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OK, so I somehow managed to fix the issue I had with my image showing up in IE. After scouring internet forums, I discovered that this is a common issue with IE users, and there are multiple potential issues at work. I made sure of a few common ones first, which solve the problem completely for most people. Those issues are the following:

1. Make sure that your permissions settings in your ftp folder are set correctly. Not only does the folder that contains your images (such as “wp-content” or “images” or wherever your images are stored) but also the image itself needs to be set to 755.
2. Make sure all of your images are RGB and not CMYK. (This seemed to be the issue for one guy and it resolved his problem.)
3. Make sure that your image is the appropriate dimensions for your sidebar in IE (or wherever else it is displayed).

Now, I first fixed all of these, but I was still frustrated to see that my image was not showing up. So, I played with the code itself in my Text Widget. Now, keep in mind that my images have always appeared just fine using Firefox. I first tried removing the code I placed at the beginning to link the image to one of my pages. After doing that, my image magically appeared in IE. I was still a little surprised that the link would be the issue as I have a linked images using the same code (or so I thought) in my blogspot blog. So, I copied the code from my blogspot blog image, and found that it has an extra /> immediately before the closing </a>.

Finally, success at last! When I edited the code, I was able to put a working link back into my image code and it appears just fine in both IE and Firefox. Apparently the problem had something to do with how my blogspot blog transformed the code in a way that IE understands. So, if you are having this issue, simply copy and paste code from an existing, working image and just replace the urls. If you don’t have one to do that with, try the above mentioned techniques as well as the extra code snippet I also mentioned above, and you should be set.

As a note, your permissions will definitely need to be set correctly regardless in order to view your images. Now I just need to figure out how to fix the couple of images that are not showing up in my Gallery. I’m hoping a simple delete and re-upload will fix those issues.

Please let me know if this post was a help or if you have other related questions.

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