I know "hot linking" from website and blog design: most sites discourage hot linking which means that rather than you storing the image on your own server, you create an image link to another site's server. This is discouraged because you are forcing that other site to increase its bandwidth (which costs money) rather than you increasing your own site's bandwidth to display the image. If you've gotten permission to use an image, I would do the following: download the image, host it on your site or blog, and then include in the caption the phrase listing the source and that permission was given. You also might ask that site for clarification as to what they understand is "hot linking" Finally, one of the pitfalls of hotlinking is this: that site could remove the image, rename it or move it and that means you have just an image frame on your site with no image . .. Hope this makes sense. Thomas MacEntee Founder, High-Definition Genealogy http://hidefgen.com +1 (773) 661-3080 -----Original Message----- From: transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Kinzie Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:38 PM To: transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com Subject: [TGF] Hot Linking Could someone explain to me what "Hot Linking" means? I understand it to be direct linking of graphics. I found it on a copyright page regarding a gravestone picture. Does this means that if one gets permission from the original submitter that a reference to the gravestone web site is not permitted? ((for example, www.gravestonesite.com) The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message