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Images not shown in Internet Explorer

Sometimes, the photos, images, pictures or graphics do not show or display in a website in Internet Explorer (“IE”) browser or an email in MS Outlook Express. Instead, where the pictures ought to be, there is a Red X or a placeholder.

Images not shown in Internet Explorer

Several factors could have caused this problem of images not being displayed in IE. In this Help guide, we'll look at these reasons and the solutions to show images in IE. Some of the possible causes may only be resolved by the webmaster. If you are an owner of a Blog or a webmaster, these tips might be useful to note when you are uploading images onto your Blog or webpage.

1. Image type not supported by IE

When you see a red X or placeholder, right-click on it to view the “Properties” of the image. Look at the image “Type” and “Address (URL”). IE supports images with .art, .avi, .bmp, .emf, .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .mov, .mpeg, .mpg, .png, .wmf, and .xbm extensions. As a webmaster, if you have to put images on your website, try to stick to the usual image formats or have alternative images in these formats.

2. “Show Pictures” option in IE not selected

If you are using IE 7, under Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab, there is an option called “Show pictures” under the “Multimedia” heading. Select this option and press OK to save the change. In other IE versions, the option may fall under a different heading.

3. Scripts disabled in IE

Webmasters may use Active scripts, Scriptlets, Java applet, ActiveX control, or cookies to display the images on their sites. If the security setting in IE browser is set to “High”, these features may be blocked. To enable them, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security tab. View the “Internet” zone and under “Security level for this zone” change it to “Medium” or “Medium-high”. You can also reset the zone to “Default” level. Likewise, under Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy tab where you define the cookie settings, you may set it to “Default” level. Click OK to save.

4. Scripts disabled by Firewall

Other than IE, the configurations in your Firewall program (Norton Personal Firewall, Zonealarm, McAfee, BitDefender, etc.) may have disabled some of these scripts. View the help file of the program you are using and follow their instructions to enable some of these scripts. For this reason, webmasters should avoid using too many scripts for the main contents of the sites. Consider adding text using <noscript> tags to cater to those who have scripts disabled.

5. Web bugs

Be careful when you are configuring the above settings. The web pages you view or emails you receive may sometimes contain hidden web bugs. These are usually small little graphics 1px by 1px that track user statistics like location, usage, pages visited, or whether an email has been read. This is even used in organizations and companies to find out how many times a message is forwarded or read by the staff. They do not pose major threats, but there are those who do not like this infringement of privacy. Take a stand and configure your security and privacy settings accordingly.

6. Images blocked in Outlook Express

We touch briefly on the problem of images not displayed in Outlook Express email program. When you are in Outlook Express, go to Tools -> Options -> Security and you'll see a “Download Images” configuration. If you want to view images in your email, do not tick the “Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail” option. Click OK and save the change. You should now be able to view images in Outlook and not see the red X symbol.

7. Images not sent in Outlook Express

Also, if you are sending email with images, you could have disabled these images in the configuration. Those receiving your email will only see the red X or placeholders rather than the images. The solution to this is to go to your Outlook Express Tools -> Options -> Send tab. The “Mail Sending Format” should be “HTML” and not “Plain Text”. Click the “HTML Settings” button and check the box next to “Send pictures with messages.” Click OK to save.

8. Character Set not recognized by IE

This sounds rather technical. In layman terms, the browser interprets the code page or encoding of the web page. If your IE browser does not recognize this character set, or if a file in your browser software is corrupted or missing, the images may not be displayed when viewing the web page. For instance, the web page may be in a foreign language. If so, see that this language has been added to the browser settings. In IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> General. Under “Appearance” there is a “Languages” button. (In other versions of IE, the Language option may be under a different heading.) Add the languages that you would use to read the web page and click OK to save. If you are still unable to view the page, it is possible that a file or registry key is corrupted or missing. To resolve this, you may follow the Microsoft Help guide on your desktop to restore or repair your Windows software.

9. Image Server is down

Since free blogging platforms including Blogger.com have limits on the amount of storage space taken up by the Blog photos, images and graphics, it is worth considering hosting these images on an external server and linking to them from your Blog. These too have limits on space and bandwidth. All servers, even Blogger.com, can have downtimes. When these image hosts are busy, undergoing maintenance, temporarily suspended, offline, or when the download bandwidth has been exceeded, the images linked to the Blog will not be displayed. The problem could be temporary, and should you need to see these images on a particular Blog, revisit the Blog an hour or so later.

10. Image links are broken or dead

Since the images are hosted on another platform and linked, there could be instances when the webmasters typed a wrong URL, placed the " at the wrong places or omitted the closing image tags. The image HTML code and attributes are discussed in Hyperlinks and Image Links. The image links could be broken or dead when webmasters delete the images from the server or switch image servers without updating the image links. It is also possible that the image is not hotlinked. By this we mean that when the image is stored on the image server, the link given is not a direct link to the image, but a page containing the image and other contents. Hotlinking takes up bandwidth and some image servers do not provide that service. If such URL is used in the image HTML code, the image will not show.

11. Cache not cleared

The Browser cache stores web page content of the sites you have visited on your hard disk. These are the Temporary Internet Files which supposedly speed up the page download when you revisit a site since some of the contents are already stored. However, these files can comprise cookies and JavaScripts too. Make it a habit to clear the cache regularly to remove these files. In IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> General and under “Browsing history” click “Delete” button. Delete all the Files and offline content. These are temporary files that can be removed. If you are unable to view images, sometimes deleting these Temporary Internet Files may solve the problem.

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Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project

Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics. The book points to www.google.com/chrome, but I can’t see anything live there yet. In a nut-shell, here’s what the comic announces Google Chrome to be:




  • Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.


  • The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.”



  • Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.






  • The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called ’omnibox’, Google says it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more. The omnibox (“omni” is a prefix meaning “all”, as in “omniscient” – “all-knowing”) also lets you enter e.g. “digital camera” if the title of the page you visited was “Canon Digital Camera”. Additionally, the omnibox lets you search a website of which it captured the search box; you need to type the site’s name into the address bar, like “amazon”, and then hit the tab key and enter your search keywords.


  • As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 screenshot thumbnails. To the side, you will also see a couple of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.






  • Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.” The latest version of Internet Explorer calls this InPrivate. Google’s use-case for when you might want to use the “incognito” feature is e.g. to keep a surprise gift a secret. As far as Microsoft’s InPrivate mode is concerned, people also speculated it was a “porn mode.”


  • Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar. Mozilla has a project called Prism that aims to do similar (though doing so may train users into accepting non-URL windows as safe or into ignoring the URL, which could increase the effectiveness of phishing attacks).


  • To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites. Google also promises that whatever runs in a tab is sandboxed so that it won’t affect your machine and can be safely closed. Plugins the user installed may escape this security model, Google admits.




This looks like a very interesting project, and I think it can’t hurt to have more competition in the browser area. Google is playing this as nicely as possible by open-sourcing things, with perhaps part of the reason to try to defend against monopoly accusations – after all, Google already owns a lot of what’s happening inside the browser, and some may feel owning a browser too could be a little too much power for a single company (Google could, for instance, release browser features that benefit their sites more than most other sites... as can Microsoft with Internet Explorer). For now, until Chrome is released in a testable version, how much of the speed, stability and user interface promises will be fullfilled – and how much of the interface you’ll be able to configure in case you don’t like it – remains to be seen.



[Images by Google.]



Update: Google now posted on this at their blog, announcing the launch date to be tomorrow, Tuesday.






Update At gears.google.com/chrome/, screenshots of Google Chrome have appeared:





The service’s logo is also shown on that page (it also appears in Google’s official reprint of the comic at Google Books):







Update Google Chrome is available for download now.

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HTML COLOR CODE

About color codes and how to apply

HTML color codes are hexadecimal triplets representing the colors red, green, and blue. For example, in the the color red, the color code is FF0000, which is '255' red, '0' green, and '0' blue.

Major hexadecimal color codes

ColorColor CodeColorColor Code
Red #FF0000White#FFFFFF
Turquoise#00FFFFLight Grey#C0C0C0
Light Blue#0000FFDark Grey#808080
Dark Blue #0000A0Black#000000
Light Purple #FF0080Orange#FF8040
Dark Purple #800080Brown#804000
Yellow#FFFF00Burgundy#800000
Pastel Green#00FF00Forest Green#808000
Pink#FF00FFGrass Green#408080

Color code chart

COLOR NAMECODECOLOR
Black#000000Black
Gray0#150517Gray0
Gray18#250517Gray18
Gray21#2B1B17Gray21
Gray23#302217Gray23
Gray24#302226Gray24
Gray25#342826Gray25
Gray26#34282CGray26
Gray27#382D2CGray27
Gray28#3b3131Gray28
Gray29#3E3535Gray29
Gray30#413839Gray30
Gray31#41383CGray31
Gray32#463E3FGray32
Gray34#4A4344Gray34
Gray35#4C4646Gray35
Gray36#4E4848Gray36
Gray37#504A4BGray37
Gray38#544E4FGray38
Gray39#565051Gray39
Gray40#595454Gray40
Gray41#5C5858Gray41
Gray42#5F5A59Gray42
Gray43#625D5DGray43
Gray44#646060Gray44
Gray45#666362Gray45
Gray46#696565Gray46
Gray47#6D6968Gray47
Gray48#6E6A6BGray48
Gray49#726E6DGray49
Gray50#747170Gray50
Gray#736F6EGray
Slate Gray4#616D7ESlate Gray4
Slate Gray#657383Slate Gray
Light Steel Blue4#646D7ELight Steel Blue4
Light Slate Gray#6D7B8DLight Slate Gray
Cadet Blue4#4C787ECadet Blue4
Dark Slate Gray4#4C7D7EDark Slate Gray4
Thistle4#806D7EThistle4
Medium Slate Blue#5E5A80Medium Slate Blue
Medium Purple4#4E387EMedium Purple4
Midnight Blue#151B54Midnight Blue
Dark Slate Blue#2B3856Dark Slate Blue
Dark Slate Gray#25383CDark Slate Gray
Dim Gray#463E41Dim Gray
Cornflower Blue#151B8DCornflower Blue
Royal Blue4#15317ERoyal Blue4
Slate Blue4#342D7ESlate Blue4
Royal Blue#2B60DERoyal Blue
Royal Blue1#306EFFRoyal Blue1
Royal Blue2#2B65ECRoyal Blue2
Royal Blue3#2554C7Royal Blue3
Deep Sky Blue#3BB9FFDeep Sky Blue
Deep Sky Blue2#38ACECDeep Sky Blue2
Slate Blue#3574EC7Slate Blue
Deep Sky Blue3#3090C7Deep Sky Blue3
Deep Sky Blue4#25587EDeep Sky Blue4
Dodger Blue#1589FFDodger Blue
Dodger Blue2#157DECDodger Blue2
Dodger Blue3#1569C7Dodger Blue3
Dodger Blue4#153E7EDodger Blue4
Steel Blue4#2B547ESteel Blue4
Steel Blue#4863A0Steel Blue
Slate Blue2#6960ECSlate Blue2
Violet#8D38C9Violet
Medium Purple3#7A5DC7Medium Purple3
Medium Purple#8467D7Medium Purple
Medium Purple2#9172ECMedium Purple2
Medium Purple1#9E7BFFMedium Purple1
Light Steel Blue#728FCELight Steel Blue
Steel Blue3#488AC7Steel Blue3
Steel Blue2#56A5ECSteel Blue2
Steel Blue1#5CB3FFSteel Blue1
Sky Blue3#659EC7Sky Blue3
Sky Blue4#41627ESky Blue4
Slate Blue#737CA1Slate Blue
Slate Blue#737CA1Slate Blue
Slate Gray3#98AFC7Slate Gray3
Violet Red#F6358AViolet Red
Violet Red1#F6358AViolet Red1
Violet Red2#E4317FViolet Red2
Deep Pink#F52887Deep Pink
Deep Pink2#E4287CDeep Pink2
Deep Pink3#C12267Deep Pink3
Deep Pink4#7D053FDeep Pink4
Medium Violet Red#CA226BMedium Violet Red
Violet Red3#C12869Violet Red3
Firebrick#800517Firebrick
Violet Red4#7D0541Violet Red4
Maroon4#7D0552Maroon4
Maroon#810541Maroon
Maroon3#C12283Maroon3
Maroon2#E3319DMaroon2
Maroon1#F535AAMaroon1
Magenta#FF00FFMagenta
Magenta1#F433FFMagenta1
Magenta2#E238ECMagenta2
Magenta3#C031C7Magenta3
Medium Orchid#B048B5Medium Orchid
Medium Orchid1#D462FFMedium Orchid1
Medium Orchid2#C45AECMedium Orchid2
Medium Orchid3#A74AC7Medium Orchid3
Medium Orchid4#6A287EMedium Orchid4
Purple#8E35EFPurple
Purple1#893BFFPurple1
Purple2#7F38ECPurple2
Purple3#6C2DC7Purple3
Purple4#461B7EPurple4
Dark Orchid4#571B7eDark Orchid4
Dark Orchid#7D1B7EDark Orchid
Dark Violet#842DCEDark Violet
Dark Orchid3#8B31C7Dark Orchid3
Dark Orchid2#A23BECDark Orchid2
Dark Orchid1#B041FFDark Orchid1
Plum4#7E587EPlum4
Pale Violet Red#D16587Pale Violet Red
Pale Violet Red1#F778A1Pale Violet Red1
Pale Violet Red2#E56E94Pale Violet Red2
Pale Violet Red3#C25A7CPale Violet Red3
Pale Violet Red4#7E354DPale Violet Red4
Plum#B93B8FPlum
Plum1#F9B7FFPlum1
Plum2#E6A9ECPlum2
Plum3#C38EC7Plum3
Thistle#D2B9D3Thistle
Thistle3#C6AEC7Thistle3
Lavendar Blush2#EBDDE2Lavender Blush2
Lavendar Blush3#C8BBBELavender Blush3
Thistle2#E9CFECThistle2
Thistle1#FCDFFFThistle1
Lavendar#E3E4FALavender
Lavendar Blush#FDEEF4Lavender Blush
Light Steel Blue1#C6DEFFLight Steel Blue1
Light Blue#ADDFFFLight Blue
Light Blue1#BDEDFFLight Blue1
Light Cyan#E0FFFFLight Cyan
Slate Gray1#C2DFFFSlate Gray1
Slate Gray2#B4CFECSlate Gray2
Light Steel Blue2#B7CEECLight Steel Blue2
Turquoise1#52F3FFTurquoise1
Cyan#00FFFFCyan
Cyan1#57FEFFCyan1
Cyan2#50EBECCyan2
Turquoise2#4EE2ECTurquoise2
Medium Turquoise#48CCCDMedium Turquoise
Turquoise#43C6DBTurquoise
Dark Slate Gray1#9AFEFFDark Slate Gray1
Dark Slate Gray2#8EEBECDark slate Gray2
Dark Slate Gray3#78c7c7Dark Slate Gray3
Cyan3#46C7C7Cyan3
Turquoise3#43BFC7Turquoise3
Cadet Blue3#77BFC7Cadet Blue3
Pale Turquoise3#92C7C7Pale Turquoise3
Light Blue2#AFDCECLight Blue2
Dark Turquoise#3B9C9CDark Turquoise
Cyan4#307D7ECyan4
Light Sea Green#3EA99FLight Sea Green
Light Sky Blue#82CAFALight Sky Blue
Light Sky Blue2#A0CFECLight Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue3#87AFC7Light Sky Blue3
Sky Blue#82CAFFSky Blue
Sky Blue2#79BAECSky Blue2
Light Sky Blue4#566D7ELight Sky Blue4
Sky Blue#6698FFSky Blue
Light Slate Blue#736AFFLight Slate Blue
Light Cyan2#CFECECLight Cyan2
Light Cyan3#AFC7C7Light Cyan3
Light Cyan4#717D7DLight Cyan4
Light Blue3#95B9C7Light Blue3
Light Blue4#5E767ELight Blue4
Pale Turquoise4#5E7D7EPale Turquoise4
Dark Sea Green4#617C58Dark Sea Green4
Medium Aquamarine#348781Medium Aquamarine
Medium Sea Green#306754Medium Sea Green
Sea Green#4E8975Sea Green
Dark Green#254117Dark Green
Sea Green4#387C44Sea Green4
Forest Green#4E9258Forest Green
Medium Forest Green#347235Medium Forest Green
Spring Green4#347C2CSpring Green4
Dark Olive Green4#667C26Dark Olive Green4
Chartreuse4#437C17Chartreuse4
Green4#347C17Green4
Medium Spring Green#348017Medium Spring Green
Spring Green#4AA02CSpring Green
Lime Green#41A317Lime Green
Spring Green#4AA02CSpring Green
Dark Sea Green#8BB381Dark Sea Green
Dark Sea Green3#99C68EDark Sea Green3
Green3#4CC417Green3
Chartreuse3#6CC417Chartreuse3
Yellow Green#52D017Yellow Green
Spring Green3#4CC552Spring Green3
Sea Green3#54C571Sea Green3
Spring Green2#57E964Spring Green2
Spring Green1#5EFB6ESpring Green1
Sea Green2#64E986Sea Green2
Sea Green1#6AFB92Sea Green1
Dark Sea Green2#B5EAAADark Sea Green2
Dark Sea Green1#C3FDB8Dark Sea Green1
Green#00FF00Green
Lawn Green#87F717Lawn Green
Green1#5FFB17Green1
Green2#59E817Green2
Chartreuse2#7FE817Chartreuse2
Chartreuse#8AFB17Chartreuse
Green Yellow#B1FB17Green Yellow
Dark Olive Green1#CCFB5DDark Olive Green1
Dark Olive Green2#BCE954Dark Olive Green2
Dark Olive Green3#A0C544Dark Olive Green3
Yellow#FFFF00Yellow
Yellow1#FFFC17Yellow1
Khaki1#FFF380Khaki1
Khaki2#EDE275Khaki2
Goldenrod#EDDA74Goldenrod
Gold2#EAC117Gold2
Gold1#FDD017Gold1
Goldenrod1#FBB917Goldenrod1
Goldenrod2#E9AB17Goldenrod2
Gold#D4A017Gold
Gold3#C7A317Gold3
Goldenrod3#C68E17Goldenrod3
Dark Goldenrod#AF7817Dark Goldenrod
Khaki#ADA96EKhaki
Khaki3#C9BE62Khaki3
Khaki4#827839Khaki4
Dark Goldenrod1#FBB117Dark Goldenrod1
Dark Goldenrod2#E8A317Dark Goldenrod2
Dark Goldenrod3#C58917Dark Goldenrod3
Sienna1#F87431Sienna1
Sienna2#E66C2CSienna2
Dark Orange#F88017Dark Orange
Dark Orange1#F87217Dark Orange1
Dark Orange2#E56717Dark Orange2
Dark Orange3#C35617Dark Orange3
Sienna3#C35817Sienna3
Sienna#8A4117Sienna
Sienna4#7E3517Sienna4
Indian Red4#7E2217Indian Red4
Dark Orange3#7E3117Dark Orange3
Salmon4#7E3817Salmon4
Dark Goldenrod4#7F5217Dark Goldenrod4
Gold4#806517Gold4
Goldenrod4#805817Goldenrod4
Light Salmon4#7F462CLight Salmon4
Chocolate#C85A17Chocolate
Coral3#C34A2CCoral3
Coral2#E55B3CCoral2
Coral#F76541Coral
Dark Salmon#E18B6BDark Salmon
Salmon1#F88158Pale Turquoise4
Salmon2#E67451Salmon2
Salmon3#C36241Salmon3
Light Salmon3#C47451Light Salmon3
Light Salmon2#E78A61Light Salmon2
Light Salmon#F9966BLight Salmon
Sandy Brown#EE9A4DSandy Brown
Hot Pink#F660ABHot Pink
Hot Pink1#F665ABHot Pink1
Hot Pink2#E45E9DHot Pink2
Hot Pink3#C25283Hot Pink3
Hot Pink4#7D2252Hot Pink4
Light Coral#E77471Light Coral
Indian Red1#F75D59Indian Red1
Indian Red2#E55451Indian Red2
Indian Red3#C24641Indian Red3
Red#FF0000Red
Red1#F62217Red1
Red2#E41B17Red2
Firebrick1#F62817Firebrick1
Firebrick2#E42217Firebrick2
Firebrick3#C11B17Firebrick3
Pink#FAAFBEPink
Rosy Brown1#FBBBB9Rosy Brown1
Rosy Brown2#E8ADAARosy Brown2
Pink2#E7A1B0Pink2
Light Pink#FAAFBALight Pink
Light Pink1#F9A7B0Light Pink1
Light Pink2#E799A3Light Pink2
Pink3#C48793Pink3
Rosy Brown3#C5908ERosy Brown3
Rosy Brown#B38481Rosy Brown
Light Pink3#C48189Light Pink3
Rosy Brown4#7F5A58Rosy Brown4
Light Pink4#7F4E52Light Pink4
Pink4#7F525DPink4
Lavendar Blush4#817679Lavendar Blush4
Light Goldenrod4#817339Light Goldenrod4
Lemon Chiffon4#827B60Lemon Chiffon4
Lemon Chiffon3#C9C299Lemon Chiffon3
Light Goldenrod3#C8B560Light Goldenrod3
Light Golden2#ECD672Light Golden2
Light Goldenrod#ECD872Light Goldenrod
Light Goldenrod1#FFE87CLight Goldenrod1
Lemon Chiffon2#ECE5B6Lemon Chiffon2
Lemon Chiffon#FFF8C6Lemon Chiffon
Light Goldenrod Yellow#FAF8CCLight Goldenrod Yellow
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