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.

[Noah_S]

I'm reviving this to bring up another important thing. Those image hosting sites come and go. 20 years ago people used tinypic and assumed that it would be there forever. If you're a young reader and have never heard of tinypic, that's because it's long gone and everything that was uploaded on it is also gone unless it was also somewhere else. Don't rely on external places continuing to be there.

[dogbrain]

The only one I've really used is Imgur.

just in case you're not aware, Imgur is banned in the UK so anyone in the UK won't be able to see images you link from there. you may want to find an alternative if that's something you care about