I WILL STEP FORWARD AND SAVE DA-FU!

I think people have ignored you, cause this is a bit tricky … but let’s give it a try.

First off, I just added a fishing background to one of my listings … check out “Balance Beam Creek” at 53074. Please note how it will turn out, it will not be much of a border on the top/sides, but more on the bottom, that’s just how it turns out, when displayed on the GC.Com pages. No options there.

Now how did I do it …

(1) Find an image that fits the normal requirements for an image file that can be “attached” to a cache page (ie. no more than 600 pixels wide, no more than 125k in file size). I found some files like this by search for “fishing backgrounds” on the web … if you want to use the one I found, or it’s lighter version … goto http://autumnweb.com/Roxys/Holidays/4ManlyFishingBrdr-n-TileGrfx.html …. then right-click and “Save Picture As” … BUT take note where you save the picture on your computer, so you can find it later.

(2) Now, create your geocache web page, as normal. When your done making the cache page, then view it as normal. Click on the [Upload Image] choice in the upper-right corner of the screen. Then simply upload the image you saved on your computer from step #1 Maybe give it a name like “Background”.

(3) Now view your cache page again. Scroll down below the map on the page, but before where the log entries will appear. Click on the name of the image you uploaded (in my example it’s called “Background”.

(4) You should now have JUST the image in a new window on your browser. Highlight the URL address of the Image (in my example, it says http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/3e1455c4-60b9-4aa3-b72c-3ff2d57a628d.jpg) AND right-click then copy … this should copy the web address of your image to your clipboard.

(5) Now close the window that has just the image. Click on [Edit Listing] to open up your cache page for editing. Scroll down about one screen, to a spot just above the coordinates for your listing. You’ll see a field called “Background Image URL). Click into that box and Paste your clipboard contents to that box. The box should now contain the URL web address of your background image.

(6) Scroll down to the end of the Editing Cache screen … click the two “Yes” boxes and hit [Edit Listing].

(7) Go back to viewing your Cache Listing … it should now have the background.

Best of luck!

NOTE: sometimes people do NOT upload the image file to the GC.com cache listing page … they might have their own web space through their web/email provider … but you will need to know the steps to upload to your web space on your own, as that varies depending on the web provider … in that case you would upload the image file to your web space and reference that URL file location, rather than an image file uploaded on GC.com

[This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 05-10-2005).]