The website is nicely laid out and can be an aid for persons trying to identify insects.

But please take pity on us with dial-up access to the Web.

Your large tabled "thumbnails" are simply HTML re-sized versions of your original images and are therefore a very large file size downloading into a small area on the screen.

This takes a VERY long time to display and I am not willing to wait for it. Your photo album will be viewed more often if you resize your thumbs to no larger than 100x50 pixels and re-save the smaller images. The file size on each should be no larger than 10 Kb. The page will then load over 10 times faster and the viewer can select which images to enlarge with a click. Some programs will give you the option of saving jpeg images at a "lower quality" (much smaller file size), and at thumbnail size, you can't tell the difference on the computer screen.

Most other insect plate Web pages are done in this manner.

Its just a record page of the things I have photographed this year in the garden. Perhaps you can look at this site, although I have to add a few of the later pictures that I have taken.

Here is a link that might be useful: INSECTS ETC.

Wow, your photos are gorgeous! Look at the wings on that soldier fly. Awesome.

If you need help downsizing the thumbnails (as Larry suggested), let me know. I do HTML all the time.

Oops, I see now upon closer inspection that they're not really "thumbnails" meaning that you don't click on them to get to larger versions. In any case, though, you could still optimize them to help out dial-up users if you want to.

I have so many sites at the moment I can't keep them all up to date. I add a trip site as well. You can see all the site, even the humorous slide shows that I do at this url.

Here is a link that might be useful: DEREILAS WORLD

Nope, the second link is slow-loading also. It is fine for personal use, but more people will look if it loads quicker.

Hi Larry. I know Dereilas World is slow because of the index page haveing a slide show of the sites, but the 'Insects Etc' url should be OK try this one.

Here is a link that might be useful: INSECTS ETC.

Well, it's all fine, but that Web page is a text list that defeats the purpose of having thumbnails that a person can use to narrow their click choices depending on whether they are trying to ID insects or they are just interested in seeing the prettiest ones. Any mass photo presentation should be set up that way because it will result in the greatest number of click-throughs to the full-size images.

On the other hand, using common names in the text list is good because people are more familiar with them, although this is truer of a bird list than an insect list.

OK Larry Try this one, this is how I plan on doing it. I have the starter pages done but it takes a lot of time when I'm taking photos everyday. Its basically just for my enjoyment, I don't try to ID anything its just a record of the things I find in the garden and no where else (the insects and spiders)Things that people can see if they are interested.

Here is a link that might be useful: SPIDERS

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The above two-cell table shows your presentation of the first spider on the left and a cell on the right that contains a re-sized and re-saved duplicate spider image.

The left image (144Kb, 900x600 pixels raw image displayed as 130x92 pixels)
The right image (4Kb, 130x92 pixels 75% quality factor)
The right thumbnail will display 144/4, or 36 times faster!
Even on a broadband connection, the difference will be noticable.

On anyone else's browser, this test may only work once if the browser stores web images for instant recall. In that case, use the refresh button to redo the comparison.

As you can see, such a small image loses nothing in translation to a smaller filesize. It is really easy to re-size and re-save images.

many thanks for the gorgeous photos- i have put them in my favorites file. min

Hey Larry, I thoroughly agree with you about photo size...
Wanted to throw in another point....when resized, they are not easily picked up for use on someone else's website...they would be pretty much worthless to them.
Diphoto, have you checked into Adobe Photoshop (even has a mini version)?? That is a great program for sizing pics for web use...does most of it for you.
I, too, am stillllllll waiting for the images to load on your spider link....
Nice pics, but definitly should look into the viewer satisfaction side of it.

I don't use any Photo shop although I have a couple of the programs, though not even installed. Lets finish this resizing thing. What you see is what you get. If its not good enough for you, don't look. I just do my photography and enjoy putting simple web pages together.

OK, let's finish it. You are the one who drew this forum's attention to your Web album, so it's not just for your personal use. At least acknowledge my helpful hints about making your site more user-friendly.

Broadbanders, rejoice!!

Diphoto, if you don't know how to resize for optimum web performance, then that is fine...
I am sure that those with high speed connection will be able to view your site with minimal difficulty.

Good bye.

everything loaded fine for me and i love your photos!
thanks for sharing!

Your photos are gorgeous and you helped me identify a very cool wasp that was in my garden today! :)

The 92 pics are now 150 with the one I added today. All taken in the garden this year.