Image display size on Chrome vs. Firefox, IE
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Hello!
I have a weird one today:
I wrote a page about a model I just finished;
I store the images on a wordpress site I have just for that purpose. I then paste them in from their URL and link to the image URL. I’ve been doing this for years, no worries.
Today, though, I published the page, and when I checked it, everything looked fine. I click on the image though, and while it’s big on the page, it is super-small when you have it open on a new tab. What? I’ve never seen this; it usually gets BIGGER when you click on it, because I use good-sized photos. I’m doing this in Chrome, where I always do it. My other pages all look fine.
When I try and insert any other picture, from any other of my media storage sites, I get them being very small in the web page, even though they’re big on other pages I’ve done, and it’s the same image!
Odder still, if I view the new page (the Jegan) with IE or Firefox, they pictures open in a new tab nice and big.
What’s going on?
I hope someone can help me!
Thanks!
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Oh, one other thing; when I edit the page in other viewers, I don’t have an issue either.
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Hi there,
For what images is this happening?
I only see one image on the page you link to, and if I click the image the file loads at the same size for me in both Chrome and Firefox.
All other images on that page are broken, as they’ve been hotlinked from another site, https://lagoonannex2.wordpress.com/, which you deleted around 3 hours ago.
I store the images on a wordpress site I have just for that purpose. I then paste them in from their URL and link to the image URL. I’ve been doing this for years, no worries.
May I ask why you do this? Your site comes with 3GB of free media storage (of which you’ve used about a third), which can last for years and thousands of images if you properly optimize your images for the web.
Hotlinking images in the way you’re doing is not the best idea. If something goes wrong with the site where the images are hosted, they also disappear on the site where they are used, as has happened here. It has a negative effect on your SEO, as search engines will index those images at the URL where they are hosted, not at the URL of the page where they are used. And strictly speaking we don’t really allow sites that exist for the sole purpose of hosting media files to use on a completely different site.
All this considered, it would be better, and you’d be much less likely to experience any problems, if you just uploaded those images directly on the site where you want to use them.
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Yeah, the other images are nuked, you’re right. I’ve since fixed them by putting them in “Annex 3”, which seems to work fine.
It was weird. Any pic I had in Annex 2 just pasted in really small. The same pic in Annex 1 or Annex 3 was fine. I don’t get it. The best way to deal with an issue was, as always, to simply eradicate the source of the probelm, so I got rid of Annex 2 before I got this response.
As for why I do it, here are some reasons:
1.) I am super NOT a computer person, despite being an Engineer. I don’t really “get” websites, but I just know what works for me. Doing it this way has worked for me for years. However, I DO NOT like change. Thus, while I know there is a day coming when I have to find some other page to post on, because my 3GB will run out, I want to hold that out as long as possible. So, to do that, I minimize the media storage (the expensive part, space-wise) on the main page, and use the annex as an “armoury” for pics.
2.) You’re right, if I lose the Annex, I’m toast. But, I only lose it if WordPress dies, and then my whole site is toast regardless. I know there are downsides to using “external hosting”, but another WordPress site is better than “photobucketing” my stuff on a dodgy third-party site.
3.) It might last me for another 10 years, sure. But if I can get 20 or 25 out of it, then I’ll take that route!
4.) I don’t now anything about SEO or indexing or anything else. I am really not that into the Website as a way of generating revenue; I just want to share what I do with people. I don’t have the faintest idea how to improve my traffic, or how image hosting would affect that. You’re likely right, but I don’t think it’s worth the trade-off on ease of use.
5.) If there’s a way to compress pics in the Media Library but use them full-sized, I’d be tempted to just do what you suggest, and post it all on the one site. However, I have no idea if that’s possible.
Thanks for the help and tips, though!
Adam
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Hi Adam,
You’re right; you’d only really have trouble if WordPress went down — or if you deleted the site.
Do you want us to un-delete the site so we can see what was wrong, or shall we not worry about it for now? We can undelete a site within 30 days of deletion, so let us know.
5.) If there’s a way to compress pics in the Media Library but use them full-sized, I’d be tempted to just do what you suggest, and post it all on the one site. However, I have no idea if that’s possible.
Do you mean so you can have more than the storage space we allot to free sites?
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True, but I don’t know why I’d delete my site… :) An image annex, sure, but not the main site.
No, it’s okay. Since I’ve found a workaround, there’s no point in going into it any further. With the way I’ve got things set up now, I think I can get by for quite some time! It was just so weird. I mean, even when I posted them, the started coming out small in my working copy, not even the display copy!
Thanks for the offer though. If it ever happens again, I’ll have to have help looking into it more completely.
As for the compression thing, I guess I’ve been trained by our IT guys at work to keep things as compressed as possible. I always worry about storage, so I was just asking so that I didn’t end up using unnecessary space. However, there is a LOT of it, so you’re right that I likely am just thinking “too far” ahead! :)
Thanks again for the help!
Adam
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