Imageshack: Media hosting for the web

I have seen imageshack used a lot but have never tried it myself until now.

Problem:

Bloggers image hosting is limited (100mb) and does not work with lightbox.

Solution:

Imageshack works great with blogger and lightbox. It allows for easy posting of small thumbnails that link to the bigger image. Normally the thumbnail would link to a web page containing the full version of the image but this is not compatible with lightbox (lightbox needs the actual image). The fix is very easy: Simply change the image link to the thumbnail link but remove the .th from in front of the extension.

My main complaint is that the thumbnails are too small. I could get around this by using the full image and scaling it down with css but this would wast some of my 300mb per image per hour bandwidth (not really a problem now but may become problematic with more readers).