Hello from the South

[dboras]

Hello
My name is Debbie, my company name is D'Bora's
I am a photographer from the South- Louisiana
I am glad to be here, always looking for fresh new ideas, needed a new forum, glad to be here
I have two daughters - grown up - and in college
I am married and my other hobby is our harley-motorcycle

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

Welcome.....

Got a website?

:)

Ahh found it...

http://www.dborasphotography.homestead.com/

the photo of Jackson Frederic, took ages to download..

I think you've not resized it for the web, takes ages
to view... or perhaps it's just me...

[dboras]

Hello George

I have cox digital cable and my download is no time
it comes right up on my monitor
what do you have dsl or cable?
Good to meet you, hope to see you around

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

ah ok... pehaps it's my broad band service...

:)

[Choogster]

slow here too. the reason it takes so long to load is that its a huge picture being resized while its loading. if it was that actual size it wouldn't take any time to load.

[Dotty.c]

HI took a while to download, but worth the wait, nice site, do you get asked to do a lot of maternity, never seen it done before.

[tonymidd]

Hi, I liked the maternity section tho as a male that could be a difficult market.

[england1965]

ah ok... pehaps it's my broad band service...

:)


Took ages for me on a 2MB ADSL ...but when you look at the image it's a 4KB GIF ....Hmmmmm strange! :confused:

[DennisB]

Each of the three images on the page are named tp.gif, which seems strange.

A quick glance at the source code for the page shows it is very busy. I suspect that the image is large when transmitted but then downsized by a script running on the recieving computer to make it fit the aperture.

[Stemmy]

A bit slow here too (The picture that is)

[tonymidd]

Strange; running FireFox on a 2Mb ADSL it was quite quick. Not blinding fast but not slow enough to make you navigate away from the site.

[Stemmy]

seems a bit wierd. The image is a Gif. Only 4k

I saved the image to my comp and opened it in PS.

the image is 1pixel by 1pixel :confused: :confused:

I think it needs re-saving as a Jpeg

[Kirsty]

it loaded ok for me- exception?! hmm

A lovely selection of images here. like em :)


Ok and i have a question to ask what exactly are seniors in the USA?? :confused:

[Choogster]

Each of the three images on the page are named tp.gif, which seems strange.

A quick glance at the source code for the page shows it is very busy. I suspect that the image is large when transmitted but then downsized by a script running on the recieving computer to make it fit the aperture.

The image is actually called jackson3_009.jpg and its 2339x1970 resized to 270x190. THATS why its taking so long to load.

[dboras]

Hi all

Thanks to all who viewed my website, we have really just started the maternity thing, I love it, it is so special, not all will like it, but its coming around. Seniors is the high school and college graduates, that is very popular in the states.
I really dont know about the picture sizing thing, I shoot in digital, fine and large, and I do resize it when I post it on the website, but its the only way I know how to do it, would love for someone to tell me differently. I save all pictures in jpg, dont really know what I am doing wrong
please shed some light to this resize problem
Just added new maternity photographs from this weekend,they came out great, check it out
thanks again
dbora

[Choogster]

what 'homestead sitebuilder' has done is taken the original picture, uploaded that and 'told' the website that it should be seen smaller. That means the full size image is there but it hasn't been resized - only appeared smaller.

You need to resize the image before you add it to the site, then 'sitebuilder' wont be able to do that.

[dboras]

choogster

What is the size that a picture needs be for loading on website. When I went into my program, it ask for pixel dimensions,do you know what the pixel dimensions should be? and when I changed that the resolution changed, any suggestions about the size the picture
thank you for any suggestions
dboras

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

Each of the three images on the page are named tp.gif, which seems strange.


Looks like some copyright or protection to stop people downloading the image under it...

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

I save all pictures in jpg, dont really know what I am doing wrong please shed some light to this resize problem


Ok....

what I do is have one directory...

MYPHOTOS

in it I have two further directories..

ORIGINALS
and
WEB

Web is a copy of originals but i go through them
and resize them to 600 to 800 width/height.

which paint/image programs do you use?

[dboras]

the software that I use is Microsoft digital imaging suite 2006

I have my photos stored in diffrent folders on my desktop
I am going to see if I can resize it ot 600-800

[dboras]

George

When i went to resize the picture, when i put in 600 the height went to 505 with a resolution of 18
is that correct?

thanks
dboras

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR ORIGINALS!!!!!!

Don't use your originals....

try it and upload it here...

see the manage attachments button below

a normal photo when resized for the web is usually about 600 x xxx

depending on where you want to put it and what's it's for...

600 x 400 or some like mine are 600 x333

[dboras]

Meet Jackson
It let me upload it, and its the one that I resized to 600/505 it says is70.1 kb
is that right? :)

thanks
debbie

[dboras]

I changed the website picture to this size, can you view my website and see if it loads differently
thanks
debbie

[Choogster]

you're getting there but 800x600 is still way too big.

[Choogster]

it needs to be height 216 width 256 (as your website has created it).

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

Yup... Now you need to resize those on your website to the size you want them to be as the rest of the guys says above...

the smaller the image, the smaller the file size (kb) and the faster your site will load... customers then won't get bored waiting and see your lovely pics quicker... :)

Easy when you know how...

[dboras]

Amen, I think I got it, I will change all new photographs
that I put on from now on, some of those pictures I had on my website I just scanned and dont have any more, but from here on out I am a 256x216 girl! :D

Thank you, Thank you