No, I'm not stealing other people's pictures, they are my own pictures that I've already placed on my Comcast storage area. I'm doing eBay listings and like to have my own pictures in the body of the "description" rather than being hosted by eBay.

So, as I said, right now I insert the copy of the picture that I have stored on my hard drive, then I go back and edit the HTML to point to the same picture I have stored on Comcast. If there's a way to "Insert" a picture using the HTML editor where I point directly at the Comcast storage area that would be real nice.

Can't be done?

If you place the image in your project directory with the same folder name as the server. This way when you click on it to add to your page the editor will automatically build the link for you.

Eric:

Without completely understanding what you said, I don't think what you suggest is possible here. I'm doing simple HTML that I then copy and paste into eBay's form for describing the item being sold. When in the editor I do the "insert" and move through my hard drive to the picture, ending up with something like this:

<img src="../../../Users/(My Name)/Pictures/(Some Directory)/(Some Directory)/.JPG" width="XXX" height="XXXX" alt="" title="" border="0" />

I edit everything between the quotes so it ends up looking like this:

<img src="http://home.comcast.net/(My User Name)/(Some Directory)/Itemtobesold.JPG" width="XXX" height="XXXX" alt="" title="" border="0" />

It's the same picture in either case, it just lives in different spots.

Conceptually, I don't see the difference between pointing at something on my hard drive and pointing at something that lives in "the cloud". Maybe it can't be done this way?

Are you ftp publishing the html to display the images with the editor?

Hiya Tom,

I think the main question here is "why" is it in a different place other than where you're uploading your website? If you weren't trying to link to outside images it would be not only easier for you to build your pages, but also more efficient as items that reside on the server location the pages are in are much more quickly loaded than items that reside on other servers/sites.

Having said that, if you still insist (for lack of a better word lol) on wanting them to reside somewhere else, then you would just insert the link same as you have been. You don't have to do it the long way each time though. If you have images and you know the dimensions (which should always be shown in the code) then just copy and paste one you already added and change the info. Much easier than having to reinsert a new image each time

" think the main question here is "why" is it in a different place other than where you're uploading your website?"

I'm not uploading to my website, I copying and pasting some HTML code into eBay's "Sell your item" page. My HTML resides on eBay's servers but the pictures inside the HTML reside somewhere else.

"Having said that, if you still insist (for lack of a better word lol) on wanting them to reside somewhere else, then you would just insert the link same as you have been."

Using the HTML editor, how would I do that? I can't "navigate" out to the Web, as far as I can see. I might have several different pictures of an item I'm selling so it seems - conceptually at least - that I could navigate out to the web where that picture resides and the editor would insert the location and dimensions, just as I do when navigating to an image on my hard drive.

I understand the HTML editor is designed to develop complete web sites where I might upload a complete self-hosted page or series of pages, but I'm not doing that. It seems like a simple question to me: using the HTML editor can I use the "Insert" > "Image" function of the editor to "insert" a picture that's residing in "the cloud"?

Tom now you mention the dreaded EBAY it all makes sense

I tried this pasting in my own html code into ebay from a VSD page, by obtaining the code opened in HTML editor, for the exact same reason, and i gave up.

But this comment may help others answer, it save you a FORTUNE in ebay charges if you have dozense of listings.

But i think you will find theres a better answer, if you store your pictures in an HTML editor made site with the pictures then in your own hosting (ie) hint hint SDRIVE

An iframe coded into the ebay page pointing at your image gallery on your own server is way easier to accomplish. Any future changes are also quicker and more reliable.

There is no navigate out to the web feature, not sure any program has that, but it's possible I suppose that some might, but I've never seen that in any program.

To change this you'll just need to get the web URL of each of your pictures and copy that URL into the href="" part of the image code. It's not that difficult and that's all you need to do.

"To change this you'll just need to get the web URL of each of your pictures and copy that URL into the href="" part of the image code. It's not that difficult and that's all you need to do. "

Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing. I was hoping to eliminate the extra work involved.

Storage is "everywhere" these days and it just seems like programs would be starting to incorporate that concept.