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I 've been using Zoundry Raven and Flickr module to write my blog and insert image into content for over a month now. It is great and I write my blog with ease , even on the air plane when I 'm on travel.

This is the image solution I choose for my web publishing. I will not change to use other solutions (e.g. online IMCE with FCKEDIT etc). But today I saw an annoucement on my flickr webpage: 'You have now 187 photos on your flickr. You will have to upgrade to Flickr pro to be able to upload more than 200 photos. or you could only see the newest 200 photo!' Needless to day, The Flickr pro account require paying a few dollars each month. I use Flickr module for convenience, but I will not pay the money for just a little bit convenience.

So I start to find a new image solution that is free and convenience for my blog.

What about the CCK Imagefield?

IMCE and FCKEDIT is great image solution combination but each image is a separate file that we could not reuse for othe purpose, and I do not like the way that I have to create path in IMCE before I 'm able to insert image into specific path.

Many people believe that CCK Imagefield is the future of drupal image solution. It is great cause every image of CCK Imagefield has unique identity that we could reference and reuse it in other places (e.g. use it in content template).

I would have loved to use CCK Imagefield if not for the problem that each image upload has default layout under each content type. There 's no way to position the image to a specific place on the webpage . Although you could position a image in page layout using content template, but the layout has constant place for this content type and will not change place according to different article's unique requirement.

CCK Imagefield + Filefield Insert + Filefield Path solution

Filefield is an important module to make the CCK Imagefield a possible image solution for common use. Cause Filefield Insert finally enable us to insert the CCK Imagefield image into any place in FCKEDIT.

And the Filefield Path module is to provide dynamic image path using the drupal token, which is also a feature I have been looking for a long time! which is difficult to implement using IMCE!

I will test this image solution to see if it is good enough for storing my article image, I 'm not going to use Flickr to store image for my content due to the 200 limit!