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Don't let your blogs bog us down.
Although blogs make it easy for people without any html experience to quickly get on line, they also open the way for novices to drag the Internet to its knees. Every time I do a Google search, I seem to end up at a Blog. More often than not, the landing page is a hundred miles long, completely unstructured, and sadly lacking the information I'm searching for. I put the latter down to the blog owner removing older content rather than archiving it. Many of the blogs I've visited in recent times have photos and graphics 150 dpi and above. One in particular had a vertical photo 2,400 pixels (4 screen scrolls) deep at 300 dpi. Another, which I'm happy to send you to, has a single landing page 28 megabytes in size. I think that blog is actually longer than a roll of toilet paper. If you are a blogger, please remember that you're sharing the Internet with people who still use dial-up modems. Even in my case where I have 512k broadband, I get shaped to dial-up speeds if I exceed my monthly quota. That happens often, so as I write this I'm being restricted to dial-up speeds of around 50kb a second. If I tried to view the blog mentioned in the previous paragraph, it would take 10 minutes or more to download. There are no rules for creating web sites or blogs, but it's up to all of us to follow some guidelines that will make life for our visitors enjoyable. Here's just a couple: 1. Resample all photos to 72 or 96 dpi. Anything larger wastes bandwidth and your visitor's time. 2. Keep photos small. If they must be large, make them a maximum of 600 x 400. Then they can be viewed on most monitors without scrolling. 3. Don't delete articles of topical interest. Archive them so that people visiting your site years later can still find them. 4. Keep your home page small. Four screen scrolls is too much in my opinion, but that's just me. Create sub-pages and use the menu options offered in your blog software. This means learning how to use your blog software properly, but that's not a bad thing. You can download a nice little free photo editing program called IrfanView to crop and resample your photos. See the Link below. If you visit the Graphics section at my PC tutorials site, there are several short tutorials on how to do both things. It only takes a minute to learn. |
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This intel was contributed by johnk
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