kgeiger.net

Site looks good!
But however your thumbs are generated takes a long time…

THe thumbnails take a long time because the image file is huge. I took them with my 6 mega pixel camera. I think I will shrink them into actual thumbnails so they load faster, would that be a thing worth changing?

^ Let me answer that with a resounding YES! ??

Any images you post to the web should be optimized to a reasonable size. Reasonable in both file size and dimension. In a program like Photoshop or similar, re-size your image to something like 600 x 400 pixels, so that even someone viewing at an 800 x 600 screen resolution can easily take in the whole image. Now that you have an image with reasonable dimensions, reduce the file size considerably. Photoshop will easily let you get the file size well below 100kb without losing visual quality with the ‘Save for Web’ feature. You can get the file size much smaller than that while retaining good quality, but at the very least try to make sure you never exceed 100kb.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the site. Looks quite good other than the image size issue!

2048x 1360 that is the size the image was before I downsized it!

?? I changed them all to 600x 400 or vice versa depending on the picture.

The images load a lot faster thanks for the advice.