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PageBuilder Scrapbook Uploaders If you have a page of images that you provide to others to use, why not put scrapbook uploaders on your webpage so users will be able to easily upload your images. Here are two types of uploader scripts for you to use on your image webpages, or even in your email, to share your images with others. View the source code of this webpage and print out the code for reference to construct your own personalized PageBuilder scrapbook uploader, or C&P the scripts onto your webpage and modify the layout to your personal preferences. But, remember this is only for general-use, free public images that are found all over the internet. If a website offers the images, take them as you like; but, a thank you email to the webmaster would be a nice thought. Do not take any other images, especially images that look like they were personally generated for a specific individual's use! When in doubt about an image, always ask for permission to use it. And, be sure that you have actual or implied permission to share the image with others – just because you are granted permission to use an image, doesn't mean that you can pass it on to others! Some image authors copyright their images, allow free use for non-commercial websites, and desire to keep track of all websites that use their images by asking you that you tell them where you are going to use their image(s). Also, there are image copyright protection services that use software programs that generate embed copyright registration information code that is used by image tracking services to check for copyright and registration infringement on the internet. Don't be caught with a registered image that you do not have permission to use! These image registration and tracking services also persue legal action for damages against violators on behalf of their clients. PageBuilder Webpage Uploaders Here I have two (2) ScrapBook UpLoader scripts that I previously posted in the PageBuilder NG's. Both scripts are HTML forms that use the "post" method for the WebTV PageBuilder scrapbook uploading CGI program. Other scrapbook uploaders use the "get" form method, that I briefly discuss below, that sends a "query" string to the CGI; and email links (<a> tag) that sends the required form "query" information through our email servers to the PageBuilder scrapbook uploader CGI program. After each form below, I show the code here; but, you should view the complete webpage source code, using the source code viewer at the bottom of this webpage. The first uploader form is for using by each individual image on your webpage. Viewers can just click the button to upload the image to their scrapbooks – fast and easy for your image users. Try it: click the addy to see the WebTV Networks, Inc. logo from Draac's full screen, hit your "Back" key, and then upload the image to your scrapbook. Then "View your Scrapbook" to see the image, and delete it if you already have it.
The code I used for this individual uploader is:
<![CDATA[ <div align="center"> <font color="navy"> <h3>WebTV Networks. Inc. Logo</h3> <br> <img src="http://gifs123.tripod.com/wtvlogo.gif"> <br clear="all"> <br>Address: </font> <a href="http://gifs123.tripod.com/wtvlogo.gif">http://gifs123.tripod.com/wtvlogo.gif</a> <br> <br> <font color="navy"> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=http://gifs123.tripod.com/wtvlogo.gif"> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> </plaintext> </font> <br> <br> Here's a text box uploader that you can use to enter any image URL to upload to your scrapbook. Try it with the logo image above.Type, or C&P: <font color="red">gifs123.tripod.com/wtvlogo.gif</font> into the form and upload the WebTV logo to your scrapbook. And then, view your scrapbook to see it; and then delete it if you already have it<br> <br> <div align="center"><font color="navy"> <h3>WebTV PageBuilder ScrapBook UpLoader</h3> </font> <br> <font color="navy"><form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"><input type="text" name="mediaPath" value="http://" bgcolor="skyblue" curser="navy" usestyle size="45" autoactivate nohightlight nohardbreaks nosoftbreaks> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> <input type="reset" value="Clear" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> <br> <br>Here's the code I used for the text box uploader form above:<br> <br> <font color="red"> <plaintext> <div align="center"> <font color="navy"> <h3>WebTV PageBuilder ScrapBook UpLoader</h3> </font> <br> <font color="navy"> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"> <input type="text" name="mediaPath" value="http://" bgcolor="skyblue" curser="navy" usestyle size="65" autoactivate nohighlight nohardbreaks nosoftbreaks> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="reset" value="Clear" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> </plaintext> </font> <br> <br> Full PB webpage page form text box width should be the "65" characters, but for your email signature box and posts you should use a "45-character" text box which is our email/post write screen width. Also note, in the code above you must use a "submit" button instead of the "button" input I used in some scripts on my webpages. Because on my webpage I used javascript to write the text box, and I used the built-in javascript "form.submit()" method with the "onClick" event handler to send the form, because a form "Button" requires an event handler script to submit a form. But in email and posts you must use a regular form submit input because javascript will not work in email or NG posts. Use the form codes here and on my webpage any way you like. Customize the text box bgcolor and font color to your preferences, or rearrange the layout of the form and images. Pass this info along to anyone who asks for help with webpage or email PageBuilder scrapbook uploaders.
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<font color="navy"><u>Email PageBuilder Uploaders</u></font>
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Here's a WebTV PageBuilder ScrapBook Email UpLoader you may use in your email sig. box, or on your webpages. Just type or C&P any image URL, after the "http://" part, into the text box, and click the upload button.<br> <br>
<br> As an example, here I use Draac's "ape.gif" shown below with it's URL. Typically, you would go to the image you want, press your "GoTo" key, press "Show Current," and copy the URL by pressing the "Shift" key and the "Left-Arrow" key until you have "highlighted" the URL up to the "http://" part. Then, Press "Cmd-C" to copy the URL. Then, using "Cmd-V," paste the URL into the text box after the "http://" part and click the upload button.<br> <br> If the URL is listed by the image like the example below, hit your "Find" key and enter the "gif file name," in this case, "ape.gif," then highlight and copy (in reverse) up to the "http://" part, and paste into the text box. Or just type the addy if you're good a remembering long strings of text.<br><br>Note: The image is a clickable link for you to practice using the "Go To" key, "Show current URL" when viewing the image to copy the "Current" URL from right-to-left up to the "http://" part. And, the URL is listed below for you to copy this way (in reverse) also, so you can "paste" the URL into the text box.<br> <br> <div align="center"> <a href="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> <img src="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> </a> <br clear="all"> <br> Address: <font color="navy"><a href="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif">http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif</a></font> <br> <br> <font color="navy"><br>
<form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"> <input type="text" name="mediaPath" value="http://" size="45" bgcolor="skyblue" curser="navy" usestyle nohardbreaks nosoftbreaks> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> <input type="reset" value="Clear" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> <br> <br>Here's the code I used for the image uploader division shown above:<br> <br> <font color="red"> <plaintext> <div align="center"> <a href="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> <img src="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> </a> <br clear="all"> <br>Address: <font color="navy"><a href="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif">http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif</a></font> <br> <br> <font color="navy"> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"> <input type="text" name="mediaPath" value="http://" size="45" bgcolor="skyblue" curser="navy" usestyle nohardbreaks nosoftbreaks> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="reset" value="Clear" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> </plaintext> </font> <br> <br> Here's an individual button email uploader by an image that you may want to use when you have a special image you want to offer others for uploading to their scrapbooks. Again, I use Draac's ape.gif. Click the Image to UpLoad to Your ScrapBook.<br> <br> <div align="center"> <a href="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> <img src="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> </a> <br clear="all"> <br> <font color="navy"> <b> <i> <u>Click the Image to UpLoad to Your ScrapBook</u> </i> </b> </font> </div> <br> <br>Here's the code I used for the email uplader above:<br> <br> <font color="red"> <plaintext> <div align="center"> <a href="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> <img src="http://gifs123.tripod.com/ape.gif"> </a> <br clear="all"> <br> <font color="navy"> <b> <i> <u>Click the Image to UpLoad to Your ScrapBook </u> </i> </b> </font> </div> </plaintext> </font> <br> <br>Note: Check out Draac's <a href="http://www.draac.com/webtvuploader.html">WebTV PageBuilder UpLoader</a> to read Draac's PageBuilder uploading instructions. And you can practice with Draac's "ape.gif" like I have you do here.<br>
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You can customize the layout and color of the forms to suite your personal preferences. View the source code of this webpage to see the complete webpage code.
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<font color="navy"><u>Additional Explainations</u></font>
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The scrapbook uploaders in my posts above all use the form "post" method. The post method just submits the form with all the input values and controls to the form CGI program for interpretation and execution of the form's purpose and required response. The post method is best used for complex multi-part forms. The post method can handle any known form function.<br>
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The form "get" method is for short "querys" with smaller, simple forms that basically ask the form CGI program for a response. The get method simply appends a "question mark" (?) query to the form "action statement" and adds the text box input into a query string for the form CGI program.<br>
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The WebTV scrapbook uploader query string used in forms, is:<br>
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<font color="red"> action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=<a href="http://URL_of_image_file">http://URL_of_image_file</a>(.gif_or_.jpg)" </font><br>
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and for email, is: <br>
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<font color="red"> <a href="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=<a href="http://URL_of_image_file">http://URL_of_image_file</a>(.gif_or_.jpg)">Link_text_here</a>.</font> <br>
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With the form post method, you use: <br>
<font color="red">action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"</font> then use an input text box named <font color="red">"mediaPath"</font> with a value of <font color="red">"http://"</font> to enter the image URL and complete the required action input string noted above for forms.<br>
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But, if you use the form "get" method, you must remove the question mark after scrapbook in your query string because the get method appends the question mark after the action attribute value; so, with the get method your action attribute value would be:<br>
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<fontcolor="red">action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook"</font> then an input text box named <font color="red">"mediaPath"</font> with a value of <font color="red">"http://"</font> is used for the URL entry to complete the action query string noted above.<br>
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Many scrapbook uploaders that just have a text box for entering the image URL uses this "get" form method. Draac's uploader uses this method. This method works fine with WebTV because of our "Go To" keys. We can go to an image and then use the "Go To" key to "Show current" to get the image URL to C&P into the uploader text box; or go from the image to the uploader and use the "Go To" key to "Show last" to C&P the image URL into the uploader text box.<br>
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<u>JAVASCRIPT UPLOADERS</u><br>
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Some uploaders automatically write the image URL value to the text box for you if you just came to the uploader from viewing the image. These uploader scripts use a javascript <font color="red">"document.write"</font> method (built-in our browser's javascript interpreters) to write the text box with the javascript <font color="red">"history.previous"</font> property that causes our browsers to display our last URL visit (at the image), which is the same value (URL) stored in in our "Go to" panel "Show last" option.<br>
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These uploaders use a short script like this to write the <font color="red">"mediaPath"</font> text box:<br>
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<font color="red"> <plaintext> <script> document.write('<input type="text" name="mediaPath" value='+history.previous+' bgcolor="white" curser="black" size="60" selected autoactivate nohighlight usestyle>'); </script> </plaintext> </font><br>
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This is the only time when you need to use the javascript "document.write()" method to write the text box – when you need to use the "history.previous" function to automatically enter the image URL data, actually the "Last visited" webpage whether it's an image or regular text and image webpage, into the uploader text box. And, this form only works correctly, to upload an image, if you know to visit (view) the image first and then go directly to the uploader text box area, otherwise you get some other value placed in the text box.<br>
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Note: Everytime you visit your webpage with this type of uploader, you previous visited URL will show in the upoader text box, whether it's an image page or text page. Also, if you just came from PageBuilder editing, or other pages in your user name, or WebTV NG's, etc, behind the WebTV firewall, you will see a value of "hidden" in the text field. And, don't worry if you inadvertently click the "UpLoad" button when a text webpage is shown in the uploader text box, nothing will happen, except that you will get the alert saying: "PageBuilder was unable to find an image at ... ", if you push the "Continue" button. The UpLoader program will only accept "gif" or "jpg" image files – so don't bother trying to upload "mid" or "swf" files with the uploader.<br>
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<a name="OptiMod"></a>Note: You can upload ".swf" files to your WebTV scrapbook if you change the file extension to ".gif" and save it in your file manager/editor for access by a WTV scrapbook uploader. This trick was first posted in Beth Candy's PageBuilder Public Club NG on Tue, Feb 6, 2001, by SLAN, aka <a href="mailto:SPACEBEAGLE@webtv.net">SPACEBEAGLE@webtv.net</a>; and was posted most recently in the <a href="news:alt.pagebuilder.help">news:alt.pagebuilder.help</a> by <a href="mailto:OptiMod@webtv.net">OptiMod@webtv.net</a> on Thur, Jul 12, 2001. OptiMod was the first to post a "true" converted flash file, containing a sound track synchronized with the flash image, uploaded to a WebTV PageBuilder scrapbook. SLAN's flash image did not include a sound file – it was basically, and could have been replaced by, an animated .gif file. Why use a Flash image (.swf file) if you aren't going to add both background and synchronized sound to the image – that's the purpose of the Flash image editor. Good work, OptiMod, there's great possibilities here; but, as we all know Flash files are huge, and may eat up a large chunk of our PageBuilder memory! I added SLAN's and OptiMod's <a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/jaxred/images/">flash images</a> to my scrapbook. <br>
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Here's an example of a WebTV PageBulder UpLoader which uploads an image you "last visited" using the javascript "history.previous" property to automatically "document.write()" an image URL into the UpLoader form input text box. To use this form, you first "Go To" the desired image on the web, then go directly to your uploader form. The URL of your image (last visited) will automatically appear in the uploader form input text box. Click the "UpLoad" button and follow the prompts to save the image to your scrapbook. You can also erase the text in the uploader form text box and enter any image URL to upload to your scrapbook.<br>
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Note: Also, remember: when you're at your image on the web, you can use the "Go To" key to "Copy" (Cmd-C) the "current" (click "Show current" on the "Go To" panel) URL of the image; then go to your uploader, erase the "http://" and "Paste" (Cmd-V) the image URL into the form input text box. Click the "UpLoad" button and follow the prompts to upload the image to your scrapbook. Do this when the WebTV PageBuilder UpLoader servers pop-up and alert saying: "WebTV ran into a technical problem. Please try again" and the uploader should work. There appears to be some occasionally occurring javascript bugs in the uploader program when this script is used.<br>
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<div align="center"> <h3>WebTV Scrapbook UpLoader</h3> <br> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"> <script language="javascript"> document.write('<input type="text" name="mediaPath" value='+history.previous+' size="65" text="#000080" curser="red" bgcolor="#bbffbb" selected autoactivate nohighlight usestyle>'); </script> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad This Image To Your WebTV PageBuilder Scrapbook"> </form> <br> <br> <div align="left"> <u>Instructions:</u> Go to your image on the web, and then go directly to this uploader. Your image URL will automatically appear in in the form input text box above. Click the "UpLoad" button and follow the prompts to upload the image to your scrapbook. You can also erase the text box entry and either type or C&P (as explained above) the URL of an image you desire to upload.</div> </div><br>
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Here's the code I used for the uploader above:<br>
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<font color="red"> <plaintext> <div align="center"> <h3>WebTV Scrapbook UpLoader</h3> <br> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?"> <script language="javascript"> document.write('<input type="text" name="mediaPath" value='+history.previous+' size="65" text="#000080" curser="red" bgcolor="#bbffbb" selected autoactivate nohighlight usestyle>'); </script> <br> <br> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad This Image To Your WebTV PageBuilder Scrapbook"> </form> <br> <br> <div align="left"> <u>Instructions:</u> Go to your image on the web, and then go directly to this uploader. Your image URL will automatically appear in in the form input text box above. Click the "UpLoad" button and follow the prompts to upload the image to your scrapbook. You can also erase the text box entry and either type or C&P (as explained above) the URL of an image you desire to upload.</div> </div> </plaintext> </font><br>
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Note: Pay particular attention to how I nested the quotes in the "document.write()" statement. I enclosed the HTML tags in single quotes with the attributes, as standard practice, enclosed in double quotes. The "history.previous" property value appears to be enclosed in single quotes, but that's not the case – javascript properties are never enclosed in quotes in statements, and always appear with beginning and trailing "plus" signs (+). The single quotes that appear to be around the property actually terminate the single quotes on each side of the property. Always be sure your quotes are used and nested correctly – one little out-of-place quote may kill your scripts.<br>
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However, if you have trouble with quotes in the above script, you can write the statement with double quotes around the HTML, with no quotes around the attribute values. The "document.write()" statement above can be written with only double quotes, like this:<br>
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<font color="red">document.write("<input type=text name=mediaPath value="+history.previous+" size=65 text=000080 curser=red bgcolor=bbffbb selected autoactivate nohighlight usestyle>"). </font> <br>
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Use the code anyway you like for your own PageBuilder Scrapbook UpLoader. Customize the form layout. Change the text, curser and background colors; and position the form elements anyway you prefer.<br>
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<u>USING YOUR PAGEBUILDER REDIRECT URL</u><br>
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Now here's an answer to a scrapbook uploading problem that has plagued us ever since PageBuilder was released in summer '99. When uploading images between your WebTV terminal's user accounts, other primary user accounts, or at several online transloaders, you may regularly get an alert pop-up that says: "PageBuilder could not find an image at " "; which has been a perplexing problem for most of us. When you encounter this problem, you must enter your PageBuilder user account "redirect" URL into the transloader URL text box, or use your"redirect" URL in your webpage or email uploader codes as explained here.<br>
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All PageBuilder user accounts have unique "redirect" URL's that are hidden from us when we view our webpage URL's in our PageBuilder "Change your webpage" editing page, or use our "Info" keys to check our webpage URL's. Our PageBuilder user account "redirect" URL's can be obtained from WebTV tech staff; but, this is a big hassel most of the time; or you can obtain your "redirect" URL from a very few online webpage validators.<br>
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Note: You will also get an alert pop-up that says: "The publisher refuses to give you access to the requested webpage," when you try to click on an image link that is on one of your own PageBuilder account webpages that you are viewing. No problem here, that's as it should be! Access protocol should not allow you to click a link on an image to come back to the same image you are viewing – that redundancy is, and always should be, not allowed by access protocol.<br>
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As an example of the use of your WebTV PageBuilder user account "redirect" URL, here's the correct URL code syntax for the image URL's that I use on the backgrounds image webpage noted below. As an example: "<a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/Bkgnds1/scrapbookFiles/importD5.gif">http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/Bkgnds1/scrapbookFiles/importD5.gif</a>" – which is the same as the URL of the image on the web; but also contains my PageBuilder user account server file "redirect" URL, which is shown as: <font color="red">"@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA"</font> – which I had to put in my uploader codes for each image to allow uploading between WebTV user accounts, including other primary user accounts. This is because of the required file access protocol used by WebTV for accessing our user account files behind the WebTV corporate firewall and the WWW webpage servers.<br>
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Here's an example using an image from my scrapbook. Notice that you can view the image at the addy given, but cannot upload the image to your scrapbook unless you enter my PageBuilder webpage redirect number. Try it with and without the redirect number.<br>
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<div align="center"><font color="navy"><h3>WebTV Mail Box Icon</h3></font><br><img src="http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif"> <br clear="all"><br>Address: <a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif">http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif</a><br> <br> <font color="navy"> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif"> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle></form></font></div><br><br>The code I used for this individual uploader is:<br><br><font color="red"><plaintext> <div align="center"> <font color="navy"> <h3>WebTV Mail Box Icon</h3> </font> <br> <img src="http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif"> <br clear="all"> <br>Address: <a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif">http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif</a><br> <br> <font color="navy"> <form method="post" action="wtv-tricks:/add-to-scrapbook?mediaPath=http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!51!D1!76A4699ED2EA/jaxred/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif"> <input type="submit" value="UpLoad to ScrapBook" usestyle> </form> </font> </div> </plaintext> </font><br>
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This problem is hard to understand because WebTV's access protocol should not be so restrictive between the webtv.net domain, individual WebTV user accounts, separate WebTV primary user accounts, and our WebTV PageBuilder webpage servers as the access restrictions should be from other domains to WebTV! But, we also need to consider the fact that bandwidth cost is a major factor in webserver operational costs, which must be kept as low as possible so we won't be faced with increased subscription rates. And also, maybe, WebTV's email and webpage to scrapbook image linking procedure is also matter of maintaining a more stricter security between our scrapbooks and the web? <br>
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But, I just don't understand why WebTV makes it so difficult to access and upload between primary account and individual user names, and other WebTV primary accounts and users – these should be all behind the corporate firewall between WebTV subscribers and box users – why such problems? WebTV PageBuilders would never have had any problems uploading between users, if WebTV PageBuilder help staff would have thoroughly explained, in the PageBuilder instruction help pages, the procedure outlined here, and as explained in the webpages of the many PageBuilder experts who have showed us how to link to scrapbook images for email and webpages!<br>
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Perhaps the next upgrade to our PageBuilder program will correct the problems noted above and make it easier to upload images between individual users. All PageBuilders who have experienced these problems should request that WebTV PageBuilder staff correct these problems in the next PageBuilder program upgrade. Use the "Upgrade Suggestion Feature" at the WebTV Help Center. <br>
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<u>GET ALL YOUR USERS WEBPAGE REDIRECT NUMBERS</u><br>
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You can get your "redirect" URL's from an online webpage validator. The only webpage validator I know that shows the "redirect" URL with the webpage source code, is my Jacksonville, FL hometown neighbors Addy and Assocates, Inc. validator, located at: <a href="http://watson.addy.com/">http://watson.addy.com/</a>. You need to use their "Dr. Watson 4.0" validator to validate one webpage from each of your WebTV user accounts so you will know the "redirect" URL's of all your user accounts.<br>
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My personal thanks to my friend Watcher V, aka <a href="mailto:Watchman5@webtv.net">Watchman5@webtv.net</a>, who's heads-up thinking that the "redirect" URL revealed by the Watson validator may be the answer to our uploader problems posted in the PageBuilder NG's. Watcher V posted this solution outlined above as a response to my problem described in a post thread in Beth Candy's PageBuilder NG. Watcher V also put up a PageBuilder website which clearly and explicitly explains this procedure.Check out Watcher V's website, at: <a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/Watchman5/plaintextrulz/page5.html">http://community-2.webtv.net/Watchman5/plaintextrulz/page5.html</a>. Thanks, Watcher V, for your help; all PageBuilders owe you one, Pal!<br>
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Note: I added a more thorough explaination of this information to my "Bkgnds1" image tools webpage noted below.<br>
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If you take the time to understand and use the scripts I have here, or from the tutorials of many expert PageBuilders, you should be able to add an uploader to your webpages and email sig, box. Just be careful, especially when you C&P the codes, to use the correct HTML syntax; ie, remove all extra spaces between HTML tag attributes – one-space only allowed between attributes and no spaces between opening and closing HTML angle brackets (< >), quote (" ") all attribute values, be sure URL's are not broken with spaces when wrapped, verify the exact capitalization syntax in all your URL's, and never add any "hard returns" ("Return" key) when entering code in a PageBuilder editor text box – always use single spaces and allow your code to "auto-wrap" by typing the code and required spaces in a continous line.<br>
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Check my background image webpage, view, and copy the source code for the uploader and image URL scripts, and use the tools any way you like. I have several examples of using the "Redirect URL" in uploader codes on this webpage as explained above.<br> <p align="center"><br>
<a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/jaxred/Bkgnds1/">http://community-2.webtv.net/jaxred/Bkgnds1/</a>
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<u>Please Use Webscissors for Uploading!</u>
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<a name="Jos"></a>Whenever you use a commercial outside uploader to upload images to your WebTV PageBuilder Scrapbook, please consider using Jos Claerbout's "Webscissors" uploader, at: <a href="http://www.webscissors.com/">http://www.webscissors.com/</a>.<br>
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Jos was a well known, highly respected WebTV tech who wrote many helpful articles at the WebTV Developer website. Jos passed away at an early age due to an undiagnosed medical problem. Jos left an extensive legacy of WebTV Technical writings highly appreciated and respected by his peers for technical excellence! <br>
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One of Jos's most helpful WebTV tools was his dedicated effort, in his spare time, to create the Webscissors WebTV PageBuilder Scrapbook Uploader shortly after the WebTV PageBuilder program was released. But, WebTV PageBuilder technical staff refused to support Jos's uploader program for WebTV PageBuilder, and WebTV legal staff actually disassociated WebTV from any liability for Webscissors. Undaunted, Jos continued to develop Webscissors into a viable product and used his own money to get it up and running on a website. Today, several friends of Jos and his family maintains and supports Webscissors to continue Jos's legacy of dedicated service to WebTV users.<br>
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So, please folks, use Webscissors whenever you can. Let's all keep that Webscissors website counter climbing! Anytime you see an image to upload to your PageBuilder Scrapbook, hit your "Go To" key, type in "webscissors," and hit "Return." At the Webscissors website, highlight and click-on "Show Last URL Visited." Select the images you want uploaded to your scrapbook and follow the prompts. Visit any image website, then go directly to Webscissors and click "Show last URL visited" to see all the images on the webpage. Click your choice of images and follow the prompts to upload the images to your webpage. You can click several images in succession to upload the images you want from the website.<br>
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To show the versatility of WebScissors, go to a large image webpage and then go directly to WebScissors and click on "Show last URL visited." You will see ALL the images on the webpage. Select several images of your choice in succession to upload to your scrapbook. As an example, go to Google's new <a href="http://images.google.com">Image Search</a> engine, and type "WebTV" in the search text box. You will get over 10 pages of WebTV specific images, logos, etc. Take each image page to WebScissors and download the images you want.<hr><br>Thanks for visiting my webpage, folks! My best wishes to you, your families, and friends! </TD></TR></TABLE>
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