Posts Tagged ‘Picasa’

Putting Pictures or Graphics on a Web Page

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Picasa
Image via Wikipedia

Adding pictures and other graphics can lift your pages, add colour and life as well as make them easier to read. They can give novices to building webpages a real headache, though. Here is a simple guide.

The very first step to adding pictures is to make them the correct size for the space on your webpage. This means don’t just click on the picture in your html editor and push it to the right size because doing that doesn’t reduce the file size. If you do that and have a jpg that is 2mb, for example, even though the picture looks smaller, the file size will still be 2mb.

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Write Good Content for Your Website

Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Screenshot of Google Picasa 3 - Library View
Image by DanieVDM via Flickr

Whether your website is for your business, to give information on a subject you love or just because you want your own website, it is very disappointing if it doesn’t get an audience so it’s worth taking the trouble to get presentation and content right.

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