Did you know that if you resize an image on a
page it does not change the size of the image downloaded?
I found this out a while ago when I added a high resolution photo to a web
page. I resized it significantly and then published the page to my web
server. When I browsed to the page on my web server it took a long time to
download the photo. I then realized that I needed to resample the image
after resizing it. Fortunately Microsoft FrontPage has great support for
resizing and resampling images.
To try out this feature bring up a page and
add a large image to the page. Resize the image and then right click on
the image and select the "Pictures Properties..." menu item. You will note
that the "Specify size" check box is checked. This means that the picture
is not the original size and has been resized. Now cancel the Picture
Properties dialog.
Picture Properties Dialog
To resample the picture, we will be using
the "Resample" button on the "Pictures" Toolbar. First make sure the
Picture Toolbar is available. It usually is positioned at the bottom of
the screen as illustrated below. If you cannot see it, enable the Picture
toolbar via the "Tools->Customize..." menu. Then select the "Toolbars" tab
and check the "Pictures" checkbox.
Now lets resample the image making the
image that same size as it appears on the page. With the image still
selected, click on the Resample icon at the bottom of your screen as shown
below. This will tell FrontPage that the image is to be re-sampled when
saved.
Resample Icon Selection
Now save the file by clicking on the Disk
Icon in the upper left section of FrontPage or by pressing ctrl-s. The
following dialog will appear:
Save Resized Image Dialog
You can rename the image by using the
"Rename" button. It is recommended that you add a character sequence that
denotes that the image has been resized, i.e., table48.jpg would be
renamed to table48_sm.jpg. If you don't rename the image, the original
image will be overwritten. Using the "Change Folder" button, you can
which folder you saved the images into for later use. It is recommended
that you save your images in the images/ folder. When you are through with
the changes, click the OK button and the revised image will be saved.
Now that the image is resampled, the
download time will be reduced. You may find the resampling quality of some
GIF images to be unacceptable. In this situation, we recommend your use an
image editor to resample the images as discussed in the next
FrontPage How-to tip.
