What is the best practices way to use images uploaded to SmugMug on blogs - in a reduced file size appropriate for the blog and taking into account all the varying bandwidth constraints blog visitors may have to deal with?
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It really depends on the design of your blog, and your artistic / editorial intentions. More and more people have faster connections, and the display copies from SmugMug that you can embed are very lightweight - of course the bigger you go the more time they'll take to load. If you go to the share button > get a link you'll find three pre-built options for you under the "Embeddable Links" tab, Blog Small, Medium and Large. If you want to go larger, you can adjust the copied text to change -L to -XL, -X2, -X3 (in two places in the link) or you can even create a custom size link of any dimension you choose. I typically embed -L large images in my blog. |
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Something else to consider is the format of your blog and theme. While Andy can use -L images in his Blog, my template is narrower so I use -L. What I found helpful was to measure how wide the image will be and then pick the proper size I wanted. This approach works on fixed width themes and may not work for your blog style. |
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