Comments on: Rest Day Means Scooter Day…

By: cyclingTips

cyclingTips — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:57:45 +0000

I wish was able to communicate with them Matt. I'd be very interested in understanding how on earth they ever got into cycling in the first place. They didn't speak any English unfortunately and my Vietnamese is limited to words that describe my favorite foods.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:02:14 +0000

Wade, did you get a chance to chat with the guys on the local bunch ride? I'd be interested to see what the bike culture is like in Vietnam, do they sprint to the BP and finish with a latte?

By: AaronU

AaronU — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:04 +0000

You're not the only one. It happens to me as well. Especially yesterday's set of photos.

Wonderful tips on the resizing guys. much appreciated..

Keep em coming WW

By: jonathan ho

jonathan ho — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:07:28 +0000

my parents LOVE seeing these photos, keep them coming CT!

By: The_Butterman

The_Butterman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:02:22 +0000

FOCUS – Less about picture sizes guys and more about the riding and location!! … although a picture of the pothole encountered on the EPIC ride would be a good view. I remember travelling through Vietnam on a holiday and the roads were really average.

By: cyclingTips

cyclingTips — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:41:29 +0000

Thanks guys. I just tested exporting to 72 DPI and the filesize is cut down about 80% without a noticeable difference. It should make a big difference

By: lauren

lauren — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:41:34 +0000

About the photo size thing… they only need to be 72 DPI for web. Even the most basic photo editing tool should let you change your image resolution from 300 DPI (standard for cameras) to 72 DPI.

Also, having them at 72 DPI will stop people from nicking your photos to print them.

By: Wildtribe

Wildtribe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:53:45 +0000

Photoshop is wonderful ~ but is is also expensive, takes up lots of hard disc space and a can be a pain to fire up on low ram pc's – try pixresizer from bluefive.pair.com
It's free and is only 3mbs. As a web developer – I often need to resize images quickly on the fly from different places around the world.
You can retain your great 800px width images but the download speed of the pages will fly. Try and aim for a size of 50k approx per image – but anything up to 100k is acceptable. – once you go over that your site will suffer.

By: Andy Prosser

Andy Prosser — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:23:58 +0000

I'm so jealous..how cruel of you to upload these awesome photo's for poor saps like me stuck in a windowless office (unless you count the Microsoft flavour). No fair! :-P
I think I've just found my next holiday location. Looks like you guys are having the time of your lives. :-)

Oh and as for the photo sizes…I've had the odd one that didn't load first time. Also, by reducing the size first, you increase the number of photos you can upload at those slow Internet cafe's! ;-)

By: Giles P. Croft

Giles P. Croft — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:38:16 +0000

I'm loading slower than normal and one or two of the pics are only loading half way (the rest is greyed out). This may just be me though!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:36:42 +0000

Loading fine here but all the images could be slow if you aren't on broadband

Save for web is a good idea :)

By: cyclingTips

cyclingTips — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:01 +0000

Thanks Huphtur. I'll give it a try. Is the site loading slowly for anyone?