How to send a photo to a forum full quality

Question

HI:
Pardon my lack of knowledge but I recently got back into photography and joined a few photo forums, I would like to post some pictures but I am told that I need a hosting service like pbase which has a fee.
I have a .Mac acount and use the iWeb and backup.
Does the .MAC have the ability to be a host for pictures.
I would like to show a picture within the forum reply and/or posting box. In other words what I am typing into right now.
The photo forums have the ability to show a photo with out having to click to a link.
An example of a WEB SITE would be:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1030
The web name is digital photography review.
I asked how on the web site and they recommended pbase.com
I asked if they knew about Apple and could not get anybody to respond.
My last resort would be to set up a iWeb and direct them to it, two questions come to mind:
(1) I remember reading that the iWeb pictures that are transfered from iPhoto lose quality . if true, would a transfer from PE 4 or nikon photo software be better quality or does everything get compressed.
(2) can i direct them to a particular photo within the iWeb Folder ?
Sorry for the obvious lack of knowledge but I am still amazed what the digital cameras can do
Greg
thanks,

Answer 1

From their help section:
Posting help
* Using your password - before you can post you must be registered, once you have received your password (by email) you can login here, then change your profile / password and also post messages.
* Enter a subject - please enter a concise subject description, this will be the first thing a reader sees of your message, make it count. If you're following-up to a message we would encourage you to CHANGE the subject to reflect the content of your message.
* Email address - Please use your real email address, we use sophisticated anti-leeching technology, your email address will be safe, we will NOT disclose it to any third parties or use it for any mailing list (unless you sign up to one).
* Embedding images (only available to registered users) - To embed an image or photograph simply paste (or type) the URL (web address) of the image into your message (eg. http://hostname.com/image.jpg), images more than 480 pixels wide will be scrollable. To link to an image WITHOUT EMBEDDING IT simply add a semicolon (;) to the end of the url (eg. http://hostname.com/images.jpg;)
* Embedding links - To embed a link to a website or other type of URL simply paste (or type) the URL of the site into your message (eg. http://yoursite.com/home.htm).
* Please use "Samples & Galleries" - We encourage our users to embed image links into their text, however if you're simply posting a link to your favourite picture or your latest gallery we'd ask you to post this in the Samples & Galleries forum
For .Mac images, you could put them in the Sites folder of your iDisk and link to http://homepage.mac.com/yourusername/imagename.jpg