I have issues

[jpskewedthrone]

Computer issues. Regarding snerching pics from the internet and using them in my blog posts. I was hoping someone more computer savvy than me could explain what's going wrong.

With my old computer, I'd find the pic I'd want online somewhere, right click on it, save it as a jpg file, upload it to my server, and then refer back to it in my blogs posts with the proper HTML code. Everything worked fine.

With my new computer, when I find the image and right click on it, I no longer get the option to save the pic as a jpg file. To get around that, I've been emailing the pic file to myself, then downloading it as a jpg file. I upload that file to my server, refer to it in my blog posts, and when I view the blog post, I can see the pic just fine. However, numerous people can't it seems. In fact, it seems to have something to do with the browser, since pbray did some testing for me and she could see it when she was logged onto AOL and looking at the blog through there, but not when she was using Explorer.

So, does anyone know what's going on here? I'm assuming that it's something I'm doing to get ahold of the file, since the only options I get when I right click to save it are art files and btmp files. What do I need to do to get the jpg files from the web directly? Any suggestions?

Comments

[deborahkalin.livejournal.com]

ahhh...see, sites like youtube/ichc actually encourage hotlinking by giving you the link you should use. i'd forgotten about that.