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Image Hosting
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As there is a bunch of very dodgy imagehosting sits out there here is a quick list of the decent ones:
http://www.Imageshack.us
Single Click hosting, resizing and also provides thumbnails.http://www.Photobucket.com
Offers an album feature multiple uploads and tagging system.http://www.Flickr.com
Is becoming very popular due to its flashy interface and community athmosphere.
Free verion has a very small upload limit and paid for “pro” version is slightly costly for the upload provided.
Good if you dont plan to upload many images and has a lovely interface.If possible try to use one of these three.
There are a number of very dodgy hosting sites out there.http://www.imagedump.com – spyware infested and nastly pics
http://www.postimage.org – slow ads supported site that sends not very nice info requests (I know a few people here use this Id very much reccomend you dont!!)and many many others.
The two I reccomended are both fast and safe.
Happy Shooting And Hosting.
JayOf course, you can always use Flickr as well. 20MB upload limit every month, so not great, but incredibly fast. And the $20/year upgrade to pro is pretty worth it, in my opinion.
For 20$ a year, you’re almost in the range of being able to pay for your own domain/hosting, which although may take a little more effort in setting up, gives you a WHOLE lot more flexibility. I think the free hosting sites are superb, but when you have to start paying for their upgraded membership, I can’t see why people wouldn’t just opt to get their own websites. Even if you don’t have index pages, you can use them as simple image hosting services.
For $20/year on a hosting/domain plan, you wouldn’t really get the bandwidth that you get with Flickr. I guess it depends on what you want to use your hosting for – personally, I’m using Flickr not only to do image hosting for posting up on the boards here, but also for the forum interaction (free, of course) and as an offsite backup. I’ve come very close to hitting my 2GB upload limit on numerous occasions :)
Flickr rocks and not just because it’s a community. Sure you could do your own hosting, but writing a commenting/interaction interface too? Getting your site out in the world? Flickr has probably millions of members by now, probably in every country in the world.
I would say the same for Dev art too
good community spirit going on there – forums, chatrooms a fine art print service and members absolutely everywhere too.
I am coming to the conclusion that I might end up with two sites :
(a) My own hosted one – using something like JAlbum to build the galleries.
Only issue here is that it’s harder to limit access and password protect certain galleries,
without a lot of programming (which I don’t know how to do – yet !)and
(b) One of the better ones like Flickr (or Smugmug, Pbase etc)
for my more general photos. Easier sharing and navigation for people who
are less Internet-savvy. Would use this more for “people shots” etc.For those of you using Flickr and Firefox, I’ve created a greasemonkey script that makes it tremendously easy to post images in these forums (and any other forums that support BBCode). Here’s how it works (presuming you use firefox – no IE support):
1. Install Greasemonkey from here
2. Restart Firefox
3. Install the script from here (click on “Install this script”)You’re done! Now, whenever you go to the All Sizes page for an image, you should have an extra textbox below the HTML box that has BBCode in it to display an image (of the current size) and link back to the photo page as well, as per Flickr’s guidelines.
Well, I couldn’t help but notice that Flickr conveniently left it out, and other hosting providers do it, so why not just add it in with a handy dandy GM script? :)
Sorry! If there’s a greasemonkey equivalent for IE, I don’t know what it is. :)
I use pBase… never had any problems with it and it has many options… it also probably has the biggest online audience if thats what matters to you…! 23 Dollars a year for 400mb’s… I think its decent enough…!
Richie
shrapnel wrote:
what about us poor explorer users??? :D
I have the solution for you!
http://www.getfirefox.com
Its the coolest fix for IE ever!
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