Where are the photos in my blog entry??

I created my first blog entry this evening and for some reason my photos did not show up. I am not HTML illiterate and I followed the instructions for mindats simpler version. I added the photos just before I added them to the blog. Could this have something to do with it? There are already in the database. I copy and pasted it here below. Can someone tell me what I have done wrong? Thanks, Jason.

1-13-08

So I decided that I should share with you guys my collecting adventures from time to time. I decided on Friday last week that I wanted to head out to the dumps at the <l id=3280>Foote Mine</l>. I used to spend at least one weekend day a month out there but after 8 years, the pickins is slim as they say and with well over 1000 specimens from here already, I dont go out as much. I got up this morning (kind of rugged, my wife threw a party last night) ate a little breakfast and headed out. It was cool today, about 44 for the high and cloudy. I was ready to pound!

When I go out now I really have to work the big boulders to find anything. The last time I was out in October I was working on a boulder that was showing some promise. Some crusty hureaulite, strunzite, nice mangangordonite and others were showing up. I decided to start back on it. <pic id=145441 float=right> After a couple hours work I was able to clear out an old core hole that happened to be in the block and I used the head of my old broken sledge and two chisels to split the boulder. <pic id=145442 float=left> The left-hand portion that was freed was full of some nice things and was worth the work. I found the best hureaulites I have ever seen from here. Spectacular day!

The mangangordonites were a plenty <pic id=145444> with xls to about 1.5mm. Many of them are a bit dried out and white but still nice nonetheless.

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There were also some nice childrenite/eosphorites

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and some very unusual cavities filled with very tiny but sharp metaswitzerite xls with tiny but gemmy vivianites, something I have only found one other time.

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By far the finds of the day were several (at least 8) very good to exceptional hureaulite specimens. Hureaulite in nice xls excites me very much here because it is quite rare. Usually when found hureaulite here is almost massive due to the tight spaces it grows in. The vugs here are very small and very isolated. <pic id=145443> You never know when you will come across one when collecting. The hureaulite tends to be in zones and you are just lucky if you find a vug with any in it. The specimens I collected today made my heart jump. The best is a 2cm vug with clusters of xls to nearly 7mm.

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Overall not a bad day. From just the one half of this boulder many species were found. In addition to the above were: strunzite, laueite, rockbridgeite, beraunite, stewartite, cacoxenite, rittmanite/whiteite, and one very strange specimen with a broken spray of kastningite xls with a small cluster of autunites growing on it. One for the paragenesis value alone. Well thanks for reading and happy collecting!

You have to put a comment and close the <pic> like this

<pic id=145435 width=400>This is my pic</pic>

Then it will work!

Jolyon

So can you delete the old one if I fix it and repost it?

Also, for the record, there is no mention of HAVING to add a caption in the link in the blog creator window, just instructions for adding the pic itself. Thanks, Jason.

You should just be able to edit the page.

Please check the examples in the instructions - they will help in most cases to make it easier to use the codes.

Jolyon

Jolyon,
It is a blog and it can't be edited once it is published.

(I went in and edited it so that the photos are added. If you want different captions let me know.) Deleted old blog.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2008 03:00PM by David Von Bargen.

Hi Jolyon,

Off topic but did you receive my email about Heat Sensitivity?

Bill G

Sorry, wasn't paying attention. In future, if someone messes up a blog entry, the best thing to do is for us (management) to switch it back to unpublished, then they can edit it themselves and republish!

Moral of this story is always check your blog looks the way you want it to before it is 'published'. If necessary we can check your 'unpublished' blog if you have a problem so it can get sorted before others see it - just let me know if you want me to check something, I don't generally go and look at unpublished blogs unless I'm invited to!

Jolyon

Thanks guys. Yeah, I checked everything before I publised it but I just figured that for some reason the photos didnt show up until you published. David, thanks for removing the old blog. And someone may want to make it clear in the help box for adding photos in the blog entry window that you have to add a caption to the photo for it to show up. Thanks! Jason.

Jolyon,
You can edit or delete the blog, but I don't see a way to unpublish it without getting directly in the database table.

Thats what I meant, but we could probably do with a management 'unpublish' button. Will do.