I took the site down for a few minutes this afternoon to clean up the database. We were getting some errors uploading userpics that I think was caused by the database indexes being crashed. It's all clean now and everything should be working.
I'm afraid I'm a hopeless case. I don't even know how to zip a file! And all of my icons were on my laptop which is now dead. So I would need to resave them, I guess. I figured it would be easier to just use the URL thingy, but it's not working. What do you think?
I would really strongly recommend using the icon uploader. Most if not all computers have some sort of unzip capability. All you'd have to do is put your icons in the folder and input your name and password. No one is a hopeless case, you just haven't had someone explain it properly yet.
Just right click on the folder once you have them saved and choose the 'send to' option. It will say 'send to compressed (zipped) folder. Then you can upload the zipped to yousendit and post the link for me.
Unless you have a MAC and then I've no idea, but if you don't this should work.
However, if you wanted to use the icon uploader yourself, just download the IJ version and open the file. Click on it, extract all files. It will show a few different ones. Now open the picture folder and drag each individual file into it (or copy and paste). Hit the UPL folder and then put in the info it asks for.
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Unless you have a MAC and then I've no idea, but if you don't this should work.
However, if you wanted to use the icon uploader yourself, just download the IJ version and open the file. Click on it, extract all files. It will show a few different ones. Now open the picture folder and drag each individual file into it (or copy and paste). Hit the UPL folder and then put in the info it asks for.