ENTS, Upon rereading I see I did not say to save the resized image as a .jpg file.
Ed "To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again" Ralph Waldo Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:43 PM Subject: [ENTS] Major Website Changes ENTS, If you look at the current update in progress of the ENTS website, you will see major changes. In the past I have always converted the posts made to the discussion list to web pages. The organization has grown four fold since I started this process, and the volume of mail has increased greatly. It is simply too large of a volume of mail for me to continue to keep up with the conversion process. Google groups the messages by threads or topics. I will maintain the website and continue to provide order to the posts, but instead of recopying the posts to the website, I will copy the link to the page where Google has stored the thread/topic. For example this thread address: http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/504a17df1e2327b6?hl=en post is to my post of the Marion Brooks Natural Area, PA. The photos I posted with the note can be seen as thumbnails at the bottom of the first post, and each can be downloaded full size, This link is is on the Pennsylvania Links page and arranged by date newest to oldest. I am archiving copies of all of the post digests sent out daily containing the text of all the posts, and I am archiving the photos ad attachments sent to the group, but these will not be posted individually to the website. For this to work I will ask for some help from each of you. 1) If the topic of a discussion thread is changed, start a new discussion from a blank email with the new topic heading and email it to [email protected] If you read from the website http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en there is a button in the discussion heading that you click to start a blank new post. 2) Embedded photos are fine. I would prefer now that ENTS would embeded or attach small photos to the individual posts and not just upload to the website. That said the photos need to be resized for the ease of viewing. If they are resized to 600 x 480 pixels they should be around <100 kb each, and if they are resized to 500 x 375 pixels they should be around 65 kb. This is an ideal size for posing to the list. Limit the number of attachments as well as their size, unless you have something spectacular to report. Irfanview http://www.irfanview.net/ is a free, easy to use program that will let you resize photos without any problem. Install the program. Click on the menu File, and choose open. Select the photo you want. This will open the photo in the main window. Click on the menu Image, and select resize/resample. In the dialog box that opens up type in the size you want the resized image to be - use either 500 or 600 for the largest side of the image, the other will be filled in automatically. Click OK. Click on the menu File, and select Save As. The file name will appear. Add an a or a 1 or something to the name to change it so the original file is not overwritten. In the dialog box uncheck everything, and set the save quality to 80. Hit the Save button. And you are done. 3) Remember with the website link pointing to the entire thread, any extraneous remarks or comments will be present in the string. I will not be editing out the jokes and nonsense, so whatever you say will be there for posterity. Edward Frank "To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again" Ralph Waldo Emerson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
