I need some website help please!

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for those who give a crap about my website, photobucket started charging for using their website to host images or something like that so all of my pics are f'd up now. i've since downloaded all my pics to imgur but can't seem to figure out how to do the pics. please someone help me! :mad:
 

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What can't you figure out how to do? Your post is not super clear on that.
 

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Your web pages contain html tags for images, the <img> tag. This is one (I got it by right-click, view source), "
<img align="middle" border="0" height="135" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z308/sicko1943/webpage/con pics/GenCon 2004/TanyaRoberts04.jpg" width="125" />". The src attribute gives the url for the actual image. In this case it points at a url on photobucket. You will have to use whatever editor you use to change these src tags to a publicly-available url at your picture host of choice. Or you may be able to upload the files to sites.google.com (often in an "images" directory) and reference the image from the website.

You do not state what you used to edit the html pages. Depending on the product it may hide the technical details and allow you to just paste in a URL. At worst you can edit the files using notepad. Change the url inside the quoted string of the src attribute.

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Your web pages contain html tags for images, the <img> tag. This is one (I got it by right-click, view source), "
<img align="middle" border="0" height="135" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z308/sicko1943/webpage/con pics/GenCon 2004/TanyaRoberts04.jpg" width="125" />". The src attribute gives the url for the actual image. In this case it points at a url on photobucket. You will have to use whatever editor you use to change these src tags to a publicly-available url at your picture host of choice. Or you may be able to upload the files to sites.google.com (often in an "images" directory) and reference the image from the website.

You do not state what you used to edit the html pages. Depending on the product it may hide the technical details and allow you to just paste in a URL. At worst you can edit the files using notepad. Change the url inside the quoted string of the src attribute.

JR
I loaded all my pics to imgur & now I have to change all my pages. ugh!
 

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Photobucket caught a lot of people out with that, then again any service 'free' on the web will be moneytised somehow
 

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I got the notice that I had been using them for "excessive third party hosting", although that's exactly what their site is for.
So I deleted my account and told them to shove it.
 

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That's not really what a free photo hosting site is for. If you're using it "excessively", again, too much third party hosting, which they equate to you using it commercially whether you are or not. If you have that much need for hosting photos and calling them from third party sites, but a website.
 

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That's not really what a free photo hosting site is for. If you're using it "excessively", again, too much third party hosting, which they equate to you using it commercially whether you are or not. If you have that much need for hosting photos and calling them from third party sites, but a website.
photobucket just changed their policy from allowing third-party use to charging for it. There was no question of "excessive" or not. As of the change if you want to use even one image off-site, you have to pay $399. The policy change was done with very little notification. Lots of people got caught out on this, especially on e-bay, amazon and similar. See http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40492668. If you hunt around there are no doubt images on gamesquad posts that are now lost because of this.

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My images on photobucket still seems to work on e.g., Consimworld.
I can't find any instances where you have posted an image on consimworld. I see other photobucket images that have the problem on the site. As far as I understand the situation yours should not work either. But I have never used photobucket so I only know what I have read about the change.

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Yes, Consimworld copies the image into your account, but you'll find it's gone if you load in another image. Avatar image that is.
 

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In fairness, his post did say "excessive third party hosting." I guess somebody needs to alert Webster's that the definition of excessive is now one.
 

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In fairness, his post did say "excessive third party hosting." I guess somebody needs to alert Webster's that the definition of excessive is now one.
The OP did not use the term "excessive." One of the commenters did. My understanding is that photobucket sent out an e-mail with a message like, "please read our latest terms of service," then embedded in the TOS the fact that the free accounts could no longer use their images on third party sites. While I am sure many users object to being charged instead of getting something for free, they do seem to have a legitimate gripe about how the change was rolled out--by photobucket mumbling it under their breath.

I don't know anything about sites.google.com but it seems like one ought to be able to upload images directly to the website rather than relying on a third party like photobucket.

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That's not really what a free photo hosting site is for. If you're using it "excessively", again, too much third party hosting, which they equate to you using it commercially whether you are or not. If you have that much need for hosting photos and calling them from third party sites, but a website.
Hardly 'excessive' use, I used it for occasionally posting photos to forums such as this one. which usually don't allow you to upload directly.
I had a total of 52 photos uploaded and posted over scattered forums whenever the need arose since I joined in 2009.
None of it was in any way commercial, merely conversational in nature.

'Excessive' was their term, which I found insulting, since I was certainly not what you'd call a prolific pic poster.
 
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