "nesting" of BBCode is:
Code:
[url=http://xxxxxx.jpg][img]http://yyyyyyyy.jpg[/img][/url]

And if I wish, I can even add text to this by putting it between the brackets just "outside" of the IMG brackets. . .like this:

[url=http://xxxxxx.jpg]TEXT HERE with carraige return[img]http://yyyyyyyy.jpg[/img]carraige return then TEXT HERE[/url]

So, the picture becomes:
TEXT HERE

TEXT HERE
 
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