Hi! My site is www.alpicam.it (under construction)It's a weather-cams' network website, it's made with Joomla 1.5, and I'm trying to use K2 in order to collect, organize and show the webcams.I've got a question.From K2's admin panel, is it possible to use, as one item's image, a picture which is on the web? I mean... I'd like to use an image without uploading it on my website (just putting its url, because it will be a webcam which is hosted on another server), but I don't think it's possible by default. How can I do it?Thank you in advance.

By the way, my goal is to find a way in order to:

1) show the previews (with thumbs) of all one category's webcams;
2) get one webcam's extended view (with large image), by clicking on the preview.

In my website you can find something like that that I tried to do using another Joomla's component, but now I'm testing K2 and I'm pretty sure that it may do it better. Anyway, have a look to here:

www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_sobi2&catid=3&It...

Do you see the thumbnails at the bottom of the page? That thumbnails lead to a webcam's extended view. But that images are not uploaded on my website, they're just on the Internet.

I've partly solved the issue, with this trick: I put a resized picture (250 x 188 px) of a webcam in one item's main field. This picture is "the thumbnail". After the picture I put a "read more" line, and then I put the same picture, but in a larger size (500 x 375 px). Then I set my website in order to show the first picture only in the category previews, but not in the detailed item's page, so basically the result is this:

Category previews:

www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&amp...

Detailed item:

www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=...


NOW, I HAVE ANOTHER NEW PROBLEM. If you click on a webcam's picture (no matter where you do it), you will notice a lightbox effect that I decided to use in order to get a "cooler" way to show the webcams in their original size. It's this "JCEPOPUP" plugin: www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/mediabox. Do you know it? So, this is the code that I put in an item's the main field:

&lt;a class="jcepopup" href="www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"><img height="188" width="250" src="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"/><br/></a>; <hr id="system-readmore"/><a class="jcepopup" href="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"><img height="375" width="500" src="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"/></a>​

Well, the problem is that I think that this plugin, some way, conflicts with my website's code (template's css? I'm not an expert, I really don't know). In fact, my template go nuts, putting some ugly extra-icons I don't want in the preview's items. And if you click on them you'll see the webcam in the original size. Have a look at these two screenshots:

1) My website using Safari browser: img17.imageshack.us/img17/5601/immagine1wk.png

2) My website using Firefox for Mac: img27.imageshack.us/img27/6678/immagine2xr.png

What is this? PLEASE HELP ME, how can I solve it?

Another thing: NOW, the detailed item is simply perfect: www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1:rovereto-tn-san-giorgio&Itemid=147

The menu is correctly positioned on the right column. BUT, have a look at here:

www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=4:vallagarina&Itemid=147

Here the menu is at the bottom of the page, just above the read footer. WHY? And have you seen the three little modules' titles in the red footer? Spot the difference watching link one and link two. K2 is amazing but it's driving me crazy :(

Alpicam.it said:NOW, I HAVE ANOTHER NEW PROBLEM. If you click on a webcam's picture (no matter where you do it), you will notice a lightbox effect that I decided to use in order to get a "cooler" way to show the webcams in their original size. It's this "JCEPOPUP" plugin: www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/mediabox. Do you know it? So, this is the code that I put in an item's the main field:
&lt;a class="jcepopup" href="www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"><img height="188" width="250" src="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"/><br/></a>; <hr id="system-readmore"/><a class="jcepopup" href="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"><img height="375" width="500" src="/www.meteosarth.it/images/mobotix.jpg"/></a>​

Well, the problem is that I think that this plugin, some way, conflicts with my website's code (template's css? I'm not an expert, I really don't know). In fact, my template go nuts, putting some ugly extra-icons I don't want in the preview's items. And if you click on them you'll see the webcam in the original size. Have a look at these two screenshots:

1) My website using Safari browser: img17.imageshack.us/img17/5601/immagine1wk.png

2) My website using Firefox for Mac: img27.imageshack.us/img27/6678/immagine2xr.png

What is this? PLEASE HELP ME, how can I solve it?

THIS PART HAS BEEN SOLVED (I CLEANED MY JOOMLA'S PLUGIN FOLDER AND RE-INSTALLED JCEPOPUP). PLEASE ANSWER MY LAST QUESTION.

Alpicam.it said:Another thing: NOW, the detailed item is simply perfect: www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=... The menu is correctly positioned on the right column. BUT, have a look at here:

www.alpicam.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&amp...

Here the menu is at the bottom of the page, just above the read footer. WHY? And have you seen the three little modules' titles in the red footer? Spot the difference watching link one and link two. K2 is amazing but it's driving me crazy :(


Solved: Don't ask me why (actually, if you know the answer please tell me then) but the template went crazy just because I did not fill a field: the alternative text for the two webcam's images. That's all! Solved.

BTW, thank you guys ;)