No, this is not Marie, but the webmistress of Australians Abroad
Blogger is having problems, ever since Google took over. There's a real problem with uploading images.

I looked at the code that blogger produces, and at the image files that it uploads. I see two problems and I MAY have a solution. Only way to tell, is to test it.



Ok. But now I'll try another.
I'll also try puting in some new lines here ....










Well that seemed to work. For Melbourne people, you may recognise Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne. As you can see this is a very old photo, of me and my first boyfriend. It was taken 100 year's ago.

So what's going on. How come I have it working?

It's not simple, but it's not too hard either. I DO expect blogger will work properly again, but in the meantime, here's a solution.

I'll demonstrate with a new photo.

I do the upload - no image shows in the preview. Look at the code blogger produced.

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gumnut.com/coolabah/ausblog/marie/uploaded_images/hoboken2-731958.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.gumnut.com/coolabah/ausblog/marie/uploaded_images/hoboken2-727619.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>

Note there are to references to the image - hoboken2-731958.jpg and hoboken2-727619.jpg. One must be the full sized image - the one with the A HREF tag.

The other must be the smaller image.

I look on the server. I download the two images, and hoboken2-731958.jpg - the one in the A HREF tag is a valid graphics (jpg) file. But what of hoboken2-727619.jpg? Painshop Pro will not open it. "Not a supported file type"! And it's only 1K.

Looks like blogger is not producing the smaller image. It's making the file but not making the contents correctly.

So I make both images in the html produced by blogger refer to the non-thumbnail image.


This works, BUT I have no thumbnail.

Of course I can make my own, and upload it. Not convenient, but I'll do it anyway.

It is one of me and my little brother with our mum in Caulfield.

I get the following code produced.

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gumnut.com/coolabah/ausblog/marie/uploaded_images/children.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.gumnut.com/coolabah/ausblog/marie/uploaded_images/children-796715.png" border="0" alt="" />

I check the server to validate what I'm thinking.

Sure enough children-700184.png is a valid png file, but the supposed smaller image - children-796715.png is only a few bytes in size.

Luckily I have ftp'ed my small version alreadty so I change children-796715.png to 'childrens.png'.



That worked. Click on the photo and you'll see a larger version.

It's all a bit of a nuisance. But it is do-able.

Just use blogger as normal. Then ftp a small version of your image to the website hosting your blog. Your site admin should be able to write a small webpage program for you to do this.

Rename the first image in the google code to the name of your own small image, and Bob' your uncle.

And if you don't NEED a thumbnail, just change the second file name to be the same as the first as I am doing HERE!


And now it's back to Marie and something completely different!