Digital Pictures to Keep your Local Band Web Site Fresh - To The Web
By James Blakely
Web sites are made to be updated frequently.
It is an inexpensive way to get information to your audience.
The more they are updated the more people will look at them.
We want to set up an area where our photos are constantly updated.
We need a gallery section to place our files.
The web is based on bandwidth.
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time
Phone lines are small communications channels so they have smaller bandwidth.
The internet has a lot of people using phone lines.
Pictures are notorious for being large files.
They take up a lot of bandwidth to view.
We need to optimize our pictures to make them load quickly.
Here are some tips that you should follow to keep your site from taking too long to load.
Web pages should stay around 40k per page. Don't put too many pictures on one page.
Remember that the original design of your site is also taking up bandwidth.
Golistenlive.net's design, by itself, takes up 30k.
All pictures and text added will be lumped on top of that 30k.
Put text captions on your pages to explain the pictures.
This will also help search engines index your page correctly.
Picture pages without text hurts your web site's performance.
Use Jpegs for photo compression.
Jpegs were created to squeeze those large pictures into a small file size.
Stay away from the gif compression with photographs.
Animated gifs with photographs are very large in files or they are poor quality.
You should only work with photographs in the gif format if you have had graphic design experience.
Try to get individual pictures under 10k.
Remember that Bandwidth can kill a site. If it takes over a minute to load each page, most people will leave.
You want a site that invites people to stay and look at your information.
Frequent rotation or addition of pictures to your site will improve your traffic.
You will get more return visitors.
