Helpful Tips and Links ~ 3

UPLOADING AND TRANSLOADING

They are basically the same thing ~ a way to move gifs from one place to another. However the mechanisms to do that are determined by what you are using as your computer and where your website is located.

If your website is anywhere but webtv you will be Transloading and I'll explain that in another section. The only time a webtver uses a transloader, is if they are putting a pic on a geocities, tripod, or some other web location that is FTP-capable.

WEBTV UPLOADS. There are lots of uploaders to choose from and these are just a few. Beth's WebTV Scrapbook Uploader (my version of it) is one of the easiest to use as it will handle gifs of just about any size. Transloader.Com is excellent and will also move gifs of all sizes. Webscissors is another tool many people use, although you are limited in the size of the gif.

All of these will upload gifs directly to your scrapbook. All you have to do is follow the instructions for each loader and they're pretty much all used in the same way.

UPLOADING from a clickable gif that comes up alone on a (usually) black background. You can use any of the already mentioned uploaders, although from another pagebuilder page, or webscissors are the only ones that usually work. Ideally, you have put your uploader on one of the 7 F-keys that webtv gives us on the keyboard. While you are viewing the gif on the black background, you just press the F-key containing your uploader and you're ready to roll.

If you don't have your uploader saved as a favorite, you can still upload the gif while you're looking at it. Just press your 'goto' button, and type into the URL line the address of the uploader you want to use.

TRANSLOADING

For webtvers, we transload from webtv to another web host - like Tripod. Or from one non-pagebuilder site to another. Webtv can't transload because it has no FTP (file transfer protocol).

If you are using a non-pagebuilder web host, like Tripod and Angelfire, although there are MANY others - not all of them webtv-friendly. For these - this is what you would fill in to the FTP line ~

Tripod ~ ftp.tripod.com
Angelfire ~ ftp.angelfire.com

The main transloader is Transloader.Com. Size-wise it will move huge gifs - and it will also move midis (pagebuilder has no storage for music files, sorry). You will have to CCP the address of the gif that you want to move.

I hope this helps to clear up some questions you may have about uploading and transloading, how it's done and how they differ. If not feel free to email me.

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