That's pretty interesting, I totally forgot about dial-up users.
I take high quality photos (for my 5.1 Mp camera) and size them down to 1024x768 and also save them at a lower dpi (80%) so they won't kill my bandwidth.
I put 24 of those on each page on my site. Now thinking about it, I might do two batches for the site as long as it doesn't fill up my storage. I'll have to check what my limits are.
That would be a much better idea for posting and for the 480x360 thumbnails I have on my site.
As for the hard-code resizing in the img src, I did know it didn't do anything to the file size, I just was not being considerate of slower Internet connections.
I still miss the HTML but I can live without it. BBCode is not too much different.
You might want to check on storage but typically it takes a LOT to run you over on the site's storage capacity, I'd be more afraid of exceeding band width serving up images in that size if you have a great deal of traffic. Most of what I've been running on here for images I've been serving off the G-Team server, but we're seeing enough traffic there that I'm probably going to have to look at loading them elsewhere... we're closing on 40,000+ page views this month guys! That's a lot of traffic for a lawn mowerin site!!! Thanks to all of you that take the time to stop in and visit us there!
As for dial up users bnjmik, you definitely want to rethink that approach on your site. Most folks seem to think that everyone in the world has gone DSL, but they haven't. I just saw stats the other day on that matter and dial-up is still considerably in the lead accounting for over 52% of all Internet users, DSL, Road Runner, and Satellite combined haven't surpassed dial-up yet, and they won't for a long time!! The infrastructure simply isn't there in the rural setting for DSL, Road Runner is likewise limited by dial-up's ability to stream data, and satellite is quite spendy with a number of associated drawbacks. And, there's a move to move back to the country by most middle class across America. From a marketing perspective, that would be sorta like Walmart making their stores inaccesible to anyone that couldn't run an obstacle course to get in the door. You gotta think dial-up if you want the site to be useable by all!
