|
It's like this:
- He uploads the images to his web site, or more accurately, his hosting server.
- In his Cellar post, he writes the HTML code (or VB code) to display those images which live on his server.
- Your web browser sees the code for the image and opens a connection to his server to request the image.
If his server is down, or he deletes the image from it, you'd get a broken image link.
If you attach an image to a Cellar post, roughly the same thing happens, except that the Cellar hosts the image and then it's my bandwidth. (Which I don't mind.)
The ability of the web to make all these connections rather seamlessly is what holds the whole WWW together. Any web page you bring up may cause your computer to connect to hundreds of other servers.
Bruce, you send out images in emails I think you said -- but if you preferred, you could send the HTML code for images hosted on a server somewhere, and people's emails would open those images. (Much like all the spam we're all getting right about now.)
|