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Obtaining Scrapbook Images' URLs


Short version


You can't transfer / transload / upload images directly to your e-mail signature area or a webpage; you have to store them in the scrapbook first, and once the images are in the scrapbook, they still do not have urls.

In order to obtain urls for scrapbook images, you need to:

  1. Store the images in your Webtv PageBuilder Scrapbook area first.
  2. Add them to any Webtv PageBuilder page (create a new page just for image storage or use an existing page to add the image).
  3. "Publish" the page.
  4. Then the images will have a useable url for the image to show up in your e-mail signature area or on a webpage and the urls will be in the form of:

    5. http://community.webtv.net/account_name/
    name_of_published_page/scrapbookFiles/
    name_of_image

  5. The url is valid only as long as the image remains on that separate page-----if you delete the originally-added image, the url will no longer work.



Details below:

1. Store the images in your Webtv PageBuilder Scrapbook area first

2. Add them to any Webtv PageBuilder page (create a new page just for image storage or use an existing page to add the image)
  • Go to "Home"
  • Choose "Community"
  • Choose "Page Builder"
  • From the index area, "create a page" just for storing images
    or click onto an existing page and use "change a page"
  • Then "add an item", choose "picture", choose "your scrapbook"
  • Highlight and click onto the image you want to add to your webpage

    (Click onto "view the image" during this process
    and obtain the name of it)

    The filename should be something like:
    importD1_gif

    Use a period ( . ) instead of an underscore ( _ ):
    importD1.gif  

    then press "done" to add it to your webpage.
3. Publish the page (remember the name of the page)

4. The url for the image can now be used for e-mails or other webpages, etc, with regular Html codes and the url will be in the form of:

http://community.webtv.net/account_name/
name_of_published_page/scrapbookFiles/
name_of_image

5. The url is valid only as long as the image remains on that separate page-----if you delete the originally-added image, the url will no longer work.



Using my area as an example below:


The main url is :
http://community.webtv.net

Add the following to the main url
to obtain the url of an image:
1. Add the account name:/Pwilliamandx
2. Add the name of the
   "published" webpage
    the image was added to:		/images
3. Add the word:/scrapbookFiles
4. Add the name of the image:/importD1.gif
So the url for the image below is:

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images
/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif




After the image is added to a webtv page, and the page is published, another way of finding the url of the image is to take the webpage the image is on to

Domania Source Viewer and URL Extractor
http://source.domania.net/

OR

The Expert-Html Source Viewer, etc.
http://source.expert-html.net/


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Examples of scrapbook images' urls in chart form:
http://www.geocities.com/willxwill/webtvurls.html
and examples in posted image form:
http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/


Note: As of August 1999, there is a great debate raging whether the correct url for images and webpages contains a -1 (or -2, etc) after community or not.

http://community.webtv.net/accountname
or
http://community-1.webtv.net/accountname

If one form does not work for you, try the other.

Images show up more consistently without the -1 or -2 in the urls.



Long Version
of
Obtaining Scrapbook Images' URLs


The way to use webtv's method of posting the scrapbook images to a webpage you have created is

  1. While creating a new page, or editing/changing an existing page
  2. Choose "add an item"
  3. then choose "picture"
  4. then choose "your scrapbook"
  5. then highlight and click onto an image
  6. then type in a title and /or caption
  7. then press "done" to add it to the webpage

A limitation of webtv's method of posting images from the scrapbook is that sizes and positioning of the images cannot be controlled. In order to use regular html to manipulate the images, urls must be obtained for the images in the scrapbook.

To obtain useable urls for the images in the scrapbook, a webtv glitch ( intentional ??) makes it necessary to actually add the images onto a webtv webpage using their method first.

Once the image is added to a webtv page, and the page is published/updated/or republished, and the image is visible on the page, then it's useable url will be in the form of

http://community.webtv.net/account_name/
name_of_published_page/scrapbookFiles/
name_of_image


Such as

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD0.gif

And then the url can be used with regular html codes and it can also be transloaded to another website using Domania freeloaders or other transloaders.

The url is valid only as long as the image remains on that separate page-----if you delete the originally-added image, the url will be null and void.


Note: As of August 1999, there is a great debate raging whether the correct url for images and webpages contains a -1 ( or -2, etc) after community or not.
http://community.webtv.net/accountname
or
http://community-1.webtv.net/accountname

If one form does not work for you, try the other.

Images show up more consistently without the -1 or -2 in the urls.



There are also several other ways to obtain the filenames of the images in the scrapbook:
  • Access the Scrapbook from the sidebar link when you first come to the Pagebuilder Index page.

    1. Then click onto "Scrapbook", highlight each image, then press the Cmd and Ctrl keys at the same time and the file names will be displayed, with the "scrapbookFiles" portion added, such as

      scrapbookFiles/importD0_jpg
      (use scrapbookFiles/importD0.jpg instead)


    2. Or click onto "Scrapbook", then highlight and click onto each image and when the image is displayed, the names will be displayed too, in the format of

      importD0_jpg
      (use importD0.jpg instead)



Note: if you use the "next page" feature of webtv pagebuilder, a typical url for the page will be:

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/page2.html

DO NOT USE THE page2.html in the images' urls

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/page2.html/scrapbookFiles/importD3.jpg

Use only the main name of the page in the images' urls:
http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD3.jpg



I posted some images to a page titled   images  
Examples of their urls are below:

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD0.gif

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/mailedD0.jpg

Now the images can be used anywhere with the standard html tags, such as:




<<>img src="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD1.gif" width=200 align="right">



and

<<>a href="url of destination">
<<>img src="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images2/scrapbookFiles/importD2.gif" width="50" align="left"><<>/a>





Setting up a scrapbook image webpage


  1. Choose "home"
  2. Choose "community"
  3. Choose "pagebuilder"
  4. Choose "create a page"
  5. Choose "choose a page style"
  6. Choose "add an item"
  7. Choose "picture"
  8. Choose "your scrapbook"
  9. Then highlight and click onto an image
  10. Choose "view the image" and write down the file name

    It should be something like this:
    importD1_jpg

    but substitute a period before the jpg or gif,
    and do not use the _ they insert.

    Use this format instead:
    importD1.jpg

  11. Press "back"
  12. Choose "done" (to post the image to the page)
  13. Then repeat adding items/pictures ( 6 - 12 )
  14. Choose "publish"
  15. Type in page title
  16. Type in page description
  17. Choose "continue"
  18. Choose "publish"
  19. Congratulations screen appears and press "done"

And then anything posted on that image page has a url and can be used elsewhere. Please note that you do not have to create a separate page just for posting images, I just find it more convenient to have one base url for the images.

Once the image is posted to any webtv page, it's useable url will be in the form of

http://community.webtv.net/account_name/
name_of_published_page/scrapbookFiles/
name_of_image




(If you use the "next page" feature of the pagebuilder, do not add the additional page#.html to the images' urls, such as ----

http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/page2.html/scrapbookFiles/postedD0.jpg

Use this instead:
<<>img src="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/postedD0.jpg" width="150">




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