The first thing is, it's not the pixel size that determines loading time, it's the Kb size - in other words, picture quality. If your original photo is, say, 800 x 600 (top limit for free accounts on Photobucket), and you post it with width="400", you'll get a smaller display but the browser still has to load all the bytes of the original, and that may be quite a lot. The best thing is to do a reduced copy using a photo editor (Irfanview is free and adequate). Specify the width you want (can be 500 or 600 for ET, 800 can push the column wide) and also try out lower quality settings till you get a perfectly good picture (to the naked eye), but for as few kilobytes as possible (certainly under 100 Kb). Put the reduced and the good copies on your photo server. Post the reduced one into the diary as a link to the good one. The html is: <a href="[URL of the good pic]"><img src="[URL of the thumbnail]"></a> If you've pre-dimensioned your reduced pic at the required width, no need to use the width attribute in the img command. It's very easy to copy the URLs from Photobucket (and, I presume, from other pic servers).
If your original photo is, say, 800 x 600 (top limit for free accounts on Photobucket), and you post it with width="400", you'll get a smaller display but the browser still has to load all the bytes of the original, and that may be quite a lot.
The best thing is to do a reduced copy using a photo editor (Irfanview is free and adequate). Specify the width you want (can be 500 or 600 for ET, 800 can push the column wide) and also try out lower quality settings till you get a perfectly good picture (to the naked eye), but for as few kilobytes as possible (certainly under 100 Kb).
Put the reduced and the good copies on your photo server. Post the reduced one into the diary as a link to the good one.
The html is:
<a href="[URL of the good pic]"><img src="[URL of the thumbnail]"></a>
If you've pre-dimensioned your reduced pic at the required width, no need to use the width attribute in the img command.
It's very easy to copy the URLs from Photobucket (and, I presume, from other pic servers).
Some people may have read this, others not. ;)
I was suggesting making a low-def copy the size you want to show in this thread (400 or 500 or 600 px wide). If a smaller one's OK with you, that loads even faster.
