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A couple of people have emailed in asking for advice on how to reduce images.

As you know they need to be under 200 k (that's the 'weight' of the image).

To reduce a file size you need to open an image editor, that could be something like Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor or similar. They all work in roughly the same way.

Open the image you want to change. Typically choose from the menu bar at the top and go to:

File
Open

...then select Image then got to Image Size. Select - say - 300 or 400 pixels in width, then go to

File
Save for web

You can then choose to save the image as jpeg or a gif (choose jpeg) and you should also be able to choose the quality of the image and the corresponding weight.

It's always a trade-off between these two factors, a huge image will look great but take longer to download.

You should be able to get good quality images no problem.

It's good practice to always save images with a name that is all in lower case and with no spaces. So don't call your image That Day in the Sun.jpg - call it thatdayinthesun.jpg

Any questions, other hints, this way.