Scarlet
Pirate Voyager's
Tricks
Of The
Trade

Using "Imagick Magick" Studios

Pirate Voyager Tools



IN THE MANY YEARS OF USING THE INTERNET
ESPECIALLY WITH WEBTV
AS I AM SURE MANY OF YOU HAVE ALSO RUN INTO SOME GLITCHES ALONG WITH DISCOVERIES
I DECIDED TO DOCUMENT THEM AS WELL AS I CAN REMEMBER AS I WENT ALONG. THIS PAGE WILL KEEP BEING UPDATED AS THINGS COME TO ME AS TO WHAT I DID AND FOUND...
**this page will constantly be updated as I remember/find things to add



#34 -- PROTECTING YOUR ACCOUNT

IN ORDER FOR OTHERS NOT TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT IS IN YOUR ACCOUNT AND IT'S DIRECTORIES
(MAINLY FROM "PEELING" BACK THE URLS)
YOU WILL NEED WHAT IS CALLED A
"SECURITY PAGE"
IE. I MADE MINE ABOUT INFORMATION REGARDING MY DOMAIN NAMES AND WEBSITES
http://scarletimagery.com/index.html
(**THIS ONE IS IN "ROOT" DIRECTORY THAT IS WHY NO DIRECTORY NAMED IN URL.
HOWEVER,YOU WILL NEED ONE FOR EVERY DIRECTORY AND MAIN (ROOT) DIRECTORY

HERE IS HOW IT'S DONE::

-- MAKE A PAGE (.html)
(YOU CAN HAVE ANYTHING ON IT. I HAVE SEEN IT ALL, I THINK..... ANYTHING FROM LINKS TO PEOPLE'S OTHER WEBSITES TO "GET OUT!!!!".... IT IS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU)

-- WHEN SOMEBODY THEN PEELS BACK YOUR URL TO THAT PARTICULAR DIRECTORY,,,
THEY WILL SEE THAT "SECURITY PAGE",
NOT THE REST OF WHAT IS IN THERE

. --YOU "HAVE TO HAVE TO" NAME IT index.html
(NO CAPS..... IT WILL HAVE IE. http://whoever.250free.com/IMAGES/index.html)

-- PUT ON THERE, LIKE I SAID, ANYTHING YOU WISH TO SAY TO SOMEONE WHO MIGHT BE "PEEKING"

-- THERE "HAS TO HAS TO" BE A COPY OF IT IN EVERY DIRECTORY, INCLUDING SUBDIRECTORIES (SOME SERVERS DO NOT HAVE "COPY" FUNCTION SO YOU CANNOT COPY THE PAGE FROM WHERE YOU MADE IT. YOU "MUST" TRANSLOAD IT INTO EVERY DIRECTORY THAT YOU HAVE. )

YOUR ACCOUNT AND VALUABLE BELONGINGS ARE NOW SAFE AND TRULY PRIVATE

#35 -- CAN'T UPLOAD URLS WITH UNUSUAL CHARACTERS INTO "IMAGE MAGICK"?

IF YOU HAVE A URL THAT HAS UNUSUAL CHARACTERS CONTAINED IN IT
FOR EXAMPLE. "BLUE%20LION"
"IMAGE MAGICK" WILL NOT ACCEPT THE "%20" PART AND YOU WILL GET A STOP SIGN.
IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THIS::

-- PASTE THE URL, AS USUAL, INTO THE "URL" UPON ENTERING THE STUDIO

-- ONCE THE URL IS SHOWING,
HIT YOUR "ENTER" KEY ONCE
(IN ORDER TO ACTIVATE IT)
ONCE ACTIVATED, USE YOUR LEFT ARROW KEY TO BACK THE CURSOR INTO THE URL.

-- ONCE YOU HAVE COME TO THE %20 PART, ERASE IT.

**IMPORTANT!!
WHERE YOU HAVE JUST ERASED THE %20, TYPE A "SPACE" AND LEAVE IT IN THE URL

-- HIT "VIEW" AND NOW IMAGE MAGICK WILL ACCEPT THE INFORMATION

#36 -- ANOTHER WAY TO OPTIMIZE IN "IMAGE MAGICK"

WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT HOW TO OPTIMIZE AN IMAGE USING "QUALITY" ON OUTPUT
(PAGE ONE)
ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE SURE YOUR IMAGE IS AS LOW AS POSSIBLE IN KB'S IS::

-- AFTER YOU CHECK THE "QUALITY" PARAMETER AND MAKE SURE IT = 25
DROP DOWN EVEN FURTHER, PAST A TEXT BOX.
THE FIRST CHECKMARK BOX READS
"STRIP IMAGES OF ANY UNWANTED CHARACTERS OR COMMENTS"
PUT A CHECKMARK THERE
SCROLL UP AFTER THAT AND YOU ARE READY TO EXIT "IMAGE MAGICK"

#37 -- MAKE SURE YOUR WEBSITE/GALLERY IS DISTRIBUTED

THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO, AFTER "CREATING" ART
BE IT "IMAGERY", "WRITING", A "WEBPAGE", A "WEBSITE", WHATEVER IS ON A PAGE THAT YOU MADE, IS
D I S T R I B U T I O N

WHAT MIGHT THAT BE?
SIMPLE.
GET YOUR CREATION(S) OUT, CIRCULATED ON THE INTERNET SO THAT OTHERS CAN SEE IT AND ENJOY IT.
(DEPENDING ON THE CONTENTS, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE "METATAGS" THAT CONTAIN WORDS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT FIND YOUR SITE WHEN SEARCHING WITH
(USE "HTML" SITES FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON "HOW TO CREATE" USING RESOURCE

PIRATE VOYAGER TOOLS & MORE

ALSO AN ADDRESS SO THAT THE VIEWER CAN CONTACT YOU, IF NEED BE.
THE SEARCH ENGINE WITH THE HIGHEST VISIBILITY IS "GOOGLE"
http://google.com

THERE ARE MANY MANY OTHERS. SEARCH UNDER "SEARCH ENGINES".
THE RANKING, ACCORDING TO KEYWORD SEARCHES, GOES HAND IN HAND WITH HOW MANY HITS A SITE RECEIVES SO THE MORE HITS A SITE, USING THE SAME SEARCH WORD HAS, THE PRIORITY IT WILL HAVE ACCORDING TO HOW IT IS LISTED,
MOST POPULAR= FIRST TO LAST

#38 -- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE VISITING YOUR PAGES/SITES?

IN ORDER TO FIND OUT HOW MANY VISITORS YOU ARE GETTING, WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM, HOW LONG THEY ARE STAYING TO LOOK AT CERTAIN PAGES AND MUCH MUCH MORE INFORMATION,
THERE IS A "METER" (IN CODE) THAT YOU CAN PUT AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR ENTRY PAGE.
THIS WILL GIVE YOU DETAILED CHARTERS AS TO THE ACTIVITY TAKING PLACE ON YOUR SITE.
HEY, YOU SPENT ALL THAT TIME MAKING IT? WHY NOT FIND OUT IF IT IS BEING APPRECIATED
OR
PERHAPS IT NEEDS BETTER DISTRIBUTION(see above)
GET ONE AT

"SITEMETER"

#39 -- IS YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE LOADING TOO SLOWLY?

SOMETIME TOO MUCH TEXT, IMAGES (ESPECIALLY ANIMATION) WILL SLOW AN EMAIL SIG DOWN.
ONE WAY TO TRY TO CHANGE THAT IS TO USE "EMBEDDED SOURCE" AS YOUR CODE.
HOW DOES THAT WORK?

-- MAKE A PAGE OF WHAT YOU WANT YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE TO LOOK LIKE

-- LEAVE THE "HTML" AND "BODY" TAGS
(BEGINNING AND END)
IN THE EMAIL SIGNATURE TEXT AREA.
HOWEVER, WHERE YOU WOULD NORMALLY PUT YOUR OTHER "TREASURES" INBETWEEN THOSE AND WHAT IS NOW ON YOUR NEW PAGE MUST BE ERASED
-- SUBSTITUTE THE "NOW EMPTY" SPACE WITH THIS CODE

<embed src="URL OF PAGE YOU MADE"</embed>

EVERYTHING ON THAT PAGE WILL NOW SHOW UP ON YOUR EMAIL SIG.
**NOTE: YOU CAN USE THIS FOR ANY KIND OF CODE SUBSTITUTION.
HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT SHOW UP ON MSNTV2 OR COMPUTERS.
IN THAT CASE, I SUGGEST USING "SERVER SIDE INCLUDE" CODE
(AGAIN, CHECK "PIRATE'S TOOLS PAGE FOR INSTRUCTION REFERENCES)

#40 -- CODING ANCHOR TAGS

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HAD TO "CLICK ON" SOMETHING IN ORDER TO GET TO SOMEWHERE ELSE?
BE IT, TO SEE AN IMAGE/GRAPHIC OR A WEBPAGE, WEBSITE BY "CLICKING ON" EITHER ANOTHER IMAGE/GRAPHIC OR TEXT

WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU ARE USING "ANCHOR TAGS"
WHENEVER YOU WANT TO "LEAD" YOUR VIEWER TO ANOTHER PLACE, THIS IS WHAT TO DO::

-- IF YOU WANT TO DISPLAY AN IMAGE/GRAPHIC TO LEAD TO SOMEWHERE ELSE, CODE THE FOLLOWING-- <a href="URL OF TARGET, THAT BEING WHERE YOU WANT THEM TO GO"><img src="URL OF WHAT YOU FIRST WANT VIEWER TO "CLICK ON"></a> -- IF YOU WANT TO DISPLAY TEXT TO LEAD SOMEWHERE ELSE, CODE THE FOLLOWING -- <a href="URL OF TARGET, THAT BEING WHERE YOU WANT THEM TO GO"><font size="4" color="black">CLICK THIS ON TO SEE PRETTY PICTURE</font></a> -- IF YOU WANT VIEWER TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, CODE THE FOLLOWING -- <a href="URL OF DESTINIATION, BE IT YOUR HOMEPAGE, NEWSGROUP, SLIDESHOW, ETC."> <img src="URL OF IMAGE/GRAPHIC"></a> OR <font size="4" color="black">COME SEE MY HOMEPAGE</font></a>

#41 -- FURTHER OPTMIZING IMAGE ON "OUTPUT" FROM "MAGICK" STUDIO

BESIDES USING "QUALITY" IN "OUTPUT" WHEN OUTPUTTING YOUR IMAGE FROM THE STUDIO
(make it QUALITY=25 unless degraded changes take place in your image.
ie. pixellation, dithering, irregularities, etc.
then make the number higher than 25 until the degradation goes away)

GO DOWN FURTHER PAST "QUALITY" TO "MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS"

ONCE THERE YOU WILL SEE THE FIRST OPTION
"REMOVE ANY COMMENTS"

PUT A CHECKMARK THERE
(if there are any comments in the textbox directly above that phrase, erase them)

THIS WILL ALSO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE, CUTTING DOWN ON THE VOLUME OF "KBS" THAT YOUR IMAGE NOW IS

GO UP, CLICK ON "OUTPUT", TAKE YOUR IMAGE "URL" AND DISPLAY IT SOMEWHERE PROUDLY

#42 -- TIME TEMPORARY IMAGE "URL" LASTS

ALOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE THAT THE TEMPORARY "URL" YOUR IMAGE IS ASSIGNED TO YOU ONCE "OUTPUTTING" MAGICK STUDIO IS JUST THAT,
TEMPORARY

THE "URL" FROM THE STUDIO WILL LAST 2 HOURS, THAT IS 120 MINUTES.
NO MORE,,,NO LESS
SO, IF YOU ARE POSTING IT SOMEWHERE OR SENDING IT OR SAVING IT,
DON'T!!!

IN ORDER TO NOT FORGET, TRANSLOAD/DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE A.S.A.P.

(SUGGESTION: I always tell people to name their images something with a KEYWORD that relates to either the subject matter on it or the FUNCTIONS/EFFECTS used.
Sooner than you realize, once you become addicted to Imaging, the numbers of them you have will increase and if you do not name them with a KEYWORD it is going to be very hard for you to find it when you want it.)

#43 -- USE "FIND" TEXTAREA AS "MINI" NOTEPAD

IF YOU COME ACROSS SOME INFORMATION
ie. A HEX COLOR NUMBER, SOMEONE'S WEB EMAIL ADDRESS, A "URL", A SITE NAME, etc.
AND YOU ALREADY HAVE INFORMATION/"URLS" HARVESTED (COPIED)
YOU CANNOT PICK UP THE NEW INFORMATION BY COPYING IT
USE YOUR "FIND" TEXTAREA AS A TEMPORARY "NOTEPAD"
(it will hold approximately 2 "URLS" depending on the length)
IT WILL SAVE YOU SOME RUNNING BACK AND FORTH

#44 -- IF YOU CANNOT OUTPUT FROM IMAGE MAGICK PART 2

EARLIER IN "TRICKS OF THE TRADE", WE TALKED ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO OUTPUT FROM IMAGE MAGICK FOR WHATEVER REASON
I SUGGESTED USING "WEBSCISSORS" UPLOADING TO YOUR PAGEBUILDER AS ONE SOLUTION.
YESTERDAY, MSNTV WENT DOWN FOR MOST OF THE NIGHT.
I HAD JUST SPENT HOURS WORKING ON AN IMAGE AND WAS ABOUT TO "OUTPUT" TO MY ACCOUNT WHEN I REALIZED I HAD NO CONTACT. THE CONNECTION TO MY ACCOUNTS HAD BEEN BROKEN, IN FACT, "WEBSCISSORS" CAME UP BUT THEY COULD NOT CONNECT WITH PAGEBUILDER SO THAT SOLUTION WASN'T ANY GOOD.
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO "COPY" YOU IMAGE IN "OUTPUT", BELOW THERE IS AN "FTP" TRANSLOADER.
THANK GOODNESS I KNOW HOW TO USE "FTP"
(File Transfer Protocol)
OTHERWISE ALL THAT EFFORT AND MY IMAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.
I HIGHLY SUGGEST THAT YOU LEARN HOW TO USE "FTP" IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ACCOUNT(S) YOU LEASE SPACE FROM
(see Tip#45 for more on "FTP" transloading)

"FTP" INFORMATION

THIS IS SOMETHING WORTH LEARNING OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE REGRETS.



Pirate's "Tricks of the Trade" Part 1

Pirate's "Tricks of the Trade" Part 2

Pirate's "Tricks of the Trade" Part 4

Pirate's "Tricks of the Trade" Part 5

Te Namaste,
Scarlet Pirate Voyager


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