Hey, everyone!
Hope you're all enjoying the recent upgrades to the site!
Just a reminder: please refrain from hotlinking photos to DWT, or from the DWT photo galleries to any other sites.
Hotlinking is the direct in-line linking of a photo, sound file, movie, or other file from one site to another. Most commonly, a hotlink uses the <img> tags around a URL to display on a page an image or photo that is actually stored on another website. A good description of the process and how to tell if you are doing it can be found here:
http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html.
Hotlinking uses bandwidth, which will cause pages to load slower and cost the site owners more money to run their sites. It can also lead to unexpected results if the hosting site changes the image that you linked to.
Using sites like photobucket to host your own photos is permitted, as those sites are designed for that purpose. Here on DWT, you can also use our photo galleries for photos you want to share here in DWT's forums. However, linking to a photo in the DWT galleries from another website using <img> tags is discouraged, as this uses DWT's bandwidth every time that other website's page loads and Lou might want to send his kids to college someday.
If you have any questions, please feel free to PM myself or MickeyBabe. Thank you for your cooperation!