Hey guys,

This is a technical question -- but one that does not directly concern vBulletin or this forum per se, so I did not post this into the tech forum area. Besides, I think I may get more views in this area...

I've been trying to find an effective way to share some of my photos on XMTS.

What I USED to do was: upload my photos to imageshack.us and just copy/paste the pre-formatted link/image into the thread. This works well when you have a one-off photo or similar. Any more than that and it starts to take a while and get kinda annoying.

Then, I started hotlinking photo URLs from either my Flickr or my Picasa Web Albums accounts, as that is where I tend to share my photo albums with friends and family. The problems with that were, that not everyone could see the hotlinked photos (because hotlinking is generally seen as poor netiquette). So then, to resolve that issue, I just fed the hotlink URL to Imageshack and reverted to method 1, which works great -- and it was a fair bit quicker than before, because when you feed an image URL to Imageshack instead of uploading a pic from your HD, it goes very quickly -- and re-hosts the photo in a flash! The problem arose when I ran out of space on my Flickr and Picasa accounts, and I really didn't feel like feeding them a yearly fee for more space...

Well, I already pay for a perfectly good domain that has domain space which I haven't been using at all, so I opted to use my own domain and webserver space. I figured, to heck with Picasa and Flickr. I'll provide MY OWN stinkin' Flickr... The company I use gives me 10GB, which is plenty -- so I installed Gallery (v. 2) and have been using a direct iPhoto-->Gallery shunt, which has made life oh-so-simple, but NOT if I want to share those photos on forums like here on XMTS. Gallery doesn't really let me hotlink either, (and I have no desire to change the permissions or edit the code to bypass the built-in security because if I can hotlink, that means others can too)...

I'm really scratching my head here... What would be the quickest/easiest way to share a few photo galleries here on XMTS, short of individually re-uploading them to imageshack? Anyone have any good suggestions?