Tripawd Kitty Bloggers Sharing Their Feline Amputation Tales
Tripawds three legged cat bloggers share stories of feline cancer and kitty amputation, recovery treatment care and progress.
Tripawds three legged cat bloggers share stories of feline cancer and kitty amputation, recovery treatment care and progress.
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If you have signed up for a free Tripawds Blog account, you have been given 25MB of server space for uploading photos, PDF files, etc. This space can be consumed quickly with large image files.
To make the most of your free server space, pay attention to the size of files you upload and understand that anything over 150± kb is often overkill for image display in your blog. We have found that an image size of 400×300 (@ 72 dpi) works well with most blog themes.
Another option is to keep your photos hosted on an online photo sharing site like Flick’r or SnapFish. You’ll still be able to place the images here on your blog, but the actual digital file is kept on those sites instead of in your Tripawds Blog media library. This can save you from exceeding your upload space allotment.
For additional tips, read our post about how to use online photo sharing sites to make the most of your free blog.
Of course, the easiest way to avoid quickly filling your file quota is to upgrade your blog with a Tripawds Supporter subscription. This can be done at any time via the Supporter tab in your blog dashboard.
But, for all Tripawds Bloggers – either with free accounts or Supporter subscriptions – who just want to manage images with their own easy to use Media Library, we have some some tips to keep your file sizes down to a minimum.
Never upload an image directly from your camera to the web. Original digital photos are too big to publish online, and will use up your file size allotment quickly.
To shrink your photo file sizes down, many photo editing software applications have a push-button option that will optimize files for “web” or “e-mail” use. Windows XP and Windows Vista both have this functionality built-in. But to re-size images manually and determine their file size, follow these simple steps:
Keep in mind that these steps apply to any image file you upload to your blog. You cannot crop or re-size images after uploading. A little arithmetic can help put things into perspective. If you upload 1 MB images – 1,000 kb – you may only be able to upload 25 photos. On the other hand, you might be able to upload 500 images at 50 kb each.
We hope this information helps you make the most of your free Tripawds Blogs account. But remember, if you don’t want to take the extra step to optimize your file sizes, just upgrade your account with Tripawds Supporter subscription, and you can have a full gigabyte of upload space! Simply visit the Supporter tab in your blog dashboard. Upgrading via your dashboard will automatically remove the banner ads from your blog too! Supporters also get plugins for embedding blog videos and much more. We’ll talk about all that soon.
How to make the most of your free Tripawds Blogs account by hosting images on third party photo sharing site.
Codie Rae upgrades Tripawds Rule! blog to become official Tripawds Supporter.
Special thanks to biffngab for upgrading to become first official Tripawds Supporter blog!
After working hard for months to implement WordPress MU here at tripawds.com, my people were quite excited to announce the new free Tripawds Blogs. Apparently, however, we haven’t quite worked out all the kinks … yet.
Some users may recently have noticed a slow down in website performance or the site being offline at times. While we specified a robust new server to handle the WPMU migration, we were not prepared for the mysterious processor load spikes we are currently experiencing.
What does all this technobabble mean for Tripawds? Only that we ask for your patience while we work to resolve these issues. You may continue to notice changes around here while we hunt down the gremlins.
Our primary goal is to ensure the Tripawd Discussion Forums remain fully functional and that members can continue to share their stories in the new Tripawds Blogs. Aside from that, we’ll be doing our best to optimize performance, and that might mean abandoning certain features.
If you experience trouble, please report it with as much detail as possible in the Tripawds Tech Support forum. Please bear with us and stand by for important updates. Thank you ever so much for your patience and continued support.