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Miscellaneous functions
There are a range of other important page functions which
do not fit under a particular heading. These are
explained below:
Upload files
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Allows
you to upload (FTP) images with the file extension .jpg and .gif
onto your web site ready to use, but more importantly resizes
them for you at the same time. Image editors like Photoshop will
give superior results, but our system gives you a quick way to
get images ready for your web site for images up to about 1mb
- over this you will need to reduce them first.
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The system remembers your choices when you
come back to the site. That way, if you have a consistent
need to resize images to say 500 pixels across, then this
will not need resetting each time you come to do so.
Thumbnails: There is a choice to automatically
produce thumbnail images, again with a choice of how large
the image is across the page. If you tick this option, it
will remember to do so each time you upload and resize one
or more images in future, until you untick the option.
Thumbnails produced take the name of the original,
with 'thumb' appended before the .jpg file extension, so
that the two images do not clash. Therefore, image1234.jpg
is uploaded and resized to the size you specify, and if
you require a thumbnail, it also adds images1234thumb.jpg
Up to ten images at once can be queued like
this.
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Tip: Don't put spaces in directories or in
file names. It can cause problems with some browsers.
Tip: Be organised and put things into appropriate
directories. That way you can find them easily.
Tip: Large images break web page layouts.
Be sure to put in an appropriate size - normally less than 500
pixels across is great but usually more like 300.
Tip: To upload more than one image, once
you have browsed for the first image, browse a second time and
a second file will be queued ready for upload when you press the
upload button. For really big images, please do one at a time
and be patient for the upload - you are asking it to do a lot!
If it is too large it may time out, in which case we suggest you
use the excellent free Microsoft facility 'image resizer' which
you add into windows for reducing the image size before uploading
it on your web site.
