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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3091949, member: 77639"]You might be able to frame coin images from another website. For those who aren't familiar with framing, the image per se is never really on the secondary website, only the link. But the images appear in browsers as though they're on the secondary website. It's best to get permission before doing it; there have been lawsuits over the practice. An enticement for commercial sites, like dealers and auction houses, to give permission would be a credit below each frame that is also a link to their homepage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The downside is that all the links have to be monitored frequently to make sure they're still live and the images haven't changed. This process can be turned over to a bot though. Some websites, like Heritage Auctions, have a huge number of coin images and many have been there for years. I don't know whether the structure of the URL's for their images has changed over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Framing is an alternative to having all images on your own server. There are pluses and minuses to each approach.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3091949, member: 77639"]You might be able to frame coin images from another website. For those who aren't familiar with framing, the image per se is never really on the secondary website, only the link. But the images appear in browsers as though they're on the secondary website. It's best to get permission before doing it; there have been lawsuits over the practice. An enticement for commercial sites, like dealers and auction houses, to give permission would be a credit below each frame that is also a link to their homepage. The downside is that all the links have to be monitored frequently to make sure they're still live and the images haven't changed. This process can be turned over to a bot though. Some websites, like Heritage Auctions, have a huge number of coin images and many have been there for years. I don't know whether the structure of the URL's for their images has changed over the years. Framing is an alternative to having all images on your own server. There are pluses and minuses to each approach. Cal[/QUOTE]
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