Anybody use Geocities?

Leeana · Dec 25, 2005

I have been trying for weeks to upload pictures onto my website. I use the free Geocities hosting. I have even tried to upload only one and clicked the upload button ...then went outside and did barn chores which took over an hour and came back in ...still was uploading. Back when i had my smallville site on there a couple yrs ago ..it uploaded a picture in about 50seconds. These are pictures uploaded to my computer off a digital cameria though ...that could be it, but im no computer person.

Anyone have any idea's?

Thanks

&

Merry Christmas

Leeana

txminipinto · Dec 25, 2005

My site is with Geocities. It sounds like your computer may be a little slow. You may need to upgrade your computer (or your geocities service). Other than that, I can't help you!

Lewella · Dec 27, 2005

Your photos are probably too large. For a website you don't need pictures over 75 dpi and over a few inches by a few inches. A photo that is under 100 kb will upload to geocities in just a couple of miniutes even on a slow connection.

Leeana · Dec 27, 2005

I think thats it, my digital cameria uploads pictures that are huge and i cannot upload them on most sites. I will probaly just have to print them off and scan them (now i have to figure out this scanner

).

Thanks for your help

Leeana

Farmhand · Dec 27, 2005

If you have the photo's on your computer, right click on one of them, go down to properties and see how big they are. If you are using XP when you click on a picture, on the left hand side of the screen it should show a preview and tell you how big the picture is. If you have XP there is a "free power toy" to resize pictures for email or to upload to websites.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

Get this one Image Resizer

Farmhand · Dec 27, 2005

If you install Image Resizer and it does not work the first time

Click on Start, click on Run and type the following in the opening textbox:

REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

and press the Enter key

Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...

You can also resize photos before e-mailing them.

Image Resizing

A. To decrease the size of the file for e-mail, web publishing etc.

Go to this site and download the free Image Resizer. Exe file in one of your

folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/dow...s/powertoys.asp

Once in your folder, double click on it to install it.

Once installed, you right click on a photo file (or on a group of selected

photo files).

Click on Resize image on the opening menu.

A window will open, select the size you want.

New files will be added in your folder, same name as original file name but

with the word (small) added.

The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu

after you right click on the file or if you see it, it may not work. If so,

do the following:

Click on Run, click on Start and type the following in the textbox:

REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

and press the Enter key.

Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI.

Also, you can download a free batch converter from here to resize pictures

and edit photos:

http://irfanview.com/