Stephani Stephenson on sat 28 jul 01
Strangely, I sent this post earlier in the day and it showed up on the
list with my heading but Mel's text.
Strange morphing going on in cyberspace , reminds me of a line from a
movie long ago.." It had the body of a crab and the head of a social
worker!"
So one more time:
I use Earthlink and constructed my own website, not knowing a whole lot
about it., and learning by trial ad error( and sometimes trial and
success!)
On the site, which is a domain name site, I think same
10 MB allottment , I have never run out of room and have quite a few
pages with many, many images.
The problem with images is not whether your 10 MB space will hold them
but is how long will they take to load onto a viewer's screen.
When I first constructed my pages, the images were too large. Fine on my
computer but very slow for many computers to download.
Many people viewing your site will have slow or moderate speed
connections , so you want to manipulate the images so they aren't as
memory hungry.
I constructed site on a iMac using Netscape and Netscape Communicator.
There is nothing fancy about the site but there are a lot of images. My
main goal was to get the images and info out there.
There is a very helpful site on Netscape called the website garage!
You can run your site through it for an analysis and a 'tune up'. No
charge, Though first you register with Netcenter on Netscape.
It really helped me , a total newbie, better understand my site. It will
tell you how much time it takes a page to download with various modem
speeds.
It even analyzes each image and shows you how the image would look at
different reduced memory sizes.
For example, say one image is taking up 36,000 kb. the tune up shows
you how it would look at 15,000, 6,000,, etc. etc. i.e. it pares down
the image for you to different levels and lets you select the one you
prefer,. It also shows you the comparable download times for each
version.
(generally it is a balance between absolute clarity and less clarity,
less kb.)
The decision you will need to make is how many and what size images per
page do you want to show? And how do you want to organize your pages?
Since then I have learned how to pre-edit my images with my own
software, but this site was very helpful to me, especially in the
beginning .
In any case I have never 'hit the wall' on Earthlink site memory
allottment
Stephani Stephenson
http://www.alchemiestudio.com
cookie davis on mon 30 jul 01
Greetings all!
I usually keep quiet on this list, however I feel as though I can be of some
service on this topic...it was mentioned in one of the postings about
keeping image file size down when creating a website. I have had some
experience in this area and I have always followed this rule of thumb.
Supposedly, computer monitors can "see" at 72 dpi (dots per inch). Many
digital cameras are set to this, therefore by changing the image size (for
example changing 8 inches by 10 inches to 4 inches by 5 inches), while
maintaining the 72 dpi, that will help lower the file size. If you know how
to access your image information (for example, in Photoshop it is in the
"Image Size" folder under the edit menu), and if you see that your
resolution is higher than 72 dpi, I would recommend trying it at the 72 dpi
and experiment with seeing how quickly it opens. I have found this to be
very helpful.
Cookie Davis
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