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picture hosting

woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
I have some pics I'd like to post, but need a hosting service. Any recomendations?

Woods

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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does anybody know where a person could go to get free picture hosting? I found someplace, but they want a paypal account number. Needless to say, I don't have one. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you dont have a site, here is a good, and simple one to use.

    http://www.villagephotos.com/index.asp

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I dont know who your server for your computer is, but, most allow you a web page of your own. EARTHLINK for example, I use mine to store pics in and transfer them to what ever site I want. Other sites charge ya to store pics.

    LR Send me the pics via Email and I will post em for ya.
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think Thesupermonkey has graciously offered the use of his site for free hosting to GB users who want to post on this site. You might check with him.

    Hey, why doesn't GB offer hosting services for posting pics? You'd think that would be a big help to the sellers (as well as over here on the forums).
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think GB does allow you to upload pics for auctions I think but not for the forum and there is a fee for uploading the pics. But if they do allow you to upload for an auction I know a way to get the pic over here also.



    Edited by - 7mm nut on 06/04/2002 13:44:29
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  • adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    AllOutdoors.com died over a year ago. I hear they ran out of money.

    We offer picture hosting for the auction site but there is nothing similar for the forums. Most ISPs give you a free home page with 10 or 20 megs of disk space. You can host your pictures there.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Admin- your information is incorrect I think ... I've been using them for over a year ... and am still! Look here: http://gallery.alloutdoorschat.com/main.html

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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Picture Posting 101

    Go Here
    www.eonline.netfirms.com/upload.html

    Username : guest
    Password : guest

    Once you've uploaded your picture use the following line in your post.




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  • COWBOYKIDDCOWBOYKIDD Member Posts: 239 ✭
    edited November -1
    Admin.. Ya know thats an idea GB should pursue. Let members have an alotted amout of webspace. Look at all the revenue you would gain by advertising such.
    On the other hand ya probably wouldnt want to??

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    woodsrunner;Here is a host for pics, after you register, they allow about 20 pics for free. After that many you have to pay. It also has a html practice page. It helps if you want to practice or see if the pics will come out right.http://www.ranchoweb.com/Here is a pic I host there.Or you can use thesupermonkey's site.

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    www.PixHost.com specializes in simple-to-use picture hosting services for auctions, but they charge 50 cents apiece for the privilege. Still, if you want to check them out and look over their tutorials you might get some free advice without having to sign up.

    The trouble with using free sites is that they do go out of business from time to time. I had a fairly large web site built up on Disney's Go.com, and darned if they didn't suddenly go belly up. Usually that means that you lose everything unless you have it backed up on your computer. For the computer nerds amongst us, if you need a backup copy of your web site, by the way, there is a great free utility called Superbot you can get from places like download.com that will download the entire contents of a web site, including the files in sub-folders, to your computer, so you can save the site and publish it elsewhere if you ever have to.

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just signed up at alloutdoors and created a couple pages.

    http://gallery.alloutdoorschat.com/offeror/index.html

    It does work well and is simple to use, and loads a lot faster than that stupid Netscape site I've been saddled with. As long as you keep deleting pictures when you don't need them anymore, 30 pics should be plenty for a lot of us sellers to use for auctions. Thanks for the tip.

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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ?!?!?

    I don't get it?
    As I said before, I setup a site EXCUSIVELY for picture hosting.
    Load as many as you want...

    Guess my post must be comin' up invisible or something...

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    supermonkey --
    I tried your guest/guest site too, and it's very handy. I may need something a little bigger than a 24k limit from time to time, is all. Thanks a lot for the effort.

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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    24k limit?
    I believe I set the limit to 2.4m not 24k!
    You'll be hard pressed to find a 2.4m jpeg!


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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the info guys. I found my problem, I was trying to upload a scanned pic that was a bmp file and way too big to fit on my webpage with a 2mb limit. I'm gonna rescan it as a jpg and see what happens.

    Woods

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    woods --
    You can also make files smaller by choosing the amount of compression for your JPEGS, usually by selecting high, medium, or low, or some such thing. Medium is usually plenty good enough.

    Also, by first reducing the number of colors in your pictures to 256 instead of 16 million, they will become smaller files, so that when you save them as jpegs they will be smaller still.

    Software like PhotoShop even has a command "Save for web" which automates the whole process.

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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Monkey,Thanks for your efforts. Some of us lower primates need all the help we can get.

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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    ^ for ameriskin and whoever else needs the info.
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