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How To Make Website Expanded Pic Link Pages More Elegant And Practical
By: Stephen Condren
If you want to make a good impression with visitors of your Website show them good expanded links. To do this you need to spend a little extra time and work but the results are worth it. The author uses Macromedia Dreamweaver to create and edit his Website; however, this practice is applicable to any Web authoring software (tool). Please read my article 5 Easy steps to making Website pic links to see how to set-up and create Web link pages.
First it is advisable to have all of your images in place in the folders you have selected. The full size images in the first folder and the reduced (300) size images in that same folder with all the full size images reduced to 300 dpi. Note, be sure that you have viewed each image (via thumbnails in the My Computer folder) and make sure that they are all up right. Once you start the placement process you will not be able to view what you are setting in place and you will find out after the fact that some (or many) of your images are on their side or up side down.
Make a check list of all your images in your folder by having the folder in ?list? view and then simply push the ?Print Screen? button and copy/paste that image to Word and print it out. It is best to simply keep the image numbers assigned by the digital camera as a reference number. It is strongly recommend that you make this check list and as you place each image check it off ? you will forget. In my carpet page (the Web page that has all the images in reduced size for viewers to pick) I put all the horizontal images on the top half and all the vertical images on the bottom half so that the grids are even and nice in appearance. After you have placed all of your images in the carpet page you are going to design the page so that when a viewer touches the image it enlarges to full scale fit the entire screen.
To get full impact on your viewer have the enlarged image placed in a template. The template should be designed to have your logo and ?Home? link button at the top and your complete address on the bottom. In that way if anyone forwards the image to a friend or anyone else, all of your contact information is attached to that image! At the top include the name of the image and other pertinent information such as price or location, etc. Try and design a pleasant and informative image template. It looks so much nicer when a viewer selects your image and they see it encased in a handsome page with descriptive information rather then just enlarged on white background. Remember each image template is different from the next and you have to ?Safe As? each time to the desired file name you choose.
Further, attach just below the enlarged image a table of links about your site to further increase interest in your site. Not only is this good for promoting your site it also gives you valuable links to your site. Search engines count links from other pages in your site to your home page as valid links and therefore you are driving up your rank status with search engines because you are adding valuable links your Website.
I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park Township, near the University of Chicago. As I child I was always drawing and painting. My father owned an art supply company, Favor Ruhl & Watson, where I was able to get all that I needed to progress in my work. I have always enjoyed portraiture and landscape painting. In High School (Naperville Central High School) I took Drafting from Mr. Pierce. I quickly grasped the principles of perspective and drafting and hence made a career with both Fine Art and Architectural Renderings. In the mid 1970's I joined the US Navy and was stationed on board the USS Midway, CV-41. The Midway was home ported in Yokosuka, Japan (A suburb of Tokyo). While in service I traveled all over Asia including such countries as Korea, China, Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Japan. While in Japan I learned Japanese. I speak German and Spanish as well. I am an omnivorous reader with a love of History and Philosophy. I admire the works of Immanuel Kant, Albert Schweitzer, and Fredrich Nietzsche. In music I admire the wo |  |
