Does anyone know (or use) an image host site?

[Kiko]

Since I want my website to be also an archive of my art and animations (and also my page design is very image based), I thought it would be better if I put my files (image, video and audio) in a host site and just link it in my html code.

what are your thoughts on this? anyone recommend a good one? so far I only know of Dropbox, but I wanted to know if there is more and/or better.
I preferably want an option where I can imbed it into my site rather then take you out of it.

[TheFrugalGamer]

The only one I've really used is Imgur. It seems pretty stable and easy to use as far as I know, and the other image hosts I've seen usually like to charge for their services.

There was another thread in the Tutorials section that touched on some of that a while back. You can check it out here:
https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=443.msg2835#msg2835

[Melooon]

It sounds like you might actually need something more like ArtStation if you are just looking to showcase your work in the most convenient way. I don't think you can embed that in a site though. I would suggest putting your fav images on your site by hand, keeping it all in one place; and linking out to something like ArtStation if you need a more serious showcase.

In terms of regular site images, definitely not! Putting images on a separate host to your html introduces an extra point of failure in your site and may make the site a little slower since the browser needs to load stuff from many locations instead of one!

For on-site video its a different story! Use a dedicated video host like Vimeo; loading videos from typical web servers is always clunky since its a much more complex streaming process.

For audio; on-site or offsite are both ok since typically you only have one file loaded at a time so there is not much impact.

You can certainly hand code a gallery of images and its not hard! It just involves a lot of copy and pasting Good file organisation and image compression help too and thats also good practise for keeping an archive of your work.

Also what Frugal said ^^ thats a great thread to bring up!

[tarocchilla]

It sounds like you might actually need something more like ArtStation if you are just looking to showcase your work in the most convenient way. I don't think you can embed that in a site though.

Hi! sorry if this is a bit late, i chacked and you can hotlink artstation to your site!

[Kiko]

hey I’m also responding late to this cause I got extremely focus on building my site (^^ゞ
but yeah I think I’m gonna do what melon suggested and build the gallery myself since I want that control over what is displayed and how it’s displayed.
and as for Frugal’s thread, thank you! I was hesitant about image compression but I think you’re right, I look further into it（＾▽＾)

I don’t think artstation is what I’m looking for since I feel like it’s too professional:dunno: (like, I only know artstation as the “art portfolio” website, but I don’t really know much) and I want my art section to be like an archive of my old drawings from when I was a teenager, nothing too serious.