DtD: I thought that I'd covered that in this section: "Desirable sizes are either "thumbnails" which some hosting sites provide, or something close to 640 X 480 pixels. "Medium" or "Small" varies from program to program, so don't rely on it. (see corunum/Jane's discussion in the previous thread)." I'll try to make it stronger in the next revision, probably using the 640 X 480 pixels size as a maximum (unless someone has a better suggestion). Of course, these are just recommendations, and people can't be forced to abide by them. I don't want to make the process onerous, I'd rather someone just get a photo posted for the first time even if it's really big, and then the next ones can be posted in a more suitable size. Once they're past that first hurdle of posting they can work on the details. Claire

I have had that happen on a few occasions with various photo sites, you should be able to log into your account there and have access to all of your photos, then you can move them yourself if you choose to. I usually just let them do the moving for me to the new site, however you need to read the fine print because most of those now require you to purchase from them at least once a year to keep your stuff on their site, I usually just order a couple of prints for a buck or so but it is something to consider. I no longer have any on those kinds of sites. I do have some on winkflash which does not require any purchase. Most of mine are on imageshack.

These are the specific comments that were posted on the "A new FAQs for Homebuilding Forum! thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by dekeoboe (My Page) on Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 22:05 Claire, can you include information on how to make it a clickable picture? That would help because many times the picture as posted is too small to be able to read the dimensions of the rooms. My response on that thread: dekeoboe: That's a good point, and the needs of the Building Forum are different from the New England Gardening Forum. The gardeners usually want to post pics that show the subject matter clearly, but not necessarily in great detail, and want the pic to fit into the page view without disrupting the text around and after it. This irritates viewers. The building forum, on the other hand, often needs greater detail (to show dimensions, etc.) so the file size and image size can be much bigger. You can always open a large file in one window and then go back to the original page to discuss it. Thumbnails are probably the best option, but you need an album on a webhosting site like Picasa, Photobucket, etc. to provide thumbnails (a thumbnail is a small pic that is clickable and the click directs you to the full-size pic in the album on the hosting site). If you use TinyPic you can't use thumbnails but you can still determine the size of the file during the uploading process. That size will of course be limited by the size of the file on your computer. Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 23:04 In TinyPic the acceptable image file types are: jpg, png, gif, base 64 encoded image, or bmp. The "choose file" button is now labeled "Browse". When you choose "Upload Now" you will have to enter the scrambled code, then you only need to click once on the top code (labeled "HTML for websites") and it will automatically be copied to your clipboard so you can paste it. My response here: I've incorporated most of these comments in the above text, except that I still see "Choose File" on the TinyPic.com site, not "Browse". Claire

If she already has the photos organized in albums/folders the way she likes them, she could just cut and paste from one drive to the other. If she's a little disorganized, she could set up a number of new folders on the external drive so that it would be easy in the future to better locate what she wanted. Alternatively, and especially if she isn't very organized, or wants to manage things in one system, she could download the free and powerful photo organizing and editing software from Google called Picasa. Here is a link to a video to show you what Picasa can do. Here is a link that might be useful: Picasa demo