Squidoo Tips - How to Upload and Post an Image Online

1. You should have already saved the image to your hard drive (your computer).


2. You need to upload that image from your hard drive to where you host your images; such as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or an on-line image hosting site.


3. You need to know what the URL properties of your image are.

1. The html code to post an image is <img src="URL of your image">


2. As an example, if you right click on the tiger image below and click on "Properties"



You will see on the pop up Properties box what the Address (URL) of this image is

http://www.awelldressedbullet.ca/tiger.gif


3. To post this image, I would type the following HTML Coding
   
   

   <img src="http://www.awelldressedbullet.ca/tiger.gif">

For those using Photobucket, it is even easier. No offense to Flickr, I've just been with Photobucket for years. :-)

You just have to copy the Tag line which is below the image you have uploaded already to Photobucket.

If you Left Click your cursor anywhere within the Tag line, it will highlight the entire line.

Keep your cursor in the highlighted area, Right Click and select Copy.  You have now copied the entire line (html coding and all) required to post this image.

You now only have to Right Click and Paste it where ever you want the image to show, such as your lens.



Tip: If you want to post an image on the SquidU Forum, you would copy and paste the IMG Code line

Direct Linking, also known as hot linking, is the unauthorized use of someone else's bandwidth.

If you copy and post the URL of an image from another site and post it directly (rather than saving the image to your own hard drive and uploading it to your own image hosting site) you are direct linking.

By doing this, your are using that person's bandwidth, and if done too often can cause their site to exceed their limit and be taken down temporarily or crash.

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