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Friday, August 20th, 2004 at 1:54 PM |
It’s a sad state when another elementary school Web site steals bandwidth from yours by linking to the image instead of downloading it and putting on its own server. The school can have the image. I don’t care. Ah, so I had to teach them a lesson, hence the screen shot.
Only the black font is my image. My school has a gift wrap fund raiser just like every other school does. Originally, I wrote, “I’m stealing bandwidth from another site,” but the site resized the image I had and it looked terrible. So I changed the height and width and shortened the phrasing. It does the trick, you think?
Paul said I should’ve put something more colorful to get the school’s attention. Hey, I’m a mom… I’m not going to go nuts here. But he didn’t mean n@ked pics or anything.
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3 comments
How did you do that? I would like to know.
I looked at the property of the image on the site by right-clicking on it and selecting Properties. I went into Photoshop and opened my image with the same name. Cleared out the picture, resized the image to match the site’s image size, typed the text, and uploaded the image back on my server with the exact same name.
The thief is already pointing to my site — so it was just replacing it with a new picture. All you have to do is keep the file name and location in the same spot.
Oh, I love fooling with bandwidth thieves. I usually end up replacing the image with some sort of snarky but not entirely rude comment…
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