1 January 2008
Lesson Not Learned
They say that experience is the best teacher. Only if you heed the lesson.
There are many lesson that we need to learn over and over again. History repeats itself, yet we seem never have understood the important things it teaches us.
This is true with me too. Last year, I posted Christmas pictures, specifically about Policarpio St. A few days after, I’ve exceeded my bandwidth.
I should have asked how to manage the images, make them smaller.
Or placed them in a free photo network or a free blog like blogspot or wordpress.
Or asked my webhost to increase the bandwidth during the Christmas season.
Research on better image management and traffic and bandwidth.
But I didn’t.
A few days before Christmas, all this site showed was a nasty 509 error page - bandwidth exceeded.
Maybe you can help.
How large should pictures be?
How do you compute for bandwidth, specifically, how many visits can one picture take?
Does google images or indexing/search results contribute to traffic even if it shows site/page in the first SERPs?
Other tips, anyone?
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
Comments
2 January 2008
Liz said:
Images /pictures should not exceed 20k :d coz that will make 20kbytes times 100+ readers on a daily basis.
Happy new year! Have a blessed 2008!
jun said:
Thanks for the tip Liz.
A joyful New Year to you and your loved ones!
4 January 2008
Joni said:
“Save for Web” na lang ang photos sa photoshop then babaan ng konti ang quality. Choose between PNG, GIF or JPG and see which has the lowest size but still provides good quality of the photo.
And well, you can always switch to another hosting that provides a vast bandwidth. hehe.
Happy new year!
jun said:
Thanks Joni. Can photoshop do batch resizing (am obviously not a photoshop expert)?
Question: If my images turn out in google images, does that count off the bandwidth?
Happy New Year!
PS: PBA08 coming soon.
8 January 2008
julie said:
Not sure if this would help but I resize the photos I upload. I crop them and resize to about 300-350px lang in width then I zoom 100% before I publish. Those are mostly the sizes in my blog.
Jun Asis said:
Thanks Teach. I might give that a try.