Picture downloads

[JohnBlade]

Hi Phil,
Am having problems downloading pictures as an attachmant from my pictures file in my computer.Have no problems e-mailing them but when I try to attach them on thre web-site and then submit the message I get the 'the page cannot be dislpayed' message on my screen.It also mentions 'cannot find server or DNS Error'....any ideas ?

[DaveP]

Thats a standard IE error message you're getting...can you explain exactly how you are attempting to attach the pictures?

[JohnBlade]

Ok...typing my message and then going to 'add an attachment'......then browse into my pictures file and then select a picture by double clicking it and then submitting it.That's when the problem happens...text only is fine ! Any ideas ? Tks

[DaveP]

Like this ?

[DaveP]

Click add attachment...browse to the file...then click the second add attachment....then click post.

There's a size limit to attachments...and also a set of allowed file extensions (.jpg/.gif etc)

[JohnBlade]

Ok will give it a go....tks

[JohnBlade]

I think the pictures (photos from a mobile phone..) are too big : 1280 x 960 JPEG Image 597 kb for example
Any ideas how to overcome this...sorry but computers are not my strong points.....

[DaveP]

Ahh...yeah..could well be...I can't remember the size limit off the top of my head...maybe 512kb.

You can resize them with a paint type program on your PC...paintshop pro or similar...I think microsoft have a free resizer actually...try a google search for "free jpg resizer"

[wazza]

Image Resizer from Microsoft Powertoys

[JohnBlade]

Tks,getting there slowly

[JohnBlade]

Success ! All I needed to do was to reduce the size of the pictures.Rockin & rollin now.Cheers for the advise.