I finally figured out how to post a small picture to the side bar on my Joeuser blog page. I knew it could be done as I'd seen it on another JU blog a while back. But being a coding dummy, I had no idea how to do it. Yesterday I spent a lot of time doing various cut and paste jobs of img src code lines but couldn't get it to work.
Finally, today, I went back to my More Blogstreet post and saw some helpful hints from Gene Nash (he's the blogger who made me aware you could put a pic in the side bar). He mentioned that he put the blogstreet link in his side bar but had to do two redirects because the blogstreet link was too long. That got me thinking that my img src line was too long. So, first I tried to shorten the file name of the image I was linking to. But it was still too long. I couldn't make the rest of the link shorter, since it's a geocities account and it's based on my username.
So, I found another place to host the image and voila! I got a short redirect link and a picture in the side bar!!! HOLY CRAP! That was frustrating! But I feel so much better now that I've figured it out.
If you would like to do the same, here's how you do it -
First, find a place to host your images. If you've been here a while, you probably have already figured this out. The key here is that the link has to be a short one. It can only be 38 characters long (that includes the http://www.whatever.com/yourpicname.jpg
Next, go into the my account area on JU and select the edit site custom links.
Figure out what heading you want the image to appear under. Then, for link title, put in the img src code line. Leave the URL line blank. You don't need to put anything in that field. Here's an example -
(img src="//www.yoursite.com/picname.jpg")
Change the ( and ) to < and >. Those are just there for the example, so JU doesn't think this is a real image redirect. The code should start with the < and end with the >.
The key is, JU won't let you put in a link title that is over 50 characters long. So, the web address to your pic has to be 38 or less because the code will will take up 12 characters.
Damn, I'm proud of myself for figuring that one out! Even if you code savvy types don't think it's all that big a deal!