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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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If you're having problems including images, here are some things to keep in mind:
1. You must use the [.image] and [./image] tags (minus the periods) before and after your image URL. Or make life easy on yourself and just click the "Image" hyperlink near the bottom of a new post or reply (in the "Instant UBB Code" area).
2. Images from shutterfly DO NOT WORK. They use strange characters in their URLs and they don't include a file extension, which results in display problems. Images on other sites may not work either, for similar reasons.
3. You are welcome to upload your images to our server, where you should have no problems displaying them in your psots or signatures. Complete instructions on how to do this are located here.
What about pictures for trip reports? I have included over 100 images in each report, and I'm assuming you don't want all of those stored here?
I've tested several services similar to Shutterfly, and can't get any of them to work. I'd prefer not to use my personal web site, as that will involve an additional step of creating web pages as well as HTML for each picture posted.
That's a good point. You are welcome to upload them here if you like, but I understand that it would be easier to use a photo service. Sure wish I knew what we could do here. Does anyone have any ideas?
Look into whether you can FTP to your web space. FTP is a simple upload, and you wouldn't have to create a web page or html for your pictures. If you uploaded a file, such as "me-and-mickey.jpg" then you can link to http://yourwebsiteaddress.com/direct...and-mickey.jpg
I'm getting the little red x for the picture in your post
(the one in your signature is showing, though).
Dave, thanks for the tip. I've decided to use the webpage creator included with my package, but it is pretty time consuming to set up. I may try the FTP route.
Also, why is it that the pictures linked from Shutterfly prior to the transfer are showing? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they are, but can't figure out why they are working!
<font color="purple"> It could be that your image is already stored in your cashe, so it will bring it up. But since the rest of us don't have it in our system, we all get the dreaded red x.
I posted something with photos tonight and had to go through the passporter site in order to post the pics rather than link to shutterfly. I was also wondering why old trip reports with shutterfly links still show the photos. Here's a link to my last year's trip report. http://www.passporterboards.com/ubb/...art=1&vc=1 It appears that the photos are showing. How can the old ones still be recognized even with the crazy properties (i.e. no .jpg extension) but new ones can't be added? Just wondering.
Jennifer, I wanted to thank you for the link to www.myimager.com you included in the photo guidelines. I used myimager.com to make my new signature pics and avatar, and it was very easy to use. Now I don't have to worry if my pictures are too large to be in my signature!
If anyone hasn't used myimager.com, Jennifer gives very good directions in the post discussing picture guidelines:
I still can't figure this picture thing out...new to the boards, so I don't even know the "old" way of uploading pictures...
I was posting a note in the TR threads and clicked on "manage images", uploaded the image I wanted; it seems to be stored in my home, but no where does it tell me how to get it attached to the thread I was replying in....
help (and try to keep the technical lingo to a minimun (it's almost midnight here in Ontario)!
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they are, but can't figure out why they are working!
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