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Photo upload tool troubleshooting
Categories: Tips, Miscellaneous
Here are some tips if you're having trouble uploading photos to the site.
ADDING PHOTOS TO BLOG ENTRY
When you make a blog entry, you can choose to "post entry and add photos" to add photos directly to your blog (an album or a single photo). The screen will darken and a box will appear asking if you wan tto "add a single photo" or "embed an album." If this box does NOT appear then simply click on the screen and save your blog entry. To add a photo to that blog entry go to "post photos", upload your photos and choose the title of the blog entry you want to associate your photos with in the "Embed album in blog entry?" box.
SINGLE PHOTO UPLOAD
If you choose to upload a SINGLE photo be careful when you copy and paste the code for your single photo upload in to your blog entry. If you miss a bracket (<), that will break the image code and your photo will not appear. You can upload as many single photos as you'd like for your blog entry, just upload each photo and paste each photo's code in to the blog entry.
PHOTO WON'T UPLOAD and/or CAN'T SEE PHOTO
Check your photo's file name. You can NOT use apostrophes or spaces in photo file name. Also, keep your file names to less than 10 characters. Longer than that might cause the system problems.
Another issue with uploading photos to the site is that sometimes images larger than 1MB may cause the server to time-out. If you are trying to upload several photos larger than 1MB, this is likely to happen. To avoid this issue, check out download.com for freeware to resize your images so they are smaller (Fast Stone is pretty easy to use).
HAVE A QUESTION?
If you have trouble with uploading your photos and the above tips aren't helping you, post a comment below and we'll troubleshoot the issue for you.
-Wendy
ADDING PHOTOS TO BLOG ENTRY
When you make a blog entry, you can choose to "post entry and add photos" to add photos directly to your blog (an album or a single photo). The screen will darken and a box will appear asking if you wan tto "add a single photo" or "embed an album." If this box does NOT appear then simply click on the screen and save your blog entry. To add a photo to that blog entry go to "post photos", upload your photos and choose the title of the blog entry you want to associate your photos with in the "Embed album in blog entry?" box.
SINGLE PHOTO UPLOAD
If you choose to upload a SINGLE photo be careful when you copy and paste the code for your single photo upload in to your blog entry. If you miss a bracket (<), that will break the image code and your photo will not appear. You can upload as many single photos as you'd like for your blog entry, just upload each photo and paste each photo's code in to the blog entry.
PHOTO WON'T UPLOAD and/or CAN'T SEE PHOTO
Check your photo's file name. You can NOT use apostrophes or spaces in photo file name. Also, keep your file names to less than 10 characters. Longer than that might cause the system problems.
Another issue with uploading photos to the site is that sometimes images larger than 1MB may cause the server to time-out. If you are trying to upload several photos larger than 1MB, this is likely to happen. To avoid this issue, check out download.com for freeware to resize your images so they are smaller (Fast Stone is pretty easy to use).
HAVE A QUESTION?
If you have trouble with uploading your photos and the above tips aren't helping you, post a comment below and we'll troubleshoot the issue for you.
-Wendy
MannerlyMutt says,
I think with my security, it stumps the tool you can use in that it freezes once you answer "okay got it". But then I just hit the back button, edit my blogs, and then insert the code afterwards.
Otherwise, I will use typepad or frontpage to give me the html code, and do it that way as well (pictures should obviously be uploaded somewhere on the web).
Photo albumns, I haven't had a problem yet, and are easier to embed into the post.
Jun 3, 2008 12:14 PM
PolloLoco says,
thanks for the feedback Mannerly Mutt. I agree that it is likely your security settings with the code that pops up the box that gives you the photo code. Glad to hear embedding albums isn't a problem.
Jun 9, 2008 10:19 AM
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