June 09, 2004
My daughter
This is my lovely daughter. Here's how you put pictures up on FWP as an entry:
After logging in to the writer's login, go to the "upload file." Then follow the default prompts to upload a picture file from your hard drive or CD rom. The next dialog box will give an option to save the file as a new entry. Use that option. For my daughter's pic above, I chose the "save thumbnail" option. The first time I tried this with my picture - to be found in the "My picture" entry - I did not use that option, but I saved the file as a rather small, Web-ready pic.
Rule of thumb is no more than 10K - 30K for a Web pic. Using PhotoShop, resize your photo to no more that 150 pixels wide for a mug shot (head and shoulders) or 300 for a horizontal, maybe 200 for a vertical. Then use the "Save for Web" option and save as a small - no more than 10K - 30K, absolute max about 80K - jpeg. Anyhow, that's what our Web master tells us to do at my job, where we post news and pictures to the Web every day.
Incidentally, the pic of my daughter is 92K because I made a Web pic out of it before I knew how to tweak it with PhotoShop. So, it's an experiment. I don't want to go back and change it now - for fear of losing all this typing! - but if it loads slowly, that's why.
Cheers!
Melanie
Muchos gracias!
Thanks so much for getting my picture up. Jussi asked how I got my picture into an entry. I honestly can't remember. It seemed so simple at the time. I am now trying to retrace my steps and recreate that unique circumstance that led to this discovery!. Will post results soon. Cheers! - Melanie