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what's the best sort of site for advertising my home? dave8510smith 08-10-2007
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Posted by dave8510smith on August 10, 2007, 6:07 am
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Hi - I'm thinking of selling my home, and want to make a site that has
pics of the house and the neighbourhood (lots of them), plus a map
showing where each pic was taken, plus info on my home and the
neighbourhood.

Then I'd just need to put the web address in any newspaper ad I make,
and people would be able to learn all they need about my home without
my having to pay for a long and expensive newspaper ad.

Trouble is, my only attempt at building a website (using GoDaddy's
site-builder) took weeks and was a disaster.

I was therefore thinking about either a blogger site like Blogspot,
because I notice they allow you to upload pics, or one of those 'photo
share' websites. But which would be best for my purpose?

I'd be grateful for recommendations of particular sites here.

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, or do websites do this for you
these days?

Thanks in advance


Posted by Scott Bryce on August 10, 2007, 8:43 am
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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, or do websites do this for you
> these days?

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.

If you don't have Photoshop available to you, there are other less
expensive programs that you can use to do the reductions.

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.

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.
<g>

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Posted by DoobieDo on August 10, 2007, 11:16 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.
>

http://resizepic.com/

there y'go... some serious summat or other ;p



Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on August 10, 2007, 12:46 pm
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DoobieDo wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> Scott Bryce wrote:
>>> dave8510smith@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> 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.
>
> http://resizepic.com/
>
> there y'go... some serious summat or other ;p

That works, but there is one serious flaw. :-)

It requires that the user know - or be able to calculate - the aspect
ratio, and enter the correct height to match the width, else there will
be skewed pictures out there.

IOW, if I have a 640x480 graphic, and enter width: 400 and height: 100
at this site, I get an unusable result. All graphic manipulation
software that I have used (such as Irfanview or The Gimp) automatically
recalculate the second number. Something to consider...

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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