Important Notice: Hotlinking

Just a quick notice that unfortunately the time has come for me to implement some hotlinking measures. Over the years I’ve had issues here or there with girl’s not respecting the freebie rules and linking their freebies from the site instead of hosting them somewhere else. Up until now, it’s been a fairly minor issue, and one I’ve adressed personally, but the time has come when I need to implement other measures.

For anyone unaware, hotlinking is when you take a freebie and use the direct URL to it from my site on your wepage or listing, instead of downloading or saving the images and uploading them to host somewhere else. When you do this, your use of the image and page loads cost me bandwidth, which I pay for. I love doing freebies for you guys and will keep doing them, but all I do ask is that you host them somewhere on your own (your own server or a free image host like PSOHosting.com) and not cost me bandwidth to use them.

So if for any reason you are hotlinking freebies from here, please know that as of Sunday night, your images will no longer show. You are still welcome to use them, but you will need to download and host the images somewhere else, because your direct links will no longer work.  I’m posting this and will wait until Sunday give anyone a chance to replace their links without having any broken images on their listings or sites.

A new design for the new year…

Just a quick note about a few changes to the site for the new year. As you can see, the site has a sleek new look to start things off. There is also a new Tips & Tutorials section, that will hopefully be filling up soon.  Some more changes may be coming along as well, so bear with me if things go out of whack a bit.

Hope you all are having a great year so far, and stay tuned for more changes and freebies in the works!