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Former Member
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A URL is not secret information. It's like those scaremongering adverts that pop up and say "danger! You're broadcasting your IP address!" Well duh. Of course you are, that's how the Internet works.
And URLs are how the web works. That particular URL is visible any time your signature image is displayed. Further, this particular URL belongs to imageshack, so isn't really anything to do with you at all. So, relax. This particular information isn't secret at all. :-D By the way, anyone can get their own hosting. Most people don't run their hosting on their own computer; they let an ISP handle it for them, in a nice, secure, airconditioned datacentre. |
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Former Member
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 To find the URL of a banner, right-click on the image, then select Properties. As an example, for one of the banners in this thread, this brings up the following: Image Properties Location: http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/3285/atosigbanner9hp.jpg Width: 542px Height: 123px Size of File: 17.87 KB (18301 bytes) Alternate text: Missing You can copy the URL of an image and insert it in your post, then surround it with the IMG tags to display the image itself rather than the URL. But the URL is always available using Properties. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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A URL is not secret information. ...So, relax. This particular information isn't secret at all. :-D By the way, anyone can get their own hosting. Most people don't run their hosting on their own computer; they let an ISP handle it for them, in a nice, secure, airconditioned datacentre. OK. That's fine with me then on leaving the URL open. I know about the web hosting thing. I have a 50-gig site at Go Daddy that has been sitting there for a year--I just renewed it--in hopes that I will someday find the time to put up the nearly 10,000 files I and others have accumulated for Team Liddell et al. I have four different website creation softwares as well--and expect to bypass FrontPage for a British outfit calle Serif. The main thing I've done so far is reserve the name and make sure that I am Web dominant with it. I have a "webservant" (he's a Christian and doesn't want to call himself "master", you see.) and he has learned the optimization routine to the nth degree for getting search engines to notice your site. We split duties and that DNA Study site of ours mentioned above ALWAYS looks good in the search returns. Enough on this. If you have a means of contacting Graham, please ask him to email me (1) the pixel count for width and depth for that stats chart he showed for a while below the ATO sig-banner and then eliminated in one of his posts above and (2) the size of that file. I am keeping the overall file size down as well as the actual visual dimensions. The present sig-banner is about 18Kb, which isn't bad for all that's in it, you know. (I assume Graham can access my email address.) Thanks. Need to leave for a while for basket time. I have another post to answer, as well. Jim Liddell [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 5, 2006 4:55:21 AM] |
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Former Member
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To find the URL of a banner, right-click on the image, then select Properties. As an example, for one of the banners in this thread, this brings up the following: Image Properties Location: http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/3285/atosigbanner9hp.jpg Width: 542px Height: 123px Size of File: 17.87 KB (18301 bytes) Alternate text: Missing You can copy the URL of an image and insert it in your post, then surround it with the IMG tags to display the image itself rather than the URL. But the URL is always available using Properties. Lawrence I still am learning the power of the right button on a mouse. I "grew up" with one-button mouses/mice/whatever and that social finger click still isn't a part of me. Dang--there a Aussie chap in my genetics genealogy group who has a mouse with FIVE buttons as well as the wheel, plus being WiFi and optical. I just gasp at the rapidity of our changing life styles. The Web, itself, has become an International Culture with its own customs and morals and things. I admit that I knew NOTHING of what your post contained. Thank you for taking time to share that with me. Jim Liddell |
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Former Member
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I use our team boinc stats as my sig on other forums:
http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_22327.gif  but your idea is good as well. I have no preference either way. |
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