I've been running a thread on the Building a Home forum that substantially repeats this thread and refers to our FAQ. The issue of private versus public albums on Photobucket came up (I thought the whole album had to be public to allow you to link to it without a password). aa62579 says that you can link to a specific photo in a private album and that link will be visible. You just can't link to the whole private album and see it without a password. I've never used Photobucket so I'm asking the question of those of you who are familiar with sites such as Photobucket, Picasa, PictureTrail, etc.. Is this a general characteristic of all web-hosting sites? I'd like to add this information to the FAQ. Thanks, Claire

These are the specific comments that were posted on the "A new FAQs for Homebuilding Forum! thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by dekeoboe (My Page) on Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 22:05 Claire, can you include information on how to make it a clickable picture? That would help because many times the picture as posted is too small to be able to read the dimensions of the rooms. My response on that thread: dekeoboe: That's a good point, and the needs of the Building Forum are different from the New England Gardening Forum. The gardeners usually want to post pics that show the subject matter clearly, but not necessarily in great detail, and want the pic to fit into the page view without disrupting the text around and after it. This irritates viewers. The building forum, on the other hand, often needs greater detail (to show dimensions, etc.) so the file size and image size can be much bigger. You can always open a large file in one window and then go back to the original page to discuss it. Thumbnails are probably the best option, but you need an album on a webhosting site like Picasa, Photobucket, etc. to provide thumbnails (a thumbnail is a small pic that is clickable and the click directs you to the full-size pic in the album on the hosting site). If you use TinyPic you can't use thumbnails but you can still determine the size of the file during the uploading process. That size will of course be limited by the size of the file on your computer. Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 23:04 In TinyPic the acceptable image file types are: jpg, png, gif, base 64 encoded image, or bmp. The "choose file" button is now labeled "Browse". When you choose "Upload Now" you will have to enter the scrambled code, then you only need to click once on the top code (labeled "HTML for websites") and it will automatically be copied to your clipboard so you can paste it. My response here: I've incorporated most of these comments in the above text, except that I still see "Choose File" on the TinyPic.com site, not "Browse". Claire

I just figured it out: Internet Explorer Saves Images As Bitmaps (.bmp Files) Applies To SUMMARY When you save an image in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the image is saved by default as a bitmap (.bmp). You do not have the option to save the image by using an extension other than .bmp. You experience this behavior even when the image uses a different format (such as .gif or .jpeg). For example, when you right-click an image on a Web page, and then click Save Picture As, the file name that appears in the File name box is Untitled, and the file type that appears in the Save as type box is Bitmap (*.bmp). CAUSE This behavior may occur if a damaged program file (for example, an ActiveX or Java object) is downloaded to the SystemRoot\Downloaded Program Files folder on your hard disk. RESOLUTION To troubleshoot and resolve this behavior, empty the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder, and then delete the files in the Downloaded Program Files folder that are listed as either Unknown or Damaged. To do so: Start Internet Explorer (if it is not already started). Empty the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder. To do so: On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. Click the General tab. Under Temporary Internet files, click Delete Files. When you are prompted to delete all temporary Internet files, click OK. In the Downloaded Program Files folder on your hard disk, remove the files that are listed as either Unknown or Damaged. To do so: On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. Click the General tab. Under Temporary Internet files, click Settings. Click View Objects. The list of program files that are downloaded to the SystemRoot\Downloaded Program Files folder on your hard disk appears in the Downloaded Program Files window. In the Status column, note the files that are listed as either Unknown or Damaged. Remove these files. To do so, right-click the file, and then click Remove. When you are prompted to confirm the removal, click Yes. Close the Downloaded Program Files window, and then click OK two times. Save an image in Internet Explorer to test and determine if the issue is resolved. If the issue continues to occur after you remove all downloaded program files that are listed as Unknown or Damaged, try removing the other downloaded program files that are on the list. Note: The next time that you need one of the files that you removed from the Downloaded Program Files folder, you will receive a prompt to download the file to your hard disk in Internet Explorer. MORE INFORMATION For additional information about how to troubleshoot a similar issue, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 260650 Internet Explorer Does Not Save Graphics Files in the Proper Format if Username:Password Is Part of the URL 250747 Right-Clicking, Selecting 'Save Picture As' Does Not Save Image with Correct Extension The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 2000 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows Millennium Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 98 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 2000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows Millennium Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows

Okay, I know that it's easy to get around the disable-right-click code, because I've done it myself. However, I'd still like to know if this code I'm using is correct, because I put it into my sites, logged off, emptied all cookies and temporary files and history, and so far it doesn't work. This is the code that was given to me from a friend, and I used copy/paste so I know I didn't forget any part of the code (of course this is all enclosed by and >, with "" instead of "[" or "]". Is this the right code to use? I put it after the "body" code.): script language=java-scriptgt; [!-- /* Disable right mouse click Script (By Crash @ http://walk.to/crash) Submitted to and permission granted to Dynamicdrive.com to feature script in it's archive For full source code to this script and 100's more, visit http://dynamicdrive.com */ var message="Amy L. Howe"; function click(e) " if (document.all) " if (event.button == 2) " alert(message); return false; ] ] if (document.layers) " if (e.which == 3) " alert(message); return false; ] ] ] if (document.layers) " document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); ] document.onmousedown=click; // --] [/script