Free image hosting for website - storing photos for your website & blog
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Review of free website image tool by Fione Tan, head internet marketing coach
Free image hosting are one of the most popular topics for web design as well as for blog owners. If you have your own web hosting space, then you can host your images and photos in the same web hosting space as well.
If using free blog softwares or blogging platforms like blogger or wordpress, you can also host your images in their free blog account as well. However, the free image hosting space given is rather limited.
Here we take a look at some of the popular image hosting services available on the Internet.
1. Flickr - owned by Yahoo!
- free version allows you to host unlimited images (in lower quality) and display up to 200 recent photos in this account. There is a limit in the number of images you can upload each month.
- you can upgrade to the Pro Account for US$24.95 per year to store unlimited high resolution images online
- you can see a sample of the paid image hosting upgraded version at http://www.flickr.com/photos/internetmarketing where i can create unlimited sets such as 1 set of images for my travel to korea, another set for internet marketing images and then another set for my shopping best buy items.
2. Photobucket
- allows you to host images / photos as well as videos in one account itself
- sample is like http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg248/eonenet/
How do you proceed to host your images for free? First, go to the websites above and create your free account. In your free account, you can upload the images from your PC/Laptop and then these images can be viewed online.
On the webpage that displays your images, right click the image file and you will find the url of that image. Copy that file name / url and then paste this into your own blog when you are creating the new post.
An alternative method is to directly insert this HTML code into your webpage source code.
<img src=http://fionetan.com/images/award_zdnet2.gif>
Then amend the url above with your correct file name and this image will automatic appear on your website or blog.

































