Upload billeder i korrekt format

  • What image sizes should I upload?

    • Ideally, images should not be more than 100kb without losing quality. (With big sliders it is not always easy to keep it lower but reduce the size to a place where the quality is still good).
    • The pixel size should (where possible) be the size of the space it is fitting into. The image will be reduced down to fit ipads and mobiles but the largest size should not be bigger than it would be used. e.g. a slider may be 1920 x 700pxl in its largest useful size so you should not upload images such as 2500x2500pxl. If you upload them direct from your camera they will always be too large in both pxl size and “kb” size (often being at least 1mb)
      – 1mb (megabyte) = cc. 1,000kb (kilobytes). Ekstra Info om Billeder

      – Danish

    After uploading, you can select different sizes of that image

    Once you click the image to add it into your page you have the option to use different size versions… some are simply a proportion reduction but you can also select cropping sizes. You will get a preview of what you will actually see of the image. This is useful so that you don’t crop out something that may be the focal point of the image.

    Media Archive Offers An Option To Add Different Image Sizes

  • How do I see the image size?

    When you first save your images to your computer, you can always see the pixel size and the “kb” size under “Size” and “Dimensions” as snapshot below. If you cannot see the dimensions column, right click on the top bar where the headings are (Name, Date Modified, Date, etc.) and then scroll down the list to “dimensions” and click on the box to select.

    Størrelse Af Billeder Til Upload

  • Always name your images efficiently

    • Don’t upload any images with the image from the camera, dropbox etc. where they will have names such as “1394230612xwke8.jpg” or “2017-06-15_11-06-10.jpg”. Name the images with appropriate names identifying what the image is and including search keywords. For example, if you were selling furniture, you would name a chair including the brand, colour, style etc. e.g. artwood-modern-leather-black-chair.jpg
    • No danish characters allowed, spell the word out fully, e.g. spørgsmål becomes spoergsmaal.
    • Put a dash as a separator between words, e.g. black leather chair becomes black-leather-chair.
    • Don’t make the name too long and don’t use information like numbers that are not relevant, e.g. black-leather-chair-600x500pxl.
    • On the image further down in the section “Why?” you can see there is consistency and connection between the Filnavn, the Titel and the Alt Text.  This is important for Google’s search engines in validating and ranking your pictures and pages in customer searches.

  • Delete images you don’t use in your media archive

    WordPress is not like the old html websites in that when you upload an image to replace another image, the system overwrites the name of the last one; that means that you keep the same name and path of the image even though you’ve updated the image. In WordPress you cannot give an image the same name twice, therefore if you upload an image and then make a change and try to upload again it will upload the image name with “-1,-2, -3 etc.” added at the end of the image name. That means that ever time you change an image the archive is keeping the last image on file. It is important that you delete any images that you’re not longer using.

    While I am in building a site, there are many images I use as mockup and have to leave in place until the owner makes a final decision… however, before handover, I go through and make sure any images not being used are deleted from the media archive. Housekeeping is important!

    Why?

    1. Many things that happen behind the scenes are read by Google which has an impact on how your website is validated and ranked.
    2. It helps the efficiency of your website “engine” in the same way that you only keep on your desk things that help you move around and use your desk faster.

    How To Delete, Give Title And Alt Text To Images

  • Purchasing images

    It’s important that you don’t use images you don’t have the rights to. If you’re looking for free images, you can start out by going to pixabay.com and unsplash.com. When it comes to purchasing images, we recommend 123rf.com for selection and a good price (although with the introduction of AI offering free options, pricing is increasing). I also use peopleimages.com (cost more but the images are very beautiful and great when looking for something special (and you can buy a single image which is not always an option on other image sites).