Most web hosting services give you an IMAGES directory to store your item files. After you create your web pages, you simply upload all of your images via FTP to this directory, and the HTML code calls the images from that directory. Yahoo! Store is a little different, but Y!S also gives you an alternative method of storing images. With Yahoo! Store, you actually upload the IMAGES, ICONS, and INSETS to the item itself. Yahoo! Store then sticks them on the image server. This can present a problem for the intermediate or advanced user who want to do something a little different from what the templates allow. Enter the FILES library. Yahoo! Store offers the FILES library in ADVANCED EDIT mode. You can see it as a link on the EDITING NAVBAR. Click on FILES and you will see all of the FILES (images and other files) that you have stored in the library, as well as the UPLOAD button. UPLOAD -- This is a simple way to upload images one at a time to the FILES library. It's just like uploading an IMAGE to an ITEM. Click on the UPLOAD button. Yahoo! Store prompts you to browse your hard drive for the file you want to upload. Select the file. Click SEND. THE RED BOX -- There is a maximum file size allowed for UPLOADS to Yahoo! Store. This is to conserve space on the Yahoo! Servers. When you upload a file that is way too big for an internet image, instead of displaying that IMAGE or even a resized version of that IMAGE, Yahoo! Store shows a 1/2" red square. Oops! Resize that sucker to less than * 1 meg -- shoot for 30-50K at most unless you have a LOT of detail, and reupload that sucker. |
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