Free Website For Limited Uploading

September 26, 2005 10:11 AM

Does anyone know of a FREE website where one can upload pictures and charts onto the web? I belong to a financial user group. At times I would like to include a chart or picture to emphasize my point. I therefore do not need much space for uploading my charts and pictures.
posted by Mckoan1 to computers & internet (11 comments total)

Sounds like you need a free account at flickr.com.
posted by luriete at 10:21 AM on September 26, 2005

Flickr? Yahoo! Photos?
posted by geeky at 10:21 AM on September 26, 2005

I use Photobucket. I'm not sure how you will be presenting the images -- I mean are you going to link to them from somewhere else and so you just need space to store them, or will you want other folks to go directly to this other site's URL to view them? If the former, Photobucket is pretty good; they even provide the HTML for you to cut & paste into your site. If the latter, you might want to check out what a picture's page looks like. I find Flickr's individual picture pages to be more professional looking, somehow. Check out Photobucket's recent images vs Flickr's recent images to see what each picture's page looks like.
Flickr has commenting, too, which you might like.
posted by librarina at 10:22 AM on September 26, 2005

Imageshack?
posted by borkencode at 10:34 AM on September 26, 2005

flickr.com
posted by pwally at 10:36 AM on September 26, 2005

does flicker let you embed hosted images in web pages? It sounds like thats what the poster wants.
posted by delmoi at 10:53 AM on September 26, 2005

does flicker let you embed hosted images in web pages?

Yup. Once you upload your photo/image, click the "All Sizes" button above the photo. At the bottom of the page, you will find HTML to embed the photo/image in a web page.
posted by geeky at 11:03 AM on September 26, 2005

It is unclear what the poster wants, at least to me. "I would like to include a chart or picture" -- embedded on a web page? I'd use Photobucket. On a PowerPoint? It doesn't matter which one, as long as you can download it from the web to whichever computer you're on when you make the PowerPoint. As a link in an email? Flickr might be best because of the commenting and caption capabilities.
Etc.
posted by librarina at 11:20 AM on September 26, 2005

Beware of Imageshack and Photobucket. I have seen tons of "bandwidth exceeded" placers for photos hosted with each of them. If that happened during a presentation, you would look very amateurish and, well, downright silly.
posted by mds35 at 11:29 AM on September 26, 2005

Lots of people are using Supload, which is a lot like image shack, with supposedly lots more bandwidth.
posted by iconomy at 12:34 PM on September 26, 2005

Does your internet provider give you free webspace? If so, you should have more than enough space to put up whatever you want to link to without bandwidth problems. I just use the free space I get with cox.net and haven't had any issues.
posted by sciatica at 8:54 PM on September 26, 2005