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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on August 10, 2007, 9:25 am
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Scott Bryce wrote:
> dave8510smith@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Also, all my digital pics are much bigger than a monitor screen (more
>> than 2000 pixels on the long side), so would I have to reduce them
>> all with Photoshop before uploading them,
Yes, but not necessarily with Photoshop.
>> or do websites do this for you these days?
A web site will not reduce photo size, unless you get into some serious
server-side processing.
> You would need to reduce them. What you probably want to do is show a
> page of thumbnail images, each one being a link to a larger image.
> How large? Large enough to show the detail you want to show without
> eating up a lot of bandwidth.
A max-width of 800px would probably suffice for detailed photos.
> If you don't have Photoshop available to you, there are other less
> expensive programs that you can use to do the reductions.
The ever-popular Irfanview comes to mind. It's free.
http://irfanview.com/
> As far as the site itself, do you have a friend who is willing to put
> this together for you? I don't think a blog or photoshare site format
> is going to work for you.
Perhaps the OP could look at http://homesteadnet.com/ and pick a house
to see layouts. Most internet-savvy buyers are familiar with this style
of layout for a home sale. My own house is listed there at the moment.
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