When you are managing the content you your own website it is important to maintain the integrity of the website to make sure that your website visitors do not get frustrated and leave before taking action. One major cause of visitors leaving a website is slow loading pages. When working on the content in your website, remember that not all visitors have super fast high-speed Internet connections!
Another concern with websites is the amount of disk storage space you have – in today’s web hosting environment this is not usually a major issue but why waste space? Uploading pictures or images to your website that have not been prepared (optimized) for the web can cause you to experience both of these preventable issues.
The nice thing is, these days you don’t even have to own photo editing software to create perfect web-ready pictures and images for your website!
Simply go to http://www.picnik.com/ (A FREE online image editing tool now owned by Google) and follow their easy step by step directions. You may also want to view some of their premium offerings for creating fancy image borders and other cool effects. If your website editing product does not offer another way to do slide shows you could also use their online tools to create slide shows (this will require that you understand how to place HTML code into your website editing tools).