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Understanding Bandwidth Everytime someone posts a tag on Signature Designz it puts that image into storage somewhere. At this time, MSN allows each passport account 3mb of free storage. Alot of our staff/taggers as well as some members have found it useful to use free storage sites (Image Hosting Sites) outside of MSN; so that their images can stay posted longer and to make up for the storage used to create MSN albums such as our snag album and our request albums. These "free" sites only allow a certain amount of Bandwidth per month. If the image hosting account has people copying and pasting their images, it takes from their bandwidth amount. This can actually cause that person to have their account shut down for a certain amount of time until their month refreshes & it is considered Bandwidth Theft. Because management has been running into a certain amount of problems with this happening, we thought it would be beneficial to have this tutorial to teach you how to figure out on your own whether an image is safe to copy and paste or not. **For those who do not want to do all this to figure it out, we would highly suggest that you save all images to your hard drive first before posting a tag that you just snagged or picked up. For those of you who want to learn how, here is our simple tutorial to help. Bandwidth Tutorial There are really only a few steps to figure out where the image you are fixing to copy & paste came from. Step One: Put your cursor over the picture and right click. (All images are exclusively for Signature Designz) At the bottom of the box that pops up is "Properties" Click this box Step Two Another box will appear: In the area highlighted in red is the address of where this image is stored. This image was posted in MSN. As long as you copy and paste within MSN, it is safe to copy & paste without first saving (as long as it isn't an image that we've asked you to not remove) Here is an example of an address that is NOT in MSN. This address says Photobucket. Any address that does not say http://groups.msn.com should NOT be copied and pasted. There are several image host sites other than the one above. Save to your hard drive first before posting. That's all there is to this tut. Very simple, don't you think? Every group you are in has problems like this if they use other storage sites. The management at Signature Designz hopes that with this information you can help us manage our storage on these host sites by doing the right thing: So we can continue to offer you lots of tags & snags! Your questions are always welcome in Manager Help. Thanks for your time! ~Signature Designz Staff~ HTML By Jacque Background by Suze 2007 | | | | |
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