Oh. Oh. Once my new baby is operational, I can see that I am going to be revamping the G/X section of my icons (, because these are all so gorgeous and I only have a few icon slots left.
Hotlinking is when, instead of saving a picture to one's own computer, one just uses the img src tag (or something simliar)to pull the image from wherever it's hosted. Using a link to the picture, rather than the picture itself. Then, every time the picture is accessed, it loads it from the host and drains bandwith.
All these icons are hosted on LJ, so it doesn't really matter if someone on LJ were to do that (except, they would lose the pick if I took it down), but I tend to include it out of habit. *G*
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I love them.
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oh, and can someone explain hotlinking, I don't think I do that but I have no idea what it means
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Hotlinking is when, instead of saving a picture to one's own computer, one just uses the img src tag (or something simliar)to pull the image from wherever it's hosted. Using a link to the picture, rather than the picture itself. Then, every time the picture is accessed, it loads it from the host and drains bandwith.
All these icons are hosted on LJ, so it doesn't really matter if someone on LJ were to do that (except, they would lose the pick if I took it down), but I tend to include it out of habit. *G*
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