Dio's Femfight Community Forum

I have an idea that might be useful to our little group. There is a service called Image Shack that allows unlimited storage of images on their site. Just on that level it's pretty useful. You can take the images you store there and hotlink them to your any website (like I've done below... you may want to look down there as a break from this long post!), and when people click on your page the bandwidth and storage of your individual site isn't used up by the images, as they are stored elsewhere. Beyond the storage and hotlinking, they also allow you to take some of your images (your choice of which ones) and make a public gallery of them that others can view.

This is where I thought it might be interesting. As all of us are doing our casual perusal of the internet and pick up images, we can store them there and then add them to our individual galleries. If Dio linked to each one of our galleries from here, we could have an ever growing group of galleries that feature the better FvF images we have found while surfing the net. It was be an easy way to save and share the best images we are finding.

The company does provide all of this for free, but it's not the easiest service to use. You first register your email address with them, and they send you a link to you "My Images" panel. You need to save that, because there isn't a formal sign-in process per se. If you get rid of your cookies from time to time, then you won't be able to get to "My Images" unless you remember that link. After you have the "My Images" panel, you can upload as many images as you like, and can get code for using them on internet forums, hotlinking the large image or even thumbnails, and many other HTML options.

After you have done this you can then set up a "photoblog" and start deciding which images you want to make public there. Again, it's easy, but you'll want to carefully follow the instructions to make sure that the blog is associated with your "My Images" panel, so you can choose which photos to be seen. Also, as before, you'll need to save the link that they email you to your Administration page, because of the issue that arises if you delete cookies. On the Administration Page you'll also find the URL to your gallery which you can share with others, and to which Dio could link to if he wants to.

If this sounds like too much work, don't worry. It's not as bad as it sounds. In addition to the things above, there are many other useful features. One of the best things is this thing called Transloader which allows you to have a little button at the top of your browser you can click anytime you are surfing the web and find an image you want to add to your "My Images" panel. You simply click on that button your browser and you can choose any image on the page and have it go directly up to Image Shack. This saves time as you won't have to download the image your computer and then turn around and upload it to Image Shack right away.

The reason that I'm going to all this trouble is because I can see this being a great resource for us and a fun way to share images. Below is a link to the one that I just started. While the images aren't all FvF, my goal is that most of them will be, though I doubt many will not see the appeal of the non-fighting images.

Here is the link to my gallery.

Some hotlinked images











So, what do you think?

-- Edited by Kent at 14:20, 2005-07-02