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Web-optimize your pictures

rene_press — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:29:49 +0000

Online users excited to posts their photos, including me when I was just starting to learn the intricacies of the Internet, do not optimize their pictures or images when sending these via email or uploading in photo galleries. This results in a slow opening or in viewing them as email attachments or on galleries.

You often need to compromise between image display quality and the file size if you want them to load faster. You therefore need to optimize the pictures.

There are many ways to optimize your web graphics.

First, if using a digital camera, reduce the size of your photographs because they are always too big.

Second: If you have Photoshop, open the picture and use the “File>Save As” or, in Photoshop CS4 the “File>Save for Web and Devices” command to save an image as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file. Depending on the file format, you can specify image quality, background transparency or matting, color display, and downloading method.

You can also use the Photoshop Image Processor to save copies of a folder of images in JPEG format. You can also use the Image Processor (“File>Scripts>Image Processor> in Photoshop CS4) to resize and convert the images’ color profile to web standard sRGB.

Check your favorite image processor software as most have a way of optimizing or converting your images to Web-ready or optimized graphics for the Web.

WordPress on Facebook

rene_press — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:00:50 +0000

What a happy surprise I find WordPress is connected to Facebook or is it the other way around. Anyway, I am a newbie in Facebook and I am too in WordPress. It seemed my coming days will be pleasantly daunting–learning and writing on both sites. I find both are nice tools to keep my citizenship on the Web. I have been away too long from the Web because of my decision to serve too in government. Rather than work with style in the national government service, I find satisfaction working at the barangay level, the smallest unit of government service in the Phillippines. It is a unique experience. It has given me the opportunity to see first hand the plight of the marginalized sector of our society and contribute to their alleviation. Government service is one reason I saw the need to socialize and blog on the Web.

Hello world!

rene_press — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:30:57 +0000

I’m new in WordPress.com. Before I can go to the passion of blogging, had to learn first what this blogging software can do for me! Just test driving. Blogging will soon begin. Do come back by then. Thanks for dropping by!