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Mike_Ottawa
11-17-2005, 04:41 PM
I seem to be having trouble inserting a picture into my message. Any ideas?

http://ca.geocities.com/m.billows@rogers.com/img_1354.jpg

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 05:08 PM
the size of that picture is very large, try resizing it to 640x480

now getting this error The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 05:11 PM
resize your picture and upload it to http://imageshack.us/
post a link to the picture on their server

Marsher
11-17-2005, 05:11 PM
The site you are trying to link to (http://ca.geocities.com/m.billows@rogers.com/img_1354.jpg)
has exceeded it's limit.... see this message

Yahoo! Canada

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Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable!

The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.
Access to this site will be restored within an hour. Please try again later.
http://

If you continue to have trouble, visit our help area for information and assistance.

Mike_Ottawa
11-17-2005, 05:35 PM
Have resized picture down to 640X480. Size is about 65K. Still at same server. Trying things one at a time.

Thanks for your feedback folks!!!


http://ca.geocities.com/m.billows@rogers.com/img_1354.jpg

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 05:51 PM
nope, not resized, here's the properties of your picture

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/5381/screenshot015cr.jpg

picture hosted on imageshack

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 05:55 PM
your geocities server is down and will be for a while.
First, you've posted the picture above twice and it'll try to load it until it's removed, so edit your posts and delete what you've posted.
Then try to upload to image shack and post the link they give you.
They are a free service.

Marsher
11-17-2005, 06:42 PM
the server is up... photo are now showing.

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 07:14 PM
so it is....success :d

Mike_Ottawa
11-17-2005, 07:19 PM
Thanks guys - I guess my images size was preventing me from doing what I want.

Thanks for your help.

dbusguy
11-17-2005, 07:23 PM
Glad we could help....This is what makes TCM great :d