3) Resizing Photos. I really like photos in the post and want to encourage
them. However many people in the group have slower connections. It would be
useful if people would resize the photos if possible before attaching them or
embedding them into the emails. I find a size of 600 x 450 pixels, or even 800
x 600 pixels to be plenty large enough for the ENTS posts. There are
instructions on how to resize photos both in the "Pages" section of the Google
site and in the ENTS section of the website.
Another suggestion might be to include links to images stored on photo sharing
sites such as smugmug or pbase or whatever (although not as nice as say
smugmug, many sites such as flickr let you store pics for free too I'm almost
positive) instead of thinking that the only way is to always attaching
everything directly in the message. Then people can view at large size instead
of itty little postage stamp size which looks pretty small on today's monitors
when something really catches your interest or small size otherwise regardless
of your connection speed (where even smaller images can sometimes bog things
down). Granted not everyone wants to bother setting that up, etc....
-Larry
