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Flickr is fabulous! Love it! Also, love your blog Ree!

Oh, and PS- Charlie is adorable!

My blog: http://cynthiajillphotography.blogspot.com/

Hi folks.......brand new to the blogging (giggling wildly!). Dumb question for ya: what does HOSTING mean? I just find my pic on my computer, wherever I have put it, add it to the box on blogger that shows up when you want to "insert a photo" and it shows up. I have learned not to use the compose mode, but the HTML mode...makes more sense to me. Thanks for any tips! My goodness, is this a whole new world, heh?

I've been hosting mine on to Flickr - though for different reasons. I like posting big photos - or at least bigger than the biggest of blogger presets allow. So I widened the margins of my blog to something more than 600 pixels, and then resize my photos to that and put them on flickr. And then on my blog. :)

http://lhcwords.blogspot.com

I use Photobucket to host my photos. I organize my images by creating separate folders for each month (I tend to post a lot of pictures, too, although not nearly as many as you). They can also be organized by topic or any other relevant subject.

I recommend enabling the privacy settings, though, so that folks can't click their way into all of your photo albums. Unless you don't care about that sort of thing.

www.dillypoo-chatter.blogspot.com

I have no idea! I put them on my computer-then to Photo Shop Elements then the fixed one go into a computer file then onto my blog!!!!!!!!!!
Oh mt holy cow, I must ask someone about this!!!
Oh and, I'm a visual person...can not do without the photos!

Thanks for that tip on the photo host.. I had NO clue! I do upload my pics straight onto blogger, and now I'm going to stop! AUGH!

www.twocuteblondies.blogspot.com

I have a special blog set in my flickr account, edit the posts in html, and paste the flickr code directly into the post.

My burning questions are:1)what's the best way to backup posts(I paste them into a text file on my hard drive), and 2)do you have any plans to clone Charlie?

I have to agree with Megan, if you're using your own host Wordpress makes it so easy to add photos.

Most of the photo sharing sites have bandwidth limits and if you exceed them your photos will not show up.

You can get inexpensive hosting for around $5-$7 / month (I use Hostgator, and love them) and setting up a Wordpress blog is simple through their cpanel admin. (just a few clicks and it's set up) you can then grab one of thousands of free templates around the net.

As Megan said, using plugins helps, and if you need to move, you just download your site folder and upload it to the new server.

I can see if you're using one of the free blogging platforms like Blogger, or even Wordpress.com you will be better off uploading your photos to a site like Flickr.

I enjoyed the post and look forward to more.

Thanks ... Scott
Twitter - @ScottProck
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Brilliant! I have been loading TONS of photos directly. Now I will start using flickr!

www.beachbrights.blogspot.com

Thanks for the tips....I just started a blog and I have been uploading directly I will have to stop that so I don't lose anything. Thanks~

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