IT help please/pics?

[Jayne]

Hi,

Had a little trouble with the pics on my BowBiz site today. I placed an ad on for someone who had lots of pics to go on, took ages to load them in. When I view the ad on the web on my site, it freezes my computer?

Then I get a message saying AOL not responding?

If anyone else on AOL could take a look at that one ad and let me know if it does the same for them, if it doesn't I think I will have to contact Tony.

The ad is in the for sale section, Land (building plots), click on the view photos bit.

Thank You

Jayne :D

[freecybermag]

Jayne I hate AOL with a passion. They are more trouble than good. If I were you the first thing I would do is change your Internet Provider.
Secondly your pic size maybe to big. I learnt this week that if I load a picture and then change it's size manually that doesn't reduce the file size so it still takes a long time to load but if you use Pix Resizer (remember you downloaded it last time) then that reduces the file size and makes it quicker to download.

Hoep this helps Birthday Girl :D

Cheers

Chris

[Jayne]

Oh I didn't know that Chris, Thank You.

I'll have to learn the pix thing first, I had one go and mucked it up doing something else :lol:

So just to check i've got it right, I have to make all the pics smaller and load them in again?

I will try.

Jayne :D

[freecybermag]

You know the size of my magazine on the home page, well they are 60 x 75 (originally I reduced the size manually and they were still 275 x 468 no matter how it looked on my web site)
On the pix resizer make sure you untick "Maintain apsect ratio" and then enter the size in the two white boxes.

Let me know if you have trouble doing it (the resizing I mean) :lol:

[Jayne]

Big Thank You Chris, i've figured out the pix thing and changed the pictures on my site, it works fine now...feel much better now, I thought i'd broken something :lol:

Jayne

[APRogers]

Jayne

At risk of stating the painfully obvious, and with no intent to insult or patronise, web pages aren't word documents - they work entirely differently.

In Word, importing an image embeds that image in the document and, when your resize the image, you are physcially changing it.

In web pages, you don't ever import an image, you just make a space for it and a reference to the image file, which you must also upload or it won't be visible.

Changing the size of the space does just that, and has no effect on the file at all. To make the image smaller for the web, you must resize it in some other software.

Windows comes with Microsoft Photo Editor which is good enough for most.

Regards

Alan

[Jayne]

Thank You Alan,

I am still learning, so all info' is good info. I do pick many things up pretty quick, I was just getting muddled with the pictures. I have downloaded this great little gadget to re-size pics, today was the first time i've used it properly, I had forgotten I'd downloaded it until Chris reminded me :D

Jayne