We would all enjoy the Internet more if it went faster, right? Then consider the following facts, and tips that will make your use of the Internet faster.
Copying Images from the Web Facts & Tips
Courtesy of Steve Charles - edited by Tony Kovach
I'd like to know how people are learning to "a href" from someone else's site
rather than * download *. It seems many are doing this. It slows the Internet down and costs everyone money,
as you will see below. When you find an image you'd like to save, consider using the tips below instead!
First off, to download an image onto your computer, you just click on it with your right mouse
button and follow instructions. Depending on which browser and which version
you use, the instructions are a bit different.
But basically a pop up menu will appear. You select "save picture" or "save
file" and another menu appears when you hit "enter". There are two things
you can do on this second menu.
First, you may rename the file if you happen to have another file of the
same name on your hard drive. Then, you can choose what directory you want
to save it to. Then click "save".
If you're using MS Internet Explorer you can double-click on the saved filename with your
left mouse button and the animation will play for you so you can test it!
Next you upload the file to your website. Then instead of the "href" tag you
use the tag or in your html
code. THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!
Now, here's why you do that...
First, my site (Steve Charles'), like many others, gets charged by how many visitors I get. If you use the "href" tag
every time someone visits your site it costs me money. The same is true for many business sites, and those costs get passed on in the form of higher prices - so we all pay.
Also, keep in mind that your viewer's browser has goes to
your page, see's the "href," and goes to my site and loads the image, then
goes back to your site. That slows your site down a lot!
Furthermore, this slows up my site. If I have 5,000 people doing this to my site
it might even stop people from getting into to visit because the people
visiting YOUR site are tying up my server. My server gets very upset when
all his lines are tied up by people accessing my site, and they're not even
visiting me. It slows down the service to all his other customers as well!
Next, because your visit is jumping back-and-forth between your website and
all the places people have "hreffed" images and sounds from, it ties up the whole
Internet. There's tons more traffic than there needs to be. Ideally, your
visitor would just log into your site and everything could be accessed from
right there! That would save everyone time and money!
All this slows down YOUR webpage, or takes you more time to visit other people's sites. It loads a lot faster if it's all in one
place. In fact, if other people are tying up my site or someone else's by "hreffing," it will
slow down your site as well as mine, because your vistitors' browsers can
get in to get my image any more than anyone else's. IT'S A BIG MESS!
The bottom line is that if everyone learned to download their images and stopped "hrefing" to access images, you and everyone else using the Web would benefit.
We suggest that anytime you check someone's image "Source" codes (you can see their "img src=" codes from the "view" pull down on MS Internet Explorer, and on "page source" in Netscape's "View" pull-down menu), and you notice that they are "hrefing" their image sources, that you e-mail them and pass this tip or link on to them. It will help everyone on the Web! Good Surfing!
