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How can I upload pictures?

need to get rid of hot links

         

turtlehurricane

1:58 am on May 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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could i please have some information on how to upload image files to a website instead of using hot links for images?

eelixduppy

2:28 am on May 24, 2006 (gmt 0)



Do you mean uploading them onto your server and then using them as a source in an image tag? If this is the case then you can use a FTP client or an application that your host may for you. If this is not what you want, please elaborate...

turtlehurricane

2:44 am on May 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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thank you, thats what i meant. i had a feeling it had something to do with ftp.

TechnoGeek

3:10 am on May 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hello, turtlehurricane.
Generally speaking, all the material that you will use to build your website must be uploaded using FTP. FTP is just a protocol to transfer files from your computer to the server where it is hosted your website. To display an image, you may use an ordinary HTTP link

<img src="http://mysite.com/images/pretty.gif">

In instead of displaying the image, you want that the user to download it, then you must use some kind of FTP link, but that is another story.