Most excellent news: Bonnie at Reading, Writing and Ranting was having trouble viewing my site. She was seeing an unformatted page and my host’s hotlinking message in place of images. Reader DoubleU provided a fix. Click “more” to find out what it is. Congratulations, Bonnie!
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Are you seeing black boxes in place of images? I contacted my host, who’s looking into the problem. Hotlinking is disabled, and you’re only supposed to see the boxes on a different site if someone links directly to the image from my site. Images on my own site should be visible. I’m seeing the images OK, and so are many others.
If clearing your cache and refreshing the browser doesn’t work, I’m stumped. My hosts says: “My first response is that it is something on the users side. I have a few ideas that have to do with users blocking the http referrer from being sent from their browsers (security against site tracking etc) which will cause them to see the black images.”
Developing…
Update (5/8): A commenter wrote: “Because Blogger doesn’t host images, and because new bloggers may not yet know how to get that easily accomplished…and given the general spirit of growth re the internet is info (maybe even picture) sharing, might you consider a magnanimous gesture of again opening up your pics for inclusion into smaller blog pages…”
If you want to post pictures on your site from another site, all you need to do is right click on the image and “Save image as.” Save it to your hard drive. You can upload the image from your hard drive to your site. I was on Blogger for about six months, and I uploaded pictures this way all the time. Then again, things may have changed since the last time I used Blogger.
About the black boxes, a commenter has a suggestion: “If you are running a firewall your firewall could be the cause of the problem. I knew this was NOT a cache problem. I tried FireFox, Internet Explorer and Opera browser all with the same problem….If you are using ZoneAlarm, go to the site setting for lashawnbarber.com and turn off “Remove Private Headers Information” under third party cookies. (in the cookies section) For some reason this website is tied to another website for its information. You need to pass your browsing information to a third website for Lashawn’s website to work.”
