FAQ	Answers
What if I don't have a web site of my own?	Then you have no file to place gifs into and cannot leave any images anywhere on the web.
A person belongs to a forum where she would like to post a picture of herself. After scanning, she's told it must be on the web. She starts a website at Yahoo, puts her picture there and then discovers that they don't allow hot-linking?	If your site is at Yahoo then you can't be stealing bandwidth from Yahoo if you are putting the picture in a forum at Yahoo. In other words it's all at Yahoo so you aren't hot-linking from another site.
To post my own picture at Yahoo, do I have to "right click" and "save image as"?	I've never posted a picture at Yahoo, however that is the way you save a picture to your Personal Computer, so if you then upload it to Yahoo you are not stealing bandwidth.
If I find a free animation on the web and want to use it, I right click and save. Once I do that is it then legal to use it?	If you've saved it to your computer then yes you may use the animated picture as long as it is a FREE picture on the site you got it from.
I have a web site at Angelfire and when ever I put a gif in a guestbook I get an angelfire logo and can't see my gif.	That is because you are attempting to hotlink and Angelfire doesn't allow it. You are trying to pull your gif from your ftp file at Angelfire and put it in Jenny's guestbook which is NOT at Angelfire.
I still don't get it?	You live at 100 main street and you have pullies set up in your yard, some of your neighbors are letting you pull things on your pullies from their yards to yours, however, some neighbors do not allow you to do that.
How do I know if the site hosting my web pages allows this?	Most Free web site hosts don't allow it, however to find out go to your hosts home page and look for "remote loading policy" or "remote linking" often it is in the terms of service or in FAQ and if you still can't find it e-mail them an ask. Or if you read "all non-html files (pictures, gifs, jpgs, music) must be linked into your web page" then they don't allow hot-linking.
Others are leaving pictures in guestbooks, how are they doing it?	First they download them onto their own computers, then they put them in an ftp file (or file manager) where their site is located and MOST of them pay for their web sites. It's a money thing, it costs your host 'bandwidth' so they charge you to pay the bills for the bandwidth you are using.