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Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 01, 2003, 10:52:00 PM: Wondering if any of you know of any good free sites where a person can upload their screenshots to.

--thanks in advance
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 12:06:26 AM: if you have an FTP program you can use http://www.netfirms.com. Sign up there and then upload your images via FTP. The other day they made it so you have to have the images on your website if you want to direct link them, so make a index.htm file with all of the images you want like so:
, and upload the index.htm. Then you're able to hotlink them. Sorry if I'm a little vague, I'm tired. Reply if you still need some help and I'll get back to ya.
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 12:23:00 AM: I know nothing about ftp's lol
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 11:19:43 AM: Ok well FTP's are used to transfer files. I use http://www.smartFTP.com and I find it works the best. Once you set up a netfirms account you can connect to the FTP address they provided you and begin uploading files. There are probably some help files on the website on how to use smart FTP. Best to learn how to use them now, than when you really need them :).
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 12:09:21 PM: thank you
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 12:54:36 PM: I uploaded some files to my WWW folder but i'm not sure how to link em. And when i go to my site's address it says : Welcome to the new website of tailgunr. so... did i do something wrong if not how do i link my files....er find their url lol.
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 03:13:54 PM: Ok, good. You should have an address something like mine: http://www.xnachox.netfirms.com. Now if i want to link and image it would be http://www.xnachox.netfirms.com/(image name).jpg. Remember everything is case sensitive. You're going to have to set up and index.htm file and upload it so that your images are displayed on the site instead of the "Welcome to.....". I'll upload mine and you just put the name of the picture where it says. . Once you upload the index.htm file so the pictures are displayed on the main site it will allow you to hotlink them. I hope you understad. I'm not very good at explaining this stuff :)

edit: the reason you need an index.htm now is because they want to stop people from stealing bandwidth by just hotlinking. This is the simplist way to get around it :)
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 08:01:06 PM: ALlright i put your index folder into my site. It's right with the screenshots. I copied the screenshots url's and pasted them to the html code in that index file then i saved it. But ... i go to the website and it shows red X's and the URL of the red X's are---
http://www.(your%20account).netfirms.com/.jpg
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 08:11:20 PM: hmm maybe it matters what folder my screenshots are in? They are in the www folder
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 08:18:59 PM: the www folder is fine.

The (your account) was meant to be replaced by the you signed up with, and you put the name of the picture before .jpg. Edit the index.htm file like that and then re-upload it. Now your images should display on the site like this: http://www.xnachox.netfirms.com
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 08:54:43 PM: i have it set up like that and it wont work :(
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 08:58:08 PM: I dragged and droped that index file from the .zip window into the WWW folder.......then i said VIEW the index file.. I made the changes and saved but then when i go to my website they show that "youraccount.netfirms"
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 09:11:16 PM: this image dedicated to XNACHOX
(http://www.tailgunr.netfirms.com/6.jpg)
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 09:25:57 PM: dont work :(
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 10:31:48 PM: no no. before you upload it, right click on the .htm file and open with >> notepad. Edit it that way. Sorry for not explaining that earlier :) I knew I had forgot something.

edit: after you're done editing it, zip it up and post it here and I'll give it a look over.
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 10:51:10 PM: the photo's show up on the website just not on these forums
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 02, 2003, 11:23:43 PM: what's your website's address?
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 11:49:03 PM: http://www.tailgunr.netfirms.com/
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 02, 2003, 11:51:58 PM: dont work on the site but i'll make an attachment --- this is my desktop background
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 03, 2003, 12:32:20 AM: It works fine buddy. just put *IMG*http://www.tailgunr.netfirms.com/1.jpg*/IMG* replace * with [ and ] respectively

edit: Might want to work on your bmp compression. download the gimp: http://www.gimp.org/download.html

(http://www.tailgunr.netfirms.com/1.jpg)
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: TAILGUNNR on March 03, 2003, 12:36:40 PM: yeah i know that was just saying pics arent showing for somereason :P
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: XNachoX on March 03, 2003, 01:07:53 PM: I dunno...you may have to copy/paste the link into the bar. I see the pics after i visited your site.
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: Meatwad on March 04, 2003, 08:01:49 PM: You and that Mossie Tailgunr LOL
Title: A site to upload screenshots
Post by: dracon on March 05, 2003, 08:21:13 PM: You guys are working too hard!! Go to http://www.pbase.com

It's free, it's easy, it has it's own upload utility, NO ads. I use it for my digital pics. Here's a coupla of my life-long dream come true!! http://www.pbase.com/decon/decon_2 No not a woman, I married her 33+ years ago :)