Craft Edge

For all....it is best if we only post images and works that are our own. The forum is about our works and creations. The moderators do not have the time to check the source of everything posted here. If we remain diligent in our standards of what we post, it saves a lot of grief and work for others. A link to another site with images is a better way to handle this and is totally acceptable.

Thanks for clearing up that issue Sandy.

I'll add my thanks, Sandy. That was kindly and concisely explained.

The short answer is very clear...thank you Sandy.
But, I am so curious, as I do not know how to hot link. I see other people do it...sometimes you can click direct on the picture and go to it and sometimes you can't. I want to know how to do this? Thank you, Louise, or anyone else who can explain how.

For a simple hot link..

right click the picture you wish to hotlink and in firefox select Copy Image Location, in internet explorer select properties and then in the properties window select and copy the Address: (URL) line(s).

To hotlink it here click the Img button and put the cursor between the two tags and paste.

You should end up with something like this..
Which will display like this..

The precedent for hotlinking was set when google was accused of copyright infringement for displaying images in its search results if memory serves me correct.

The courts ruled that as the image remains on the owners server and is not actually hosted on the target page's server then no infringement has occurred, it is therefore the image owners responsibility to prevent hot linking if they do not wish the image to be used in this way.

I think it was also ruled that the destination server can create, store and use a thumbnail image of the original with some size limitation, I forget what that size is now.

Hot linking is an integral part of html, it is purposely built into the html standard to enable documents to cross reference each other. The main objections made to hotlinking are not because of copyright issues, it is because of 'bandwidth theft' where basically the person who owns the image is providing the upload bandwidth to display it on someone else's website. Hotlinking on a forum such as this would not really consume enough bandwidth to be an issue though, but if an image is used lots of times by lots of people (such as an animated emote for example) it can very quickly add up to a HUGE amount of bandwidth being used/ stolen.

Thanks, Louise...I tried this with one of your photos...(love the colors in that bee!)in the topic thread about your photographs.
The only thing now that I am wondering is...the first photo you posted could be clicked on and then it took me to your site, ...going through properties in explorer and copy paste of url, it does not allow me to click on the photo here and be taken to your site. Should I have gotten the link from your link page, and which one? You called the way I did it, the 'simple hot link', so there is another way, I assume.

gj1 wrote:Thanks, Louise...I tried this with one of your photos...(love the colors in that bee!)in the topic thread about your photographs.
The only thing now that I am wondering is...the first photo you posted could be clicked on and then it took me to your site, ...going through properties in explorer and copy paste of url, it does not allow me to click on the photo here and be taken to your site. Should I have gotten the link from your link page, and which one? You called the way I did it, the 'simple hot link', so there is another way, I assume.

Yes there is.. well a couple..

From my website you can get a pre made hotlink code which also links the image back to my website. You go to the Share button, get a link, embeddable links and then forum small/ med/ large

it will look like this when pasted
and like this on the forum..



You can create the same type of link yourself but it is an extra couple of steps..

Click the URL button, put your cursor between the URL tags and press the Img button.

Now copy the image location to between the image buttons as you do for a simple hot link.

Next you need to copy the website URL (or type one, it does not HAVE to be the same as the image) and you need to put that inside the opening URL tag so the tag looks like this..
The URL tags then create a link, and whatever is between the two tags is what you click to go to that link. In this case it is an image between them so clicking the image jumps to the website but you can just type text instead of an image like this..
which would look like this.. My Pretty flutterby photo in the forum