Sunny Day! The important thing with photos and illustrations is to size them appropriately during the design of the web page. Make them the size (in pixels) required for your page layout. This can be done with the software that comes with your digital camera. Also select an appropriate resolution if your software allows you. 72 dpi is adequate for on screen viewing unless you want visitors to be able to print high resolution images. Doing these things reduces the file size significantly and allows your page to be loaded quickly, particularly for visitors who are on a dial up connection (like me). If it takes a long time for your page to load visitors will not stay unless you have something they really want to see. This is true no matter how good your HTML coding is. Controlling the file size of your images also allows you to put more on your site if web space is limited.
Words take up very little space no matter how large the font is. I would suggest you use a font size that is easy to read. If your font size is too small visitors just won't take the time to read what you have posted. They will probably just leave. I do when I can't get the old bifocals to focus in. Happy Web Page Authoring! Carl -----Original Message----- From: Willy Leenders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:12 AM To: Carl & Barbara Sabanski Cc: Sundial Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Web Page Authoring Hello Carl and all, Unable in webdesign I started two mounths ago in designing with NVU my sundial website (a description with illustrations and background information of all the sundials of my province). It turns out well. Before long I go online. The great work is the gathering and formatting of illustrations. A little knowledge of html is nevertheless usefull to controll the generated source code. But one learns it by doing. Willy LEENDERS Hasselt Flanders (Belgium) Op 25-aug-07, om 00:38 heeft Carl & Barbara Sabanski het volgende geschreven: Sunny Day! Have you thought about creating your own web site but just don't know how to do it. What's HTML? Heck...I don't know but that hasn't stopped me from developing my own site. I was looking through a brochure from a college located in a city not too far from here. They send these out to those of us who live in the wilderness. They were offering a course on creating web sites and I was able to get the name of the software they were using. And wouldn't you know it, it's free! It's called Nvu and you can find it at www.nvu.com. It has a web page editor that is a simple graphical interface...WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). You will find a Nvu User Guide in the Help tab. If you go to the "Nvu's official bug fix release" page you can download KompoZer, which is based on Nvu but has a list of fixes. KompoZer has a very useful Help file too. I have installed both but have not spent a lot of time using them. Have some fun creating your own web site. Some ISP providers offer some web space as part of their service to you. Mine gives me 15 Mb of space where I can place web pages and any other files I like. You can get a lot of material in a space that size if you are careful (www.mts.net/~sabanski). You can also have your site hosted at a very low cost. Start your very own sundial web site today! There can never be enough. Happy Dialling! Carl Sabanski www.mysundial.ca Get "Hooked on Gnomonics"! --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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