Embedding pictures with Google Docs

but embedding images in other sites seems to not work. Sorry.

The embedding used to work, didn’t it? It is pretty quirky as an end-user too, scaling the image to fit the display, and when you choose 100% it scrolls in its own way ignoring the browser’s scrolling functions. How typically Google.

The better solution – use DropBox or one of the usual image sharing services (but I think DropBox won’t time out).
To display a Google image, you should set it to be shared public (which you appear to do) and then you need to obtain the raw image URL (Google make this difficult to do – in Firefox, pop open Tools→Page Info and rummage in the Media section until you find it). Your image is: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/JuQz58PvvEdBM3eaVrHrJU8ZkX_NyE-RPa86rkcq0UMeheUQx2E0tTFyFlSzI2YDLYwLVIq-wRx5WKej

However, periodically Google change the server which breaks all of the images up to that point. This is why I saw your image before, but now it isn’t there. The current URLs may be present for a year, or gone tomorrow. Google Docs isn’t really suitable for stuff to be embedded.

FWIW, at least for right now:

It looks like there’s an API to convert a folder to something that can be served on the web, albeit with eccentric URLs. Not exactly suitable for a real website, but should suffice for things like embedded images. More details at http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/11/google-drives-new-site-publishing-takes-on-amazon-dropbox/

I have not tested it (I host my images on my own site), but it looks like DropBox can embed files by replacing the “www” in the URL (is a preview) with “dl” to directly serve up the file [ https://www.dropbox.com/help/201/en ]. Simpler, huh?

I will eventually sort the site out. The reason I quite like Google Drive (though its abilities are too restrictive currently, but then it couldn’t host web pages a month ago) is that it is so transparent – the ‘site’ appears to be a directory on my disc (well, it is).

This means not only is pushing something to the site as easy as copying something locally, I can do so from within an Acorn emulator. Plus all the contents are synced between my various devices.

So, pros and cons, and I lack the time to do something better right now, regrettably. I think you’re right that DropBox would work better for images to be embedded elsewhere, and I’ll bear that in mind, ta.

Good call on using DropBox – that works just fine.