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Single web pages are OK but it's more fun to create an entire site. There are a number of ways to do that. The silly way is to recreate the menu system on every single page. Let's not do it the crazy way. You can also use an htaccess file to pre-pend and post-pend your web pages with a header and a footer. A third way is to use PHP to 'include' or 'require' another page. We'll try both of these methods in this Week. We'll cover the how-to later, I just want you to start thinking about your web pages on a larger scale, as a web site.

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Every web designer needs to understand photos and the web.

The file size for photos need to be relatively small and need to fit on the page.

This is a photo taken on a Nikon D5500 at 6000 x 4000 which means it's 6000 pixels wide by 4000 pixels high; which is way too big for the web.

The RAW version is over 30MB and the JPG version is over 13MB.

A good general rule is to keep web photos below .5MB.

To do that, we'll keep the width of our images no more than 1024px wide.

Before manipulating the image, I'm going to duplicate (or copy) it and rename it.

I'm using a basic image editor called Preview that comes with a Mac, to change the size of the web version of the image.

Tools...Adjust size

If I change the size to 1024, you can see that it will be 114KB or .1MB.

If you uncheck the 'scale proportionally' option, you could stretch the image.

Please, please, please, don't use stretched images.

Let's put the image on a web page, by connecting to the server, copying the image,
and adding html to a web page to display it.

Just for fun now let's create a photo that's 1024 x 200.

First I'll open up the image with Preview, command c to copy it.

I'm going to use a program called Pixelmator to do the sizing.

File...New...enter in 1024 and 200...paste...zoom out...drag the corners to resize it
Some programs stretch images when you do this, Pixelmator does not.

...zoom in, and move it to where you want it

...ok...File...Export

I like jpg's for photos, this one is less than 58KB, tiny.

Let's put it on a web page, and voila, there you go.