Originally posted by tam in the PhotoChop Shop Forum Rules v0.1
Sites like GeoCities or Angelfire do not allow you to link images. HOWEVER, if you name it image.txt instead of image.jpg, you can link to it.

Good call, Dude!

My ISP gives me a squandry 3 mb of space, with which I am supposed to be able to host a website. All I ever use it for is to host a few (very few) pics, but I run out of space all the time. I have searched high and low for a place to host pics that I post on message boards, and had one all along. I just didn't know this trick.

Now, with the 4 different GeoCities websites that I have, and the ability to register for as many as I like (provided they are all different, uh huh...) I have all the space I need to host pics.

I don't know how you came to know that trick, but I thanks ya for sharing it.

tam delves deep into the seedy underbelly of the net ;-)

But yeah, I had no idea either...it was a life saver until I started paying for netspace.

I have to give props to SomethingAwful's forums, where I saw them do it first....

But I'm glad it helps you out :)

As I mentioned, all I really use my website for is hosting pictures that I post on message boards. But since I have such a small amount of space available, I had to periodically delete pics to make room for new ones, thus making the old ones unavailable. Then when someone opens up a thread I had posted a pic in, all they get is the dreaded red x.

I have 3 or 4 different GeoCities websites that I don't use anymore, as I got tired of updating sites nobody ever went to, so I have 45 or 60 mb of pic space now. And the one other thing I actually used my website for, posting my own photographs, now works much better. I didn't like using GeoCities for that because of the adbox thingy.

Now I can put the HTML pages on my ISP website which has no ads, and link to the pics on GeoCities... So yeah, it does help me a lot. That's a neat trick... :)