[:D]Thanks Eddie,by the way you have an outstanding model railroad[^]Keep up the great work
JIM[:)]
If you right-click on the photo in your signature (at least in IE on a PC; on a Mac you can’t right click, of course), a memu pops up. Click on properties at the botton, and it will tell you the size of the image.
I keep mine at a good size without ruining the photo. Even though I have high spped DSL, when looking at Weekend Photo Fun, it still take a few minutes to load, depending on how many photos are on the thread.
It’s nice to ask for the consideration and even nicer that some people give it. But threads like this are generally a wasted exercise… There are always those that say something to the effect of “since I’m paying for high speed, to [censored] with the rest of you”. It isn’t always a case of affordability or availabilitiy… Sometimes it’s a case of better things to do with the money, like buy trains… In a couple days, this thread will be dead, and the promised consideration will be gone. Doubt me?? Watch this weekends photofun. I’ve seen this too many times to believe otherwise.
Jeff
So far, I don’t post pictures on the internet anywhere so I can’t link to them from the forum. We do not subscribe to cable at our house and Comcast won’t put in a cable internet connection unless you take the TV package. SBC has not yet seen fit to make DSL available at our location. A couple of blocks either way it’s there, but not at our house so dial up it is. However; at my office, which is in a non Comcast service area, I have RoadRunner cable modem. Since I work for myself I can check out the internet and the fourms on the slower days and man oh man, do I love broadband. As soon as SBC makes it available at home it’s in! There are posts that I don’t even notice loading time on here at the office that seem to take forever at home so I think this discussion is very productive.
Would you believe it? Where DSL is available here it’s only $14.95 per month. Most dial up costs more than that.
I totally agree with tony…I too have dial up and it’s really slow and large pictures make it too slow for some of us to navigate in a timely manner… that’s why i have such a small signature icon…chuck
I have resized my pics. Are they OK now ?
- I do agree that for those of us with dial-up web service, it is our problem. In many cases it’s either the costs or availability that keeps us from getting higher speed service.
---------A Verizon rep told me that high speed isn’t available in my area but “may be” in the future. I’m now looking at getting Broad Band from NetZero, which is supposedly faster than standard dial-up. (Any of you all know anything about Broad Band?)
— That’s all I’ve requested guys, not demanded. I don’t believe in ramming ideas down people’s throats. If Forum members wi***o keep their large photos, than that is their choice. Still, I felt it was important to point out that It makes it harder on Dial-Up members. Spare “relaxation time” for working adults and busy teens is harder to come by these days.
– That’s pretty reasonable. I do like looking at some of the cool photos that members have. With a size / memory standard this issue would quickly become moot.
That’s a cable company offering around here. I hear it’s good, but my cable company (Comcast) has yet to make me an attractive offer for it. In fact, with what I pay for cable already, they should be throwing it in for a couple of bucks more a month!!!
Yeah, like that will ever happen. [(-D]
I used to have a dial-up modem, running at only 26.6kbps, so it took forever…But now I have cable, and size isn’t really a problem. I know how y’all feel though, The Coffee Shop used to crash my iMac…
I limit myself to one picture, and they shouldn’t be that big at all. I used to have three pictures at one point though.[:0]
I just went to my update profile page and modified it under the section regarding viewing posts. I selected the text only box, and presto - no more signature pix !!! ( sorry, no offence guys, it was just taking too long to load sometimes). Now the threads come up MUCH quicker.
Mark.
Antonio, I know what you mean with all these huge pictures. I have DSL, and it still takes a long time to load and get through a page with a lot of huge pictures. I try to keep my signature small so you can get by easily.[:D][:D]
I resized my avatar.
You are mistaken.
Posting large photos in a thread or signature is due to ingnorance (excusable), lazyness (inexcusable) or lack of consideration for others (inexcusable). They serve no usefull purpose. High resolution is not needed for viewing on a computer monitor.
If there is some reason for a large photo it should be offered as a link. A smaller version could be posted in the thread to show what the picture is.
Thankyou to those who have downsized their photos.
OK…I plead ignorance…I have NO IDEA how to resize my pics! ( OK, I admit it…I’m a computer dummy! I lived for over 40 years without one, and have no idea what I’m doing with one! )
Is it the actual area of the pic, or what that I need to change? How do I do it?
If someone can fix my pics for me, I’ll gladly change them!
Rotor
Your sig photos are fine, less than 80k total… To resize photos in general here’s a nice simple freebie…
http://picasa.google.com/index.html
Jeff
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I haven’t read this thread in it’s entirety yet, but agree 100% that far too many people misuse (however innocently) the ability to post images with replies. I can understand someone wanting to post a small photo of himself or herself for identification purposes, but anything beyond that is just a time-consuming, space-grabbing, slow-loading waste.
One of the “rules” of web page design is that you intentionally design for the slowest, smallest-screen computer. In other words, you first consider the end user–the recipient of your message–and not your own interests.
Many discussion forums place restrictions on image posting and provide separate areas or albums for image posting. I personally feel that is a very good thing because it leaves the discussion forum open for its primary purpose: discussions.
I’m sure many folks like to show off their capability with a digital camera and they like to demonstrate their cleverness in designing logos for their railroad, etc., but the truth is that this sort of thing temds to limit the ability of some–perhaps many–people to read and learn from a forum in a timely and enjoyable manner. It really would be nice if folks would be considerate of others in this regard.
tommyr, your photos total about 160K, which is still a bit too far up. Resizing them would be helpful. You can always check how much space the picture uses by right-clicking the picture and selecting properties if you are on a PC. Total picture space under 100K is reasonable, but under 50K is preferable.
Rotor, your pictures are fine!. They don’t need to be resized at the moment
Thanks for the tip, I too now read “picture free.”
Dale
I have to say thanks to everyone for keeping this post positive, when i first saw the subject and number of replies I thought there would be some fightin!