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ingie01 wrote:I would like to know how to post work in my topics area. Are there instructions for this? Thanks in advance.......

what do you mean by "topics area"?

you just have to upload your pictures (.jpg or .png files) somewhere on the net,
(on your own ftp room, or on any one of the many free existing hoster sites),
then enter the link in your post by using the "Insert Image" button.
[img]your_Image_link[/img]

ZigOtto wrote:you just have to upload your pictures (.jpg or .png files) somewhere on the net,
(on your own ftp room, or on any one of the many free existing hoster sites),
then enter the link in your post by using the "Insert Image" button.
[img]your_Image_link[/img]

What's a good somewhere on the net? What can you recommend, sir?

hisko wrote:

ZigOtto wrote:you just have to upload your pictures (.jpg or .png files) somewhere on the net,
(on your own ftp room, or on any one of the many free existing hoster sites),
then enter the link in your post by using the "Insert Image" button.
[img]your_Image_link[/img]

What's a good somewhere on the net? What can you recommend, sir?

blogger.com - you can create a blog of your own, and each image you upload can be linked.
picasaweb.com - if you have a Gmail account, you get big webspace to upload pictures, and you can use Picasa (software for organizing albums and uploading them)
Flickr.com - one of the most popular image hosting websites

hisko wrote: What's a good somewhere on the net? What can you recommend, sir?

some links to help you to choose in this jungle :

http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-file-hosting.php

http://pcbackupreview.com/free-file-hosting.php

http://www.killerstartups.com/tag/file-hosting/

personally, I use FileDen for 2 or 3 years now, I suppose it's far to be the best,
(sometimes, you have to skip Advs, Free having somehow a cost),
but it does the job, and I'm to lazy to change and try others,
(they are tooooooo many, and new ones are poping up every day ...)

Thanks, I'll try that.

But hisko, you have your own website.
Don't you have some spare webspace on the server you're hosting it on?
even if you have only 50mb, it's enough to upload quite a few jpgs to keep you going for a while.
you can easily do it via ftp.

That's exactly what I do and use Smart FTP software:
http://www.smartftp.com/

my provider offers me 1Go of files storage space,
and I use it via the freeware FileZilla to transfert files and manage them.
but I reserve this space for my professional exchange only,
and I use my FileDen hosting count for any other "secondary" purposes.

And there's FireFTP, a free, FTP Client plugin for Firefox, too.

Sven

Svengali wrote:And there's FireFTP, a free, FTP Client plugin for Firefox, too.

Sven

Hmmmm... food for thought...

Paul Fierlinger wrote:

Svengali wrote:And there's FireFTP, a free, FTP Client plugin for Firefox, too.

Sven

Hmmmm... food for thought...

Paul didn't you have Dopus?
it has integrated FTP functionality, which allows you to upload stuff by draging files in your filebrouwser

Funny, I've been thinking about this ever since I posted that. By using DOPUS for years now, I've been probably having free service without even realizing it and all this time paying contributions to SmartFTP. Actually, just recently I had my entire C drive rebuilt and never even reinstalled SmartFTP -- live and learn.

a couple of (not finished) images from a children book I'm illustrating.
These are large format double-page drawings.
there are 25 spreads like these in the book.

beautiful