Various Photo Upload Sites That You Can Use

When blogging, posting on forums, or upgrading your online social networking profiles (such as on Friendster, Multiply, or MySpace), you can decorate your entries with pictures via photo upload sites. You can actually embed pictures to give your posts and entries more personality and simple HTML codes will help you do this. It’s simple and easy and all you have to do is sacrifice a little time to make an account.

The Code

When using pictures that you have uploaded to free hosting sites, there is one important thing to remember and that is the code that you need to use so that they can appear in various blog and forum entries or wherever it is you would like to display them. This is the code that you can use for that to happen:

<style type="text/css"><img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/username/sample.gif"></style>

The <style> tags are particularly important if you are uploading to sites that do not support CSS. One example of a site that does support CSS is Myspace. This means that you can just use the <img src> tag by itself. This rule may not be applicable depending on the image hosting site that you use.

Flickr

One of the most popular photo upload sites in the world (on the Internet) is Flickr. This is a great place to start uploading your pictures especially if you have a Yahoo email account. This is because everybody who is signed up with Yahoo.com can use his or her account details (username and password) to access Flickr and start uploading pictures. Then, the URL locations can be copied and replace the italicized address in the aforementioned code.

Flickr is easy to use and hassle-free. You just have to choose the pictures that you want to upload and then simply click the upload button. You can then have the option of renaming and giving them descriptions later on. The other great feature about Flickr is that you can browse through pictures that other people have uploaded for public viewing.

Village Photo

Another popular picture hosting site is known as Village Photos. What sets this apart from the rest is that the site can be used to optimize your pictures specifically for use with eBay, which is the largest auction and shopping website in the world. If you have an eBay account, Village Photos is one of the recommended few hosting sites for your pictures.

You also have the option of using an FTP program to upload your pictures but this is optional because there are other ways to upload the pictures within the site itself. Signing up to the service is simple and it is free. Since it is closely associated with the eBay website, you also have the option to use other services in the site that includes certified eBay Seller Tools.

Image Dump

An appropriate name for a site that only deals with images, ImageDump is one of the least popular of picture hosting sites but it is pretty much straightforward and is one that with the least load times. This basically means that each time you do access the site, you will get a simple directory listing of the many members of the site (including your own if you have an account there).

Using the HTNL code, you can embed pictures from this website and have them display on threads or wherever you would like the pictures to appear. The directory structure of this site is similar to a computer so it’s an easy to use website; and unlike other photo upload sites, it also features pictures from other users on the site so that each time you refresh the site, a new picture is displayed on screen.