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One thing that may get a bit tiresome, is talk about "bandwidth stealing." This simply means that you are using an image that still resides on another person's website. That's not nice, which is why I have a "no right click" script on my site. Sorry if that is inconvenient for anyone, but that's the way it is. I know that it's not infallible, but it's something. That's also why the graphic sets are zipped up for you.
After you unzip the images, and when you add them to your page, you insert it from your disk or your hard drive. That way, your stuff is all on your own site. When you simply link to the graphic from MY page, (do not hit "copy location" or "save link") if I were to move the graphic, or delete it, it will not show up on your site 'cos it's NOT ON your site. PLUS, everytime someone goes to your site, the browser tries to find the graphic, and goes to MY site, causing extra activity on MY web server, which counts as traffic on my site, and which costs me EXtra money!
When you pay $$$ to host a web site, as I do, they charge you for the amount of traffic (bandwidth) that you have. If you go over the amount that you signed up for, the host charges more money. It's not like a free web site, ie; GeoCities/Yahoo, Live Journal... so on and so forth... it is NOT free. Does that make any sense? I know that it can be confusing, and some of you don't do it to be rude, I know that you simply don't understand. So, if you just save the images, there will be no problem, k? Here's a few more words-o-wisdom for beginners.
**2008** I used to have a bunch of info about the bad side of AOL. I think that they’re probably way different than they used to be - I would certainly hope so. We used to say “friends don’t let friends use AOL.” (another popular saying was “friends don’t let friends use MS Front Page!”) Sooo, I have deleted all of that old stuff that I had listed here.
Another little note... Any of the images that I use to decorate my own pages are not for public use. In other words, I would like to have my own stuff for my site, ya know? so please don't use :)
Alrighty then, have fun, browse around... and most of all, enjoy yourself, k? xoxo, ~Kitty
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