How to Resize your Photos Online

The information and useful tips presented on this web page are helpful if you are building your own website using QuickontheNet.com, or using any other site builder solution.

Whenever you download your own photos from your digital camera to your computer, they will be very large in size. Typically, they will be between 2,000 pixels and 5,000 pixels wide. That is much too big for use on a photography gallery website, if you consider that most of the people in the world browse the internet at only 1024 pixels wide.

To put it another way, if you try to display photos at 5,000 pixels wide, the average user is only going to see around 20% of each image, because 80% will be off to the right (and bottom) of the screen area.

It will make your website unfriendly for your website visitors and it will be very difficult for people to navigate around your site.

You can expect the very same issue if you use images straight from a flatbed scanner. Once again, they will be much too large to use on the internet and they will also need to be resized.

What is the Right Size?
We recommend that you make your gallery photos between 300 and 400 pixels wide. Normal page photos can be between 100 and 400 pixels wide.

There are significant advantages to this principle. Your website will look much better and perhaps more importantly, your photos will load and display quickly on screen.

In summary, you should make your photos a smaller size before you upload them to your site.

How to make Photos Smaller
If you want to make your website more-friendly for your website visitors, you should shrink and resize your digital camera photos and make them much smaller.

There are 2 key ways to do this: