Hi all,

I haven't done much with web pages and designs in quite a while till recently. I have several programs, and to be honest although I am a dyed in the wool PC person the easiest web design program I've been able to use is iWeb on a Mac. It has some features that are so good that I can't seem leave working with that program until I can find something equal to, or better than, some of the iWeb features.

Coffee Cup Visual designer may have these features, but maybe I just haven't found them. I'd like to know if after you drag and drop a picture onto a blank page, can you then re-size it just using the mouse to pull it larger or smaller IN PROPORTION. I easily found a way to do that with iWeb, Web Easy, and Blue Voda. The only reason I tried those was because I couldn't find the feature in Coffee Cup.

I've been a Coffee Cup customer for years and in the past year or so I bought a lot of the software. However, I'm just not using it. Before I abandon it altogether I'd like to know the easiest way to re-size images in Coffee Cup, and if there is a way to just make them large and smaller, KEEPING THE PROPORTION, but just dragging the corners of the image like the other programs do.

Thank you very much.

Don

After dragging your picture to size right click on it and select scale object to fill picture , that will do it for you, you may have to repeat a few times as it may change the direction you were not expecting.

Afterwards you can use the object tool to see its exact new size, and if you want to insure its ideal for the web, optimised, use something like photoshop or CC web image studio to modify the original down to size, and then select save for web.

Now transfer that one to replace your stretched reduced one and it will be optimised for browsers.

A Mac! I wont go there. It is not a perfect world, Blue Voda is a credit to Vodahost and is a seamless web builder but. There is always a but. You have to convert output. VSD and the HTML editor does output to usable files without the need to convert.

I have just about dumped all other tools except VSD although I use BV for the additional ability it has to use with VSD. The same reason I use WFB even though BV can do that it takes longer and not being much of a web designer that suits me. What Viv says is true and as I said it is not a perfect world. It comes down to horses for courses. There are a number of utilities that will re size images in batches. I cheat, I set my camera to low res and use them. Objects, Screen views whatever.

Don, in VSD, rather than dragging from the corners you 'grab' a side handle and while holding the shift key, stretch to size.
This is OK for small tweaks, but it's best to get your size right in an image editing program before inserting it in your website. If, for example, you have a large image – something over 1000px on either side and over a MB, if you make it smaller within VSD – it might look OK, but the site still has to load that big, heavy image behind the scenes and adjust the size.

I often do as VIV; size the image in VSD to get the ideal dimensions, then delete that one and adjust/optimise the original photo in Photoshop to the size needed.

Thank you Viv, Prism, and Paintbrush. Being able to resize an image with the mouse was one of the hang-ups I was having and you solved that and I appreciate your time in helping.

Several programs were mentioned. I visited the Coffee Cup store and saw the Web Image Studio
and the PixConverter. Each seems to have good features. For basic editing and re-sizing which would you suggest? I use a great free program called Irfanview that will resize but I thought using an official Coffee Cup program might be better for working with web pages in Coffee Cup. I also have Photo Shop, Light Room,and all that fancy stuff but I haven't found anything I like better that Irfanview for the basics.

I'd like your input on picture sizes. I've see some web sites that have a lot of pictures and some will have two columns of images, each image being 350 pixels wide. One site that is based on pictures is called Civil War Album http://civilwaralbum.com/vicksburg/grenada.htm. I like the clean, organized, and consistent size of the images, the accompnaying information beneath them, and the general layout.

I think 350 pixels wide is fine if you have two columns, but I also interested in a good size if just one image in used, centered from left to right. I'm guessing that 500 wide would be a good choice. Irfanview has one default set at 640 pixels, which might be a bit too big.

So...for the web and for for Flickr, what is considered the maximum size for one picture? Height and width?

I just want the picture to be visible to the average size and setting of monitor without having to scroll up or down, or left to right. I suspect that a size that is good for use in Flickr would also be the right size I'd want when having just a single picture centered up on a web site.

As I mentioned, I haven't done this in a while and am trying to get back up to speed with everything. I want to pick a couple of basic sizes to use so I can have everything set the same. I'd like to be able to start an image folder so I can have the right picture sizes that I can use in my Coffee Cup web page design, also on my Flickr site, and even iWeb.

Thanks again, and I look forward to seeing what good ideas you have. This is a great site!

Don

If you have Irfanview you're all set to go for most all image editing you'll need. About the only time it will not be convenient is for doing layering and applying a lot of filters or things like that as it doesn't have the ability to go further back than 1 change if you need to Undo it. Other than that it's quite an awesome little editor and I've actually replaced my Windows Preview with it since the preview window (and quite a few other things) seem to put too much pink in it and messes it up on me.

Tanks Jo Ann. Sounds like I don't need any other editing software.

What are some good standard sizes to edit for? I mentioned 350 pixels wide for two columns and maybe 500 wide for one column. Any suggestions or feedback? I think I could go wider but if I did it would cause the height to increase to such a size that I doubt it would all be visible without scrolling.

What is a good size for Flickr, and what is considered a thumbnail size?

Thank you!

Don