Thumbnail Images for member IDs

[Garden Manager]

This has probably been covered before, but I have noticed a number of you have your own pictures in thumnail form in your member profile which appears next to your posts.

I have been trying to do the same but without any luck.

What i have done is found an image using Google, saved it to computer, then uploaded it into Hpphoto. I then 'created a link for Auction' and selected thumbnail before copy and pasting the link into the approriate place in profile setup. When I save the changes no image appears, nor do i get a red X in a white box.

Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong. I tried also linking from the source website direct to A4all, but this did not work either.  Please help. (Eric?)    

PS I am using .gif 's not .jpg 's

[Mrs Ava]

That is your problem Richard, they need to be jpg files.  I use www.freepichosting.com, which is fine but as you can see from my pic, if viewed to many times in 28 days, the stick a warning over it.  No big deal really.  I don't know what others use.  Hope this helps ya.

[Dandy_Lion]

Hi DG- why the change in name by the way?
I found that when I was attempting to put my piccy in, I had to tick "no picture" on the pre-existing list as well as putting in the link in the space. I wonder if that might help?
Also, I know there is a whole question and answer conversation on this topic, so maybe you could do a search and find it and then you might be able to work it out from there.
Hope that helps - you know that I am not techie at all!
Sally  

[Garden Manager]

See 'Testing Testing' for further details, but

Thanks to Dany lion for putting me on the right track. Sorry EJ you didnt help me much. But thank you for trying anyway  

[ava_banana]

Richard.......you really will have to brush up on your interpersonal skills.........

[Mrs Ava]

Oh well, I shan't bother trying again then Richard.

[Garden Manager]

EJ and Ava - Sorry if i sounded ungrateful

See amendment above

[tim]

A rose by any other name?

BTW - can't one change the 'denomination' from tif to jpg? = Tim

[ina]

Pictures can be converted by using a program called ACDSee. There is a button called 'convert' and there are many choices there.

You can do all kinds of stuff with pictures on this program.