# I want to link to some photos I took. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946 "2004-05-25T04:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/1 "2004-05-25T04:46:35Z")
How do I get the photos online? What’s a good service to use? Free would be best, cheap would be okay. Probably not something I’d use frequently, so I don’t want to pay yearly rates unless they’re way down there. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/2 "2004-05-25T05:11:43Z")
[www.photoisland.com](http://www.photoisland.com) Free and easy to use. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/3 "2004-05-25T12:47:22Z")
I just did this research and decided to go with Photoworks. [www.photoworks.com](http://www.photoworks.com/DefaultCustomers.aspx) My second choice was Ofoto. [www.ofoto.com](http://www.ofoto.com/Welcome.jsp) My son uses Yahoo. [yahoo photos](http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/) All are free and easy. You probably can’t go wrong with any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/4 "2004-05-25T13:49:28Z")
Another good one is [Webshots](http://www.webshots.com). They all work pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/5 "2004-05-27T00:20:33Z")
Also, many ISP’s give you free (included with your account) an amount of web space where you can post things like you photos, your own web page, etc. This is generally a complicated URL (usually www.\/~\), but that may be OK if you’re just sending the address to friends & relatives, rather than expecting web users in general to find your site. Also, you need learn how to upload a file, and if you want to create a webpage, you need to learn enough HTML code to set up one (or learn a HTML generator program). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-link-to-some-photos-i-took/246946/6 "2004-05-27T01:58:23Z")
I just posted pics of ChiDope on [Yahoo.](http://photos.yahoo.com/yojimboguy) I got a significant number of complaints [in the ChiDope thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250027&page=4) that several people were unable to view them. And this is not the first time I’ve had problems with Yahoo. I’m shopping for another site, and I will keep an eye on the results of this thread. FWIW, several posters in the other thread used [Imagstation](http://www.imagestation.com/), and I haven’t seen any complaints about it. I figuring on giving it a shot.