Information about posting pictures
Posted: March 15th, 2009, 8:48 pm
Recently, we were all aware of the need to be a little economical in our use of pictures on the forum. We ran out of server space!
Fortunately for us, webmaster found us more space, but warned that there is not an unlimited supply for server space for our pictures. So, here is what may work better for us. Keeping in mind that we are a forum whose interest is fed by Looduskalender webcams (and others) obviously we have a greater need to post pictures than, maybe, a forum about poetry!
Having a little extra space now, we can once more use attachments. Please post no more than 3 three attachments in one post.
Concerning photo-hosting sites, Image shack seems to be the easiest to use, but watch out for pop-up ads. I have abandoned photobucket in favour of Imageshack. It is easier to use, and we can choose thumbnail pictures which will enlarge to bigger size when clicked - clickable thumbnails. It looks good on the forum and is easier to check all the way through the pages of posts that we manage to write in a day! Please try to keep your pictures within 800 x 600 size range. I know there are special occasions, and will come to that later.
Many will think that it is easier and quicker to use attachments and no-one will object to that. The thumbnail size is set at 500 px width. The original size of the picture appears when the thumbnail is clicked.
Fortunately for us, webmaster found us more space, but warned that there is not an unlimited supply for server space for our pictures. So, here is what may work better for us. Keeping in mind that we are a forum whose interest is fed by Looduskalender webcams (and others) obviously we have a greater need to post pictures than, maybe, a forum about poetry!
Having a little extra space now, we can once more use attachments. Please post no more than 3 three attachments in one post.
Concerning photo-hosting sites, Image shack seems to be the easiest to use, but watch out for pop-up ads. I have abandoned photobucket in favour of Imageshack. It is easier to use, and we can choose thumbnail pictures which will enlarge to bigger size when clicked - clickable thumbnails. It looks good on the forum and is easier to check all the way through the pages of posts that we manage to write in a day! Please try to keep your pictures within 800 x 600 size range. I know there are special occasions, and will come to that later.
Many will think that it is easier and quicker to use attachments and no-one will object to that. The thumbnail size is set at 500 px width. The original size of the picture appears when the thumbnail is clicked.