Hosting Your Own Pictures

This is a little guide to hopefully get you up and going on hosting your own images.

First thing is first and that is you are going to need an image host, if you dont have one then you can find one at ourhutch.com/examples/freepay.html. It is a list of free and pay image hosts that you can use to host your images. A quick and easy host that many ebayers use is imageshack.us it is very simple and easy and free.

Once you locate your image host, you will need to upload your images on to their site, sortof like you do on ebay. Whichever image host youdecide to use should have instructions on how to do this. If you use imageshack.us here is a couple screenshots on how to do this, if not then skip this step.

At the main page click the button browse. Now browse your computer for the image you are wanting to upload, when you find it press open.

Now after you have done the first step press host it at the bottom of the form.

After the image uploads and the screen shows a lot of different URLS, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and you will see a URL there and next to it, it will say direct link to image. That is the images URL. You will need that for the next step.

For those of you that are not using imageshack.us then you will need to upload your images to your image host and find the images URL.

Once you have gotten your images URL you will place that URL in some simple HTML coding. This is what will make your image apear in the auction description, blogs, sommunity boards, ME pages etc..

<img src="IMG URL GOES HERE BETWEEN QUOTATIONS">

Ofcourse you will place the image URL in the appropriate place, and when this is done you will be able to place your image anywhere you would like. For more information on this HTML code visit w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp.

I hope that this was helpful to you and will help you out with sales and your auctions. If you have any more questions feel free to email me.

-AKB