Logging In and Image Handling
About Photos
When considering using images, usually photographs, on your website it is worth bearing in mind the following:
1. Modern digital cameras produce multi-megapixel images which must be reduced drastically in size before they can be used on your website. If you just upload a photo from your digital camera without altering it at all you will find that it takes a long time, and that, if you include it in an article, you only see part of it. A typical digital photo can be 1750 pixels by 900 pixels in physical size which won’t fit on the screen and is about ten times the physical size that you typically require. In addition the file size will be such that the image takes ages to download, which is bad enough on a broadband link but can be agonising on a dial up connection.
2. There are differing uses of the uploaded images which affect how you want to process them. For example
a. On a standard news article you will have some text plus one or possibly two small images. All of the images refer to that particular article so there absolute position doesn’t matter too much.
b. If you want a ‘gallery’ of images to show your candidate around the constituency or a listing of councillors or candidates, then you’ll want the photos to be nicely spaced regardless the size of the browser window and the captions to stay with the individual photos. Also you may well want to be able to click the photo to display a larger image.
Recommendations:
1. Reduce the physical and file size of photos before upload using the free utility ‘Easy Thumbnails’. Click here to see tutorial .
2. See this tutorial on logging in and using images in standard news type articles.
3. See this tutorial if you want to set up a number of images in a gallery, candidates/councillors page.
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