Are You Being Censored?

Nice picture, shame about the Porsche 928s in the foreground !!:)

Dumb Machines

The directory of the ‘censor’ will prevent the offending words appearing in either singular or plural form. However it can be overridden to allow the words in other formats.

Our esteemed editors can insert the names of Bent waters and others as individual names or they can allow those offending words as long as (a given number of) consonants and vowels are strung with it.

As the note below states – just email them.

Tim.

There you go.

Mark
I thought I had shrunk the pic to 18kb, but it was 181kb ! so that could be the prob. Here goes at 20kb

Flat 12×2

OK so it has not worked.

Run the cursor over the image in the ‘Transit pic’ folder and it will give you the file size. With the current problems on the forum, and acknowledged by the Webmaster, if the file size is above say 29 Kb it will not post.

With the reduced for email image in your ‘transit pic’ folder and depending on your photo software, you can crop some image away and/or reduce the dimensions of the image to achieve a modest reduction in file size to below 30 Kb.

Good luck.

Mark

RobAnt
yes your right, I could just save it, I’m not very good on the PC & tend to carry on doing thing in a way that I know works ! I’ve downloaded the updated software (thanks for the info), but I cant get it to install, told you I’m no good !

Mark12
Thats what I did & it has not worked.

Commit the image to email in the image store – ‘My Pictures’ etc.. Select the reduced image request. With the email on screen select ‘save attachment(s)’ and save in a new folder such as ‘transit pix’. Then access ‘transit pix’ through the forum Browse button and you have posted at low res.

Hope this helps some. It works for me.

Mark

I send the pic to myself by email

I would imagine Canon’s Zoombrowser software will allow you to simply save the shrunken picture file under a new name, and/or in a new place, without you having to send it to yourself by email. You should be able to cut that part of the job out.

If you don’t already have it, here’s a link to the latest version.

hmmm my post disappeared – but it said essentially the same thing as the webmasters, above. Probably a glitch.

Anyway, if you use the img tag, you can even change the pictures – so confusing everyone, if you want!!!!

😉

The reason why some place names and person names have ** in them is part of the wrod contains a text string that is on the bad word list.

It is possible for us to tweak the bad word filter to a certain extenet, if you email us at [email]webmaster@keypublishing.com[/email] with the words that get censored we will try out best.

As with regards to some people not being able to post images, this is due to the free space on our current web server and not due to any censorship. This issue will be addressed when we move web servers, all I can do is ask you to bare with us, as we are aware of the problem and it is on the “Things to do List”

Kind Regards

WebMaster

3rd time lucky ?

Ok,Ok so wheres the pic. ? its only 18kb so should be ok isnt it ?

I’ve just learnt to post pics on another forum, I use Cannons basic zoombrowser pic. software, to reduce in size I send the pic to myself by email, then save in ‘my pictures’, then use ‘attach file’ in post reply on this forum (same as my other forum) I use ‘browse’ to look for the pic I have saved in ‘my pictures’, & simply click on that pic. & its done .
Well I hope so ! So heres my first pic. on this forum. maybe !

Cheers for that Snapper. I wasn’t aware of the problem. Sometimes to many posts come up at the same time & I don’t get chance to read them all.

All the best,
Neilly

Neilly, YOU CAN POST THEM.

Just shrink to around 30kb or less and they’ll go in. There’s no conspiracy, it’s just a problem with the forum. We’ve discussed it before, and Webmaster is well aware of it – but hasn’t been able to resolve it yet.

Hi Rob,

Thanks for all the info. However, for some reason NTLWorld won’t let me into ftp. My eldest son is back from Uni. next week, dso he can have a look.

I would still like to know WHY we can’t post piccies, on the Forum!:mad: Come on WebMaster, sort it or tell us what we’re doing wrong!!!

Cheers,
Neilly

How to upload pictures

How to upload pictures to the Webspace provided by your ISP & making them visible on a bulletin board.

ISPs typically allow between 5 and 30 megabytes of webspace for you to store files that an be accessed on the Internet. The most popular usage for this webspace is a place where you can store your own personal Website.

My ISP, for instance, is Telewest/Blueyonder and I will use that as a basis for my description, but others are very similar. Blueyonder allow me to store 30mb of files on my webspace, which means I have more than enough for my website and plenty spare for storing picture files – most of which I link to on my website, as well as making them visible on bulletin boards such as this.

I will concentrate by using the easiest and most freely available tool – which almost everyone has if they are using a modern Windows computer with Internet Explorer 5 or 6.

IE5 & 6 can be used not only to VIEW websites, but to actually upload and download files from webspace, by way of the File Transfer Protocol. I’m not going to go into a full description of what this is, except to say that is usually shortened to FTP.

My webspace is normally addressed as http://www.ramms.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. As there is an index html file there Internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, automatically pick that up as a page that can be interpreted and shown fully formatted. However, if there is no index (or other default) html file there you would probably be presented with a view showing all the files and folders listed instead – just as if you were using “My Computer” or Windows Explorer.

Now, change, http:// to ftp:// and you are asked to provide a login name and password. This is so that you can perform administration on the webspace, such as adding and deleting files.

You should already know your username and password – they are usually the same as the one you use to log on to the internet, but they might be different, so you will have to ask your ISP for the details. You might have them in an email or letter you received from your ISP. Or, in some circumstances, you might need to open a webspace account.

Simply enter the Username & password and you are presented with a folder/file view of the space that is available to you. And you can do simple things such as create a new folder in the same way you do it on your computer – right click, or file new, etc.

It is then, a simple matter to copy files into “the root” or any folder your like.

So say you copy pic001.jpg from your hard drive to your webspace into a folder called images. That picture is then available for you to link to on either your own website, or anywhere else on the internet. How?

The address for pic001.jpg (in my case) is http://www.ramms.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pic001.jpg

Now using the img tool on this website I can link straight to it so that it is displayed here:

The easiest way to do this is to open a new browser, and navigate to (or type in the address bar) http://www.yourwebspace/images/yourpic.jpg (obviously you have to adjust this to read as it should – in my case http://www.ramms.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pic001.jpg) – the picture will be displayed in the new browser (if you’ve got the address right).

Highlight the entire contents of the address bar of the browser with the picture in it, right click and select copy (this will put the address into the cut&paste buffer).

So you’ll have two browers open – one with the picture and another to this forum. Now switch focus to the browser with the Forum in it.

All you have to do is post a reply, or create a new thread – whatever, just so long as you are in message create mode. If you wish, type your message, and wherever you want your picture, hit the IMG button, just above the box where you type your message in.

This brings up a little pop-up box – all you have to do is paste the address into that pop-up box and hit the OK button. Make sure you only have one http:// – one already exists by default, and you can accidentally end up with http://http://….etc… which won’t work.

When you post the message, the picture will appear where the resulting code appears.

The great thing about this technique is that you can put several images in the same post, and you aren’t limited to 35kb images. The images can be as high a resolution as you like – but do be aware that many people don’t have broadband, so the smaller the picture in terms of size and/or resolution, the better.

Here it is: –

Neilly – okay, I’ll edit this post a little later with a full explanation – or better still a link to an ISP which has already done a description on how to upload files to webspace, and a modification for this page.

If you let me know who your ISP is, maybe I can use their descriptions (modified) for you.

I just live but a handful of miles from B E N T W A T E R S which is now called Rendlesham (non airfield) and Rendlesham Park (Airfield) but that is still a long way from S C U N T H O R P E !

Hi Rob,

Your picture looks great, the explanation sounded good, too. Now tell us in English how you post a picture ( for those of us who are computer illerates!).

Cheers,
Neilly