[lit-ideas] Re: 500 pixs?
- From: "ckerwan" <ckerwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:15:01 -0400
I posed your question to a techie friend of mine who put a bunch of my
pictures on the Net for a conference presentation. However, I'm not a
computer person, so I may have missed something.
Here's what she suggested:
"No, the best thing to do is resize the image and send it as a zip file, or
upload it so that people can download the file to the computer and view the
pictures that way.
They have to downsize them or at least use thumbnails. If they make the
image to at least 27, you're looking at less than a MEG. I did all or your
Korea pictures, and they were well over 500, and it was only 224K, which is
not even half of a meg."
She also some CD's for me to mail to another group, and that did become
expensive. Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wager" <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: 500 pixs?
There's a third option, the old "middle way" made famous by websites
developed by both Confucius and Aristotle.
PUT your photos on your website, but in a directory that isn't linked
from any public file. Put a robot.txt in this directory so that people
can't search and come across the directory by accident. Then just email
the URL to your friends and neighbors, up to the cost of sending out
CD's. If you were planning on $25 for the cost of CD's to 50 people, and
it would cost $25 to transfer files to 100 visitors, then email the 100
people the URL with a note that this directory will only be available
for a limited time due to cost. This would also probably be less
time-consuming for you than trying to create 50 copies of the CD.
Isn't Confucius wonderful?
Andreas Ramos wrote:
> . . . .As jpgs, my photos images are about
>130 KB each. At 550 pixs, that's 71 MB. If I put all of that on the web and
>invite people to see it, and if 100 people see the pages, that's 7,000 MB
>(roughly, 7 GB) of file transfer. I'd have to pay extra for that amount of
>file transfer.
>
>My personal newsletter goes out to some 4,000 people and my extended
>family's newsletter has several hundred people. Some 50,000 people per
month
>visit my website. So it's very likely a few hundred people would look at
the
>pixs. . . .
>
>At the moment, the best solution is to put the pixs on a CD (about five
>cents) and send it by postal mail (37 cents for the stamp). Regrettably,
>this means only a few dozen people will see the pixs (I won't make more
>copies).
>
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