Zhasper wrote:
On 23/07/07, Tom Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even better; use the graphics from someone else's web site. ;-)
For example Australian Screen credits a lot of participating
organisations and has their logos listed
<http://australianscreen.com.au/title-index/features/>. This does not
make for good web design, but if you have to have all those logos,
then you might as well reference the originals from their web sites
and save the load on your server.
It sounds like you're saying that a convenient way to reduce load on
your own server is to make it some random third party's problem.
What you're describing is called hotlinking, amounts to theft of
bandwidth and resources, and is generally frowned upon.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking and
http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html for explanations of why. See
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html for a sample of the
treatment you can expect if you persist in this behaviour.
However, in this case, linking to the logos, which belong to and are promoting
the organisations concerned, provides valuable direct feedback to these
organisation as to how much publicity they are getting through this particular
channel.
For example, see the Creative Commons code generated for inclusion on your
website by
<http://creativecommons.org/license/>
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