remote linking to images?

[c q]

umm...

now that i am at it... i was curious if there were any providers that allow remote linking of images. as in... say i have my images uploaded in www.site1.com/image.jpg

and my homepage is www.site2.com
can i use image.jpg from site1.com as a background in site2.com?

obviously it depends on the permissions site1.com has given. is there any FREE site which does give such permissions?

[qwertyuiop]

how about photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com/)?

[mlseim]

You can display images from any other site on your webpage by
addressing the image as you have described.
Example:
<img src="http://www.mysite2.com/backgr.jpg">

This practice is called "bandwidth stealing", and is not recommended.

Each time your website is displayed/refreshed, it actually takes bandwidth
away from the "other" site to access and download the image.

Why not just "right-click, save-as" the image and upload it into your
OWN website? You can do that with background images too.

summary: only display images from your own web disk space.

[c q]

hmm... not exactly bandwidth stealing pal. i am trying to upload a template for my blog, which is why i need remote linking.

and if i have my own website (--> which is why i want to know abt providers<--) where i put my images and remote link them, i am technically, stealing my own bandwidth... does anyone have any prob with that ;)

cheerio

[mlseim]

I guess I don't know what "remote linking" is ...

If you're displaying images from your own disk storage, from your
own web host, I don't know where the "remote" comes in.
To me, the word "remote" implies 'someplace else', as in another
server.

... sorry, I was just trying to help.

[Morgoth]

What c q wants to do is have one website to host his text and have people vist, but he might not have enough room to host a background for his website.

So what c q wants to do is link a picture from some other webspace he has an account with, and allow his website to have a background picture.

I am not sure of any hosts that do that other than free picture hosts like photobucket or something like it. you can google search this sort of thing (http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=free+picture+hosting).

I hope that clears everything up.

[oracleguy]

Usually free sites don't allow this because you could do exactly what you are trying to do in order to get more space.