Hi
I just thought that this might interest folks.
I was asked to build a web site for a friend of a friend with almost zero computer skills. I have always avoided using large images so this is the interesting part.
The images used arrived as 8mb files, I reduced the background images to 1600px by 1200px with a file size of around 200kb. Broadband has improved so much that they work. OK there is a time lag and the site would be better if it loaded faster. The background images resize with the screen and have been tested on a 30inch screen. In fact the larger the screen the better the site works - there is a button to clear the text if using a small screen.
www.easbyhall.com
This is still work in progress. Just an indication of how things have changes in a short period of time.
Regards

Hi Mark,

That's a gorgeous website and an even more gorgeous location! After looking through the site, I definitely want to book a night there with my family. How I wish there was a place like that around here :)

Kind regards,
Nick

I've been using www.webresizer.com to resize and optimize my images. It's proven to be very effective and a major time saver. I wonder what the result will be if you tried obtimizing your images with it.

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi
Thanks that is a fantastic tool that I did not know about. If my client (that sounds as though I charged him a fee!!) had know about it I could have instructed him on how to send the images by e mail. I have bookmarked the page. We could do with a little section on this web site to deposit these gems.
Regards

I started working on a "Resources" page a while ago, but I ran out of time. Once things slow down a bit more, I can jump on it again.

What I would really love is to have a student-led resources page where everyone can chip-in and contribute to help each other out, but I'm not sure if there's a Joomla extension that would work well for it. Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi Mark,

I really like that website. It's the beautiful background images that really make it extravagant. :)

Nick - Thanks for that image resize link. It is now on my favorites bar!

Mark wrote:Tessa wrote:
You're welcome for the link, Mark and Tessa! :)

Kind regards,
Nick

Thanks for the webresizer link Nick, and nice site Mark, yes the images really make the site impressive. 200K for images that big is pretty good I think.
Does the webresizer tool give the ability to choose the quality of optimization like photoshop does?
-Scott

Yes it does. I check it at 50% and the image was still quite good.
(Nick)
I do not know of an extension it might be simpler to just have a topic for useful addons then when it gets to a dozen or so covert them to a page. Some might be added to the newsletter.

No worries at all Scott. I tell you what ... could make this into new post?

You can copy-and-paste it right into here: www.ostraining.com/support-forum/cooler/

There's a lot of good ideas there and there's a lot we can act on.

Hi Steve,
I mentioned it because Nick was talking about a 'resources' tab he was working on that he hadn't finished earlier in this thread.
I moved my post, they are just ideas, i didn't really want to make a big deal of it.
-Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks!

We really value our users' feedback, so we want to give it the utmost attention! :)

Kind regards,
Nick